Posts Tagged ‘Long exposure photography tips’

Daylight Long Exposure Photography Tips

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Long exposure photography allows you to capture movement in a still photo, rather than just freezing a moment in time. You can capture silky smooth moving water, or clouds blurring as they move across the sky. Even blurred trails left by people as they move about.

In low light conditions, long exposure photography is quite easy. There's not much light, so exposure times will necessarily be long. But in daytime there is lots of light, and getting a shutter speed slow enough to blur anything but very fast movement can be almost impossible.

Daylight Long Exposure Photography Tips

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Night time Landscape Photography Tips

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Most landscape photography is carried out during the day, particularly during the 'golden hours' of sunset and sunrise. But have you thought about taking landscape photos after the sun has gone down, when it's dark?

Night time Landscape Photography Tips

We don't see many landscape photos shot at night, mainly because of the extra effort that has to go into a night photo. But landscapes at night can make for some great photographic opportunities.

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Written by Discover Digital Photography

December 8th, 2013 at 12:49 pm

Light Trail Photography Tips

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Light trail photography involves capturing long exposure photos of moving lights, usually cars moving along a road at night. As the cars move across the frame, the bright headlights (and rear lights) create a long streak. Because the cars themselves are not well lit, and move across the frame, they do not appear in the final image, just the trails left by their lights.

autobahn at night featuring light trails left by car headlights
autobahn by kainet on flickr (licensed CC-BY)

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Written by Discover Digital Photography

July 26th, 2012 at 7:51 am