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Mini Challenge #70 - Long Exposure
grimace
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Long exposures can create dramatic effects in photography. Often times they are associated with night shots but even in normal lighting situations, long exposures can be used to create amazing photos.
Make sure you use a longer than normal exposure on all submissions.
Here's a couple examples to get it started
This challenge begins Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at 12:00:00 AM CST and ends Tuesday, February 10th at 11:59:59 PM CST.
GENERAL RULES
1. Have fun sharing and seeing what others share!
2. The host supplies a topic and you post 1-3 images. The host judges the winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and is not eligible to enter.
The 1st place winner then chooses the next topic, judges the winner and passes on the baton to the new champion.
3. Any photo you’ve taken is eligible, regardless of when taken or camera used.
4. Any amount of post-processing is allowed. However, it is helpful if you list your camera and lens along with your photo.
You may comment on other contestant's images. If you want someone to leave you some critique or criticism, put an asterisk (*) next to the title of the image.
5. The winner has up to three days (72 hours) to begin a new mini-challenge, or the honor goes to the #2 finisher and so forth.
Guidelines:
1. Enter 1-3 photos and put them in a single post.
2. Either embed your image in the thread or, if you must, supply a link to it. Keep in mind, however, most people don't want to click to open photos hosted elsewhere (i.e. on your website).
3. Also try and resize your photos prior to posting so they're sized appropriately for viewing without having to scroll (~800 pixels on the longest side works best.)
4. Give each image you enter a title.
5. Enjoy discussion with members about their images, dont let this just be an entry thread!
6. Dont be hesitant, share'em and enter!
Make sure you use a longer than normal exposure on all submissions.
Here's a couple examples to get it started
This challenge begins Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at 12:00:00 AM CST and ends Tuesday, February 10th at 11:59:59 PM CST.
GENERAL RULES
1. Have fun sharing and seeing what others share!
2. The host supplies a topic and you post 1-3 images. The host judges the winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and is not eligible to enter.
The 1st place winner then chooses the next topic, judges the winner and passes on the baton to the new champion.
3. Any photo you’ve taken is eligible, regardless of when taken or camera used.
4. Any amount of post-processing is allowed. However, it is helpful if you list your camera and lens along with your photo.
You may comment on other contestant's images. If you want someone to leave you some critique or criticism, put an asterisk (*) next to the title of the image.
5. The winner has up to three days (72 hours) to begin a new mini-challenge, or the honor goes to the #2 finisher and so forth.
Guidelines:
1. Enter 1-3 photos and put them in a single post.
2. Either embed your image in the thread or, if you must, supply a link to it. Keep in mind, however, most people don't want to click to open photos hosted elsewhere (i.e. on your website).
3. Also try and resize your photos prior to posting so they're sized appropriately for viewing without having to scroll (~800 pixels on the longest side works best.)
4. Give each image you enter a title.
5. Enjoy discussion with members about their images, dont let this just be an entry thread!
6. Dont be hesitant, share'em and enter!
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#1: Last Second (Second Beach at sunset, intentionally over-exposed to soften the waves and colors, 20 second exposure):
#2: Falls from the Flood (Snoqualmie Falls while the Snoqualmie River was at flood levels a few weeks ago, this was taken at dawn, 30 second exposure, and basically the last shot I got before my entire camera was drenched with water being kicked up from the river
#3: Sunset Soon Forgotten (Lake Washington sunset, 30 second exposure about 20 minutes after sunset)
I tried to get three different examples, and when I thought they were all sufficiently different, I realized they all had water in them! What can I say, I like how long exposures tend to soften water, whether it be the ocean, a waterfall, or a lake.
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Lightning, Arches Nat'l Park
1.6 sec at f/11 ISO 200. Pure luck as I tripped the shutter just before the lightning struck. Not super dramatic but my first ever shot of lightning.
People Movers, Chicago O'Hare International Airport
1.3 sec at f/22 ISO 800. The wacky neon lights above flashed on and off in different patterns - the long exposure allowed all of them to appear lit up, and enhanced motion blur to accentuate the sense of bustling humanity. I wanted extreme DOF for the long corridor, hence the small aperture. Don't know why the ISO was set so high - probably from a previous shot!
National Christmas Tree, Washington D.C.
13 sec at f/22 ISO 200. The small aperture produced the starry effect on the lights. Long exposure rendered invisible the literally hundreds of people milling about the empty field in front of the tree - except for the couple standing still for a self-portrait.
5 1/2 Hour Exposure
Never got around to re-snappin this. Need several hours of 'good' light. Have buckets of Night and Water pics but I decided to throw something a little different into the mix.
On Edit: Realized I posted a 'Film Snap' in a Digital Forum. I'll take a looksie to see what I can replace it with. (my bad)
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." - Dorothea Lange
dont replace this, its wonderful. if you took the photograph that is what matters, btw, you can add two more....
