Audi lights up for the shortest day

AUDI UK has created a stunning series of low-light photos to celebrate its success this year, just in time for the shortest day of the year.

The seven photos use a technique called ‘light painting’, where a stationary object in the dark is lit up by a small hand-held light to selectively brighten areas over a long exposure period to eventually create an unusual-looking end result.

To the trained eye it looks like Audi has supplemented the photographer’s torch with static lighting to increase the beauty of the end result, but there’s no doubting their success.

The cars involved are the S6 Saloon, RS5 Cabriolet, S5 Coupe and the A3 three-door hatchback.

December 21 is the shortest day of the year, with less than eight hours of official daylight. London will see sunrise at 8.04am and sunset at 3.53pm.

By Press Association reporter