60 Excellent long exposure photography examples
Posted by Diana Eftaiha on Aug 28, 2011 in Inspiration Fix | 8 comments
The key to brilliant long exposure photographs are: a slow shutter speed (the slower the better, usually a few seconds or longer), a very narrow aperture, and a very slow ISO speed (both to be able to let the least amount of light in, resulting obviously in longer shutter speeds, which is what we’re after and also to keep image noise at a minimum since noise tends to become more obvious with longer exposures).
Now since exposure times are gonna be longer than usual, an indispensable piece of equipment for long exposure photography would be a strong sturdy tripod to hold the cam still during the exposure.
You might find yourself going as slow as possible (in terms of shutter speed settings), after stopping your lens aperture all the way down and choosing the slowest ISO you have, yet still not getting a slow enough exposure, like maybe if the sun is too bright. What you need in such cases is either a polarizer filter, or even much better a neutral density filter (ND filter). If you don’t have access to either of those, you will need to wait till the sun goes down so you’d be able to get slower shutter speeds while the lighting conditions are lower.
So below are 70 excellent examples of long exposure photography. I hope you find some inspiration in there, and maybe an incentive to go out make a few shots of your own. Enjoy!
Photo by nrbelex
Photo by alexkess
Photo by Amir Kuckovic
Photo by jonmartin ()
Photo by Aristocrats-hat
Photo by Eleder JH
Photo by Barry Yanowitz
Photo by digitalpimp.
Photo by midlander1231
Photo by Werner Kunz
Photo by Werner Kunz
Photo by Insight Imaging: John A Ryan Photography
Photo by CowGummy
Photo by Garry – www.visionandimagination.com
Photo by c@rljones
Photo by andi.vs.zf
Photo by andi.vs.zf
Photo by andi.vs.zf
Photo by andi.vs.zf
Photo by andi.vs.zf
Photo by Eleder JH
Photo by MikeBehnken
Photo by flatworldsedge
Photo by B.Romain
Photo by Extra Medium
Photo by nrbelex
Photo by BURŠBLUE
Photo by Swedish Goose
Photo by Garry – www.visionandimagination.com
Photo by Garry – www.visionandimagination.com
Photo by redeye^
Photo by SergioTudela
Photo by OneEighteen
Photo by andi.vs.zf
Photo by Mike Chen aka Full Time Taekwondo Dad
Photo by Josh Liba
Photo by Werner Kunz
Photo by SergioTudela
Photo by andrew c mace
Photo by Garry – www.visionandimagination.com
Photo by Insight Imaging: John A Ryan Photography
Photo by Kovis
Photo by Garry – www.visionandimagination.com
Photo by caese
Photo by Joits
Photo by brentbat
Photo by Panoramas
Photo by Steve Webel
Photo by Garry – www.visionandimagination.com
Photo by Garry – www.visionandimagination.com
Photo by Garry – www.visionandimagination.com
Photo by jonmartin ()
Photo by midlander1231
Photo by midlander1231
Photo by midlander1231
Photo by midlander1231
Photo by brentbat
Photo by B.Romain
Photo by c@rljones
Photo by midlander1231
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Intense! I like
Amazing inspiring wonderful pics
Tres Bien
Nice. Worth noting that lenses have a sweet-spot. For example, I used to use the Tokina 11-16mm on my Nikon D300. Gorgeous piece of glass. But, if you went past f/16 on it, it actually got softer not sharper. A lot of lenses do this. So, yes, small aperture will naturally give you a longer exposure but be careful you are not stopping down the lens so far that it is softening. Drop the ISO to the lowest setting first, stop-down the lens to its sweetest, smallest aperture next. If these two things arent giving you the slow speed you need, add the ND filter.
Good Tip!
They took my breath away. Namaste’
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