single photos Resistance is futile

My colleague Paul Spruit wanted to take a nightshot image with his digital camera, after we'd been working for a client until about midnight. Since the weather wasn'tso good, we decided to try an indoor shot of a few servers and some networking hardware instead.

We used Paul's Pentax Optio 330 in manual mode: ISO 200, 15 seconds at f/2.6. Stack a fewboxes as an ad hoc tripod replacement, leave the lights on, focus, switch the lights off, take the picture.

I should add that this photo is mostly Paul's work. I merely switched the printer on, operated the light switch and did some Photoshop afterwards (crop, levels, a very little bit of saturation, and an unsharp mask).