Oh Zero Hundred Hours

This work by Adam M is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.

I was still packing for a kayak trip when midnight rolled around, so I took the opportunity to have another crack at my eleventh hour photo (though at the opposite side of the clock, this time).

Pentax K-x - 3 sec - f/? - ISO 200 - ~ 30-83mm

Lighting, strobist info.

Used GIMP to scale and watermark. Could have done with a levels adjustment.

I didn't use the flash for this one, instead I used bulb mode, zoomed in to compose, zoomed out, then started zooming back in, starting the exposure immediately after I had begun zooming. Once I reached fully zoomed in I left the exposure running for a second (approximately) and then released the shutter.
The result is that some light registTechnical Comments ered on the sensor while the lens was zooming, but more light registered while it was stopped at the end (more for any one spot, anyhow).
I like this one much better than the first, but there's still a lot that could be improved. I think next time I'll try half filling the frame with the watch, and then zooming in further. This should put the white streaks from the writing bursting out of the watch, rather than into it. I'll also put a lot more effort into centring the lens (all the trails point to the bottom left of the watch in this photo).