{"id":1320,"date":"2018-12-08T00:32:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T00:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/news\/camera-club\/long-exposure-photography\/"},"modified":"2018-12-08T00:32:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T00:32:34","slug":"long-exposure-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/news\/camera-club\/long-exposure-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-Exposure Photography tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>From streaking lights to smoothed out bodies of water, long-exposure photography&nbsp;<span data-offset-key=\"e74ag-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">from DSLR and mobile phone cameras<\/span><\/span> can produce some creative shots.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({\n          google_ad_client: \"ca-pub-7973504075957829\",\n          enable_page_level_ads: true\n     });\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g6DIaFnnCiI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XZYj_3u8HNA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Mobile phone long-exposure photography.&nbsp; (One good app is Slow Shutter)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tQZDMY-Bh_U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Check out other long-exposure photography vidoes at the link below. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=long+exposure+photography\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=long+exposure+photography<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">By Jason Lewis<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">With Photoshop and other photo editing software, &ldquo;trick&rdquo; photography (for lack of a better term) has become really popular.&nbsp; People with great computer skills have produced some really great work by manipulating images.&nbsp; But there are some tricks that don&rsquo;t require computer skills.&nbsp; All you need is your camera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">We&rsquo;ve all seen the nighttime pictures that have auto head and tail lights streaking through the image.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s simple done with a camera on a tripod.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s long-exposure photography.&nbsp; It is also used to smooth out water that is in motion.&nbsp; Many photographers use it for landscape photography at the beach, at a waterfall, or taking a sky line photo of buildings adjacent to a body of water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1310\" src=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/6.jpg 781w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/6-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1311\" src=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/7.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/7-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Long-exposure photography (with the camera on a tripod) makes stationary objects stand still, but objects in motion will either streak or blur across the image. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1312\" src=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/5-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A long exposure is typically setting the shutter speed to a half of a second or higher.&nbsp; Most DSLR cameras can go up to 30 second exposures, and some even longer.&nbsp; Long exposures can be several minutes, and in some extreme cases, several hours (think of the desert shot where the stars are swirling).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A tripod is important because the camera has to stay stationary.&nbsp; This cannot be done handheld.&nbsp; For many people, shooting handheld under about a 60th of a second can be difficult.&nbsp; Long exposures can be done without a tripod by putting the camera on a table or other stationary object.&nbsp; But without a tripod you&rsquo;ll be extremely limited. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A remote control (either with a wire or wireless) is very helpful, because even when the camera is on a tripod, when you press the shutter button, the camera slightly moves.&nbsp; That slight movement can slightly blur the stationary objects.&nbsp; Using a remote solves that issue and keeps those objects sharp.&nbsp; If you do not have a remote, simply put the camera on a timer.&nbsp; On a two second timer, when you press the shutter button and the camera slightly moves, it has two seconds to move back to it&rsquo;s original position.&nbsp; By the time the shutter opens, the camera will have stopped moving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For the photo with head and tail lights streaking through the image, set the camera anywhere from a few seconds to 10 seconds.&nbsp; Try to time it right so that the cars are consistently in motion while the shutter is open.&nbsp; If a car stops at a red light, you&rsquo;ll get a stopped car in your photo opposed to have just the streaking lights. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1313\" src=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1314\" src=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For large bodies of water, which typically has ripples from the waves and the movement of the current, long exposures creates a cool affect that smooths the water out.&nbsp; The same is true for clouds and fog. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Long-exposure photography has created amazing images at the beach during sunset.&nbsp; Now, I have never done long exposures during the day time, so this next point is based solely on articles and Youtube videos that I&rsquo;ve researched.&nbsp; It appears that even as you&rsquo;re losing the light after sunset, there is too much light.&nbsp; So unless you have a neutral density (ND) filter, which limits the amount of light that enters through the camera lens, your photos will probably be overexposed.&nbsp; Closing the aperture as much as possible may help, but even shooting at f\/22 may not allow you to shoot with shutter speeds longer than a second or so.&nbsp; Again, I haven&rsquo;t experimented with this, but it looks like you&rsquo;ll need a ND filter.&nbsp; With the filter, you&rsquo;ll be able to do long exposures while sunlight is present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1315\" src=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/8.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/8-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1316\" src=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/9.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/9-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1317\" src=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/10.png 600w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/10-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Like any piece of equipment, there are expensive and inexpensive versions.&nbsp; ND filters can cost well over $200 (I saw one online listed at $500), and they can cost as little as $20.&nbsp; I saw one Youtube video where a guy used a $20 ND filter and he said that he was surprised that it worked so well.&nbsp; But remember, you get what you pay for.&nbsp; If you can afford better, purchase better, especially if this is something that you can use often.&nbsp; You should also do some research on the filters, because from the little research that I&rsquo;ve done, it looks like there is a lot to learn about the ND filter system.&nbsp; Maybe start off with cheap one and play around with it and then start to purchase more expensive ones are you figure it out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1318\" src=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/12.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/12-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For camera settings, use the lowest ISO setting that your camera can do.&nbsp; Chose your aperture based on the depth of field that you want.&nbsp; If you&rsquo;re in downtown Los Angeles getting the famous shot on 3rd Street above the 110 freeway, you&rsquo;ll want a large depth of field so that the freeway in the foreground and the buildings in the background are all in focus.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s pretty much landscape photography, so f\/7.1 to f\/13 usually works well, or even higher f\/stops.&nbsp; Once the ISO and aperture are set, play around with the shutter speed to get the correct exposure and desired long-exposure effect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Also factor in that long-exposure shots take up more memory card space. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">There are a lot of creative ways to capture long exposure photographs.&nbsp; Search the Internet for ways outside of streaking lights or smoothing out water, and experiment with as much as you can.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1319\" src=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/13.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/13.png 600w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/13-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>From streaking lights to smoothed out bodies of water, long-exposure photography&nbsp;<span data-offset-key=\"e74ag-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">from DSLR and mobile phone cameras<\/span><\/span> can produce some creative shots.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[169,1003,93,1005,168,858,862,167,874,161,1004,218,134,133,156,157,1162,75,163,166,863,162,165,876,869,864,102,860,158,160,159,164],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camera-club","tag-african-american","tag-african-american-newspaperphotography","tag-baldwin-hills","tag-bhphoto","tag-black-newspaper","tag-camera-club","tag-canon","tag-community-newspaper","tag-composition","tag-crenshaw","tag-go-pro","tag-inglewood","tag-jason-douglas-lewis","tag-jason-lewis","tag-ladera-heights","tag-leimert-park","tag-long-exposure-photography","tag-los-angeles","tag-mid-city","tag-newspaper","tag-nikon","tag-park-mesa-heights","tag-photographer","tag-photography-club","tag-photoshop","tag-sony","tag-south-los-angeles","tag-videography","tag-view-park","tag-west-adams","tag-windsor-hills","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}