One of our Christmas Books is called On That Special Night. I was starting to put away the Christmas things and saw this book and the tree. I had to try and make one of those longer exposure shots with the lights of the tree making flared out star patterns. I love how those images look. I had been meaning to get over to La Salette and make some more of those with the lights there, however with the incredibly warm weather and all that we have been doing during the holiday we haven’t gotten back over to take photos. I also haven’t felt super holiday spirited because there isn’t any snow, not that I want to be shoveling or anything like that. The lights just look so much better with snow on the ground.

To get the star like effect in the image I used an F22 aperture. This creates te effect when shooting for a longer period of time. I set my ISO to 100 and that made the time the lens was open set to 30 seconds which not only make the star effect but makes the image sharper. I took some shorter exposure shots but the tree wasn’t as sharp.