A long exposure you play with your hand. Your photo is the film.. the light comes from your own highlights.
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HoldThe shutter opens and light starts streaming. The longer you hold, the more it builds.. the counter at the bottom is your exposure time.
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Drag while holdingSteer the light. It follows your hand, like a camera moving during a long exposure.
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Hold on one of her lightsIt charges up, then ignites into a burst with a shockwave. Its star spikes grow with the exposure.
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Touch the lakeRipples run across the water and catch the sky.
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Keep holdingHer own light goes to the max first. Then, from the middle of the flare arcs, the whole frame is drawn into a vortex of light.. the other side.
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On the other sideHere the photo becomes a whirlpool of light, born in its own flare arcs. It sinks into a dark eye, its arms turning slowly while motes of sunlight spiral down the throat. Every so often the light gathers into the eye, it flares, and a rainbow shock ring rolls out across the whole vortex. Tap to send a swell of light through it, drag to push the swirl. Let go here and it stays alive: after a few quiet seconds the text fades, ready for a screen.
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Let goThe shutter clicks shut and the piece freezes exactly where you left it.. halfway or fully across. Hold again to go further, double-tap to return to the photo.
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Leave it aloneAfter a minute untouched the photo turns into the vortex by itself, stays alive there for two minutes, then comes home and rests again. Touch it at any moment to take over.
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Every bid leaves a lightEach bidder's light lands on one of her own highlights and stays. The more someone bids and the higher they go, the brighter it burns.. the winner brightest of all. In the last hour the light turns to blue hour.
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3 taps, then hold 2 sAfter the sale her photo stays exactly as she made it. This hidden gesture brings the auction back: the whole sale replays on her photo, every bidder's light arriving in order. Double-tap to go back.
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Move the cursorLens ghosts drift across the frame, as if the camera turns with you.
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Double-clickClear the film and start again.
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Test auction with made-up bidders. '+ new bidder' always brings a new collector (one bid each looks alike); 'outbid one bids again' builds the ranking. Keys: B new bidder, O bids again, E end, F sold demo, R reset, A auction view, C clear the light.