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This picture was taken during an arts performance at the musical fountain on the island of Sentosa of Singapore. The camera used is the Olympus D580. The picture looks very bad, but some people might say it looks artistic. :) Take a look at the region marked by the red rectangle showing the performer on the stage. Because the performer was moving very fast, the camera is not able to deal with such a situation. This is because the exposure time of the camera is longer than the movement of the performer, casuing multiple versions of the performer to appear in the picture. This is also the result of distortion introduced by the camera. The exposure time is 1/6 sec. The reason as to why the exposure time is set longer is probably because the camera was set to night-shot mode.

If you look at the night sky of the picture, you will find that it is very noisy too. It would be better if the camera could take night-shot pictures without the unnecessary distortion of objects caused by fast movements. Another desirable feature is a lower signal-to-noise ratio for the output image.