Long exposures are taken with shutter speeds generally longer or much longer than one second, in order to capture stationary objects in low light while blurring or obscuring moving elements.
Questions tagged [long-exposure]
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Explanation please: Pictures look inverted while making long exposure photograph
I have a 5 year old Point and Shoot (Nikon 4600). Though it has very limited capabilities , I have been learning lot of things related to photography from it.
I was trying to make some long exposure photos in the dark with a very faint light…
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How can I get smooth water and a city skyline including the city light with a bright sky?
The water surface looks so smooth and the lights have the rays coming out. What are the techniques to get such image? What kind of camera settings a dslr camera should have?
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What is the camera doing when "processing" a long exposure photo?
I'm looking for a technical answer, ideally from an engineer that actually works on the cameras or someone who's reverse engineered the firmware. I'm a graphics programmer so don't hold back the tech.
On pretty much every digital camera I've owned,…
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Object in night sky long exposure
I took this long exposure of the night sky with my phone, the exposure lasted for 5 minutes. After seeing it, I saw this weird streak going across the photo. I compared it to other long exposures on Google of planes meteors, etc. but I couldn't find…
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Are there any digital cameras that show the partial picture mid-exposure?
Inspired by this question.
Are there any cameras / firmware hacks out there that read the sensor multiple times during a long exposure, and show the partial picture on the screen?
Light-painting should be fun with such a camera :)
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How to maximise the impact of car headlight trails in long exposure
I'm trying to do long exposure photos with car headlight trails and am finding the results a little disappointing due to the low 'impact' of the light trails. I believe there are a few things affecting this, namely
length of exposure (currently…
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What is the relationship between readout and exposure time?
When I increase the exposure time (say up to 20 s), it seems like my Nikon D3100 takes longer to readout the picture (no matter the intensities in the picture!).
How is the readout related to the exposure time? Is that the readout time to be longer…
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Techniques used in long exposure in a forest
I stumbled upon a photo and am intrigued at what the photographer do to achieve this result.
tree in forest
I know there will be much processing involved but to achieve a decent photo that is exposure in dense forestation, are there any techniques…
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How do I take slow pictures when the camera is too bright?
I recently bought a Panasonic FZ300. The camera is good, but to my surprise I found out that minimum aperture is f/8 and minimum ISO is 100. I tried to take some pictures of a stream with the circular polariser mounted, but still I could not get the…
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How do I take long (at least 1 minute) exposures in daytime without overexposing everything?
I bought a Vario ND 2-400 filter today and tested it out. I think it goes up to +8 stops, and I was using it darkest to let less light in.
I used high f-stop, ISO 200, and up to 10 seconds. However, anything longer than ~5 seconds became mostly…
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Tips for shooting a longer exposure in a car?
For example, a shot of the driver driving but with a slight blur to the driver without the car body itself being blurred (dashboard, seats, etc). Often when I give this a try the photo results in an overall blurryness,
what are some stabilization…
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Slow image review after long exposure shot
When I use the Bulb function for long exposure shots on my Canon 60D, I find the Image Review afterwards takes for ever to appear... the camera displays 'busy' for nearly as long as the exposure took. It does not seem right. Any suggestion re…
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How was this long exposure photo taken?
How was this long exposure shot by Darren Moore taken?
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/61094835@N07/13534638135/
Apparently these stones are in the sea:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4101/4920024841_6d6f444f11.jpg
But there's sand and rocks at…
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