#2 - Artillery from the Fourth
#3 - Camping
Jeff Meyers
1) The first long exposure I took... it sort of happened by accident since I'd only had the camera a month. I loved the results, so I've been playing with long exposures ever since!
2) Luckily, most of the crowd stayed still, held in place by a street performer. I really enjoyed the contrast of the stationary crowd and the flow of people behind them.
3) An experiment with long exposures of the waves and their relationship to the unmoving pier... Maybe a higher vantage point would have allowed me to capture more of the soft waves, but I like it!
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Thanks much for the kind words. I just read 'Rule #3'. I'll take a looksie to see what else I can come up.
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." - Dorothea Lange
I usually use long exposure to capture details like this photo:
And I actually tried a camera toss! I was a little nervous about it, but actual found it fun!
And oddly enough, this next one was a mistake...but I really ended up liking it!
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This image #1 is the stuff that photographers pursue for a lifetime. That perfect shot. What a wonderful image to use as the focal point for a studio. OUTSTANDING.
#1 - Ocean Shores
#2 - Skagit Valley Tulip Festival
15 sec exposure. After taking this photo, we got chased off the property because the owner thought we were stealing flowers being there so late at night
#3 - The Emerald City at Night
8 second exposure
This is one tecnique that I still have lots of learning to do. Here are a few of my lousy attempts...they fall quite short on the great images I am seeing all you post.
1. Taken this morning out my back door. It was still pretty dark out and the exposure was on bulb for about 25 seconds. It was -15f degrees out and the orange glow is from a parking lot that our neighbors put up (so much for building regulations in Alaska)...
2. This was taken at Sea World in San Antonio, Tx...It was a very bright day and I was using a polarizer to try and slow down the shutter speed. And even though I had a monopod...I still couldn't hold still enough!...
3. Taken a few at the 2008 new year in 10f degree temps. My first time ever trying to shoot fireworks (unfortunately it doesn't get dark enough in July for us so have to do it in the cold)...considering this was hand held and I had not a clue to what I was doing...
So any comments of ideas how I can do better with my long exposure shots would be appreciated.
1. Blown Away
2. DeSoto Falls
3. 25 Seconds in the Light
In this great big world around us, we will find what we are looking for! What we do with it is up to us to decide.
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#2 OOOOH AHHHHH!
I love Long Expos!.... even though im always learning the hard way, I never let it get me down....8 zillion exposures and I now have a few i like
here are some of my favs
#1
I wanted the flag movement just right, its fun trying to get the timing just right.
Utah state capital building.
2sec expo
#2
Bryce Canyon: a favorite location of mine,
i was doing a really long expo and noticed the sunrise was going to crest.
so i decided to hold out just a little to see what would happen in the exposure and it turned out to be a keeper in my book...
Thors Hammer is photographed daily, i feel ive done good when i get something different from the crowd, so dont knock it....
488sec expo,
"Crest"
#3
Salt Lake City, Conference Center (Roof Top)
( i just printed this in Metallic paper, and very well pleased with it...)
75sec expo
It's a good thing you are considered a winner from the last challenge
Nikon Shooter
It's all about the moment...
Good question. I have a flashlight turned on inside the tent. And the light on the grass is from a large camp fire behind me a to my left, and maybe even a bit of light from the cabin near the camp fire. Does that answer your question?
Jeff Meyers
ha, im pretty sure Grimace would have something to say about that....
funny thing is i too am always in awe of everyones entries, it amazes me that so many have so much of a great collection...
which reminds me.... where has Pyry been?
Dueling Light Shows
Awaiting Moonrise
http://snowcatcher.smugmug.com/
Anyway, here's my 48 minutes: Metsähovi Star Trail
I've got a solargraph can going on at about 5 weeks, I'll see if it's alive and post the picture later.
Edit: Right! I'm shamelessly going for the Longest Exposure In Show award with 6 weeks (42 days).
Sun and Fireflys
BTW, some of the shots in here.. wow!
http://pyryekholm.kuvat.fi/
I am at awe at this shot! 1 in a billion chances to capture something like this!
Im sure glad im not judging this challenge, so MANY MANY sweet images,
but im rooting you on for this one...
but I can see I've been missing out, the entries so far have been very inspiring!
So, I'm just throwing this in for fun, feel free to laugh at my measly attempt!
We were having a family bonfire one night last summer, and the kids were playing flashlight tag,
my oldest wanted to see if it would work to catch an image of writing with the flashlight...so here you have it....
Joe
"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth." — Mark Twain
Here's mine, out of my pretty limitted long exposure pics:
and
Hong Kong has a great skyline and very unique buildings... this is a reflection as well as a long exposure... I didn't have a tripod for this excursion...
3 shot pano From the top of Rockefeller Center...
Pano of Shanghai China
Winston