Dark Photography School

In my previous article I discussed ways you can create light trails by rocking the camera on the tripod when the shutter is open. Almost as an afterthought I mentioned that

If you’d like to get especially adventuresome, you could combine zoom with tilting the camera while the shutter is open

My demonstrated lack of context has prompted me to begin a new series. This is the first of many everyday examples of how you can utilize your lens’s zoom feature while leaving the shutter open. The first part in this series is titled Window Shopping because the two items featured were spotted in shop windows late at night.

EXIF: 100 ISO, 1.5 sec., f/22, 28mm focal length, flash off

Can you tell what I used to create the star burst in the photo above?
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