[Theme] Long Exposure Thread

[Chip Chipowski]

Since it is short daylight hours in the Pacific NW, I am interested to practice long exposures around town.  I am a novice catching moving traffic, but it is fun to practice timing with the cars and trucks.  Please share your long exposures, whatever the subject.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

This is a test image from the Nikon D3 era where I wanted to see whether the internal time tick counter was 16-bit and thus would overflow after 109 minutes. It did. The exposure was 5 hours  by the way. I started in the middle of the winter night and returned at dawn to stop the camera exposure as the first sun rays found their way into the dark conifer forest.

Nikon D3, Fisheye-Nikkor 8 mm f/2.8 AI, 200 ISO.

[Chip Chipowski]

That is just awesome.  I can only imagine the difficulty in obtaining such nice composition with that 8mm.

[smusesuse]

This one's a long-ish exposure - 2 seconds. 

[rosko]

Please share your long exposures, whatever the subject.

It depends of minimum time is required to be qualified of ''long exposure''? 

Beyond second or minute ? (I don't think there are so many shots beyond hours like Bjørn's one)

[Akira]

This is the result of my very first trial of light composite function of Olympus E-M5 Mk II.  I forgot the total exposure time (exif seems to record only the basic exposure time), maybe somewhere between 30-60sec.

The function is very handy, because I can approximate the reasonable amount of exposure by watching the LCD.  The stars are trailed a bit, which helped the clearer rendering of the constellation of Orion.

I'm glad to know that this method effectively eliminates the very heavy light pollution of Tokyo.

[Chip Chipowski]

Francis, I encourage everyone to reach his or her own definition of long exposure.  Liberal interpretation is encouraged.  For example, I considered this to be a long exposure relative to my subject

[Jakov Minić]

I foresee great images to be posted here given the ones posted already.
I agree with the definition too, someone once said that time is relative

Shot in Slovenia in June this year during the birth of NG Revival!

[Alaun]

This is from my very first night shooting and about
the 5th or 6th picture I took that night.

And almost in the Pacific NW: Kalispell, May 1996,
with my then new SLR, a Nikon N70 with AF Nikkor 35-80 / 4 - 5.6 D and Kodak CG 100-4.

An interesting effect comes by the street lamp running with 60Hz, giving a light similar to a multi flash freezing some of the motion blur.

A similar effect seems to be visible in your first picture, light going on and off, maybe from some LED-lights, which often run at a frequency of ?? 24Hz?? (you have that with most of the red LED backlights of cars here in Europe).

[Frank Fremerey]

Great idea!

[Chip Chipowski]

Here is an opposite approach to my #6.

[rosko]

Francis, I encourage everyone to reach his or her own definition of long exposure.  Liberal interpretation is encouraged.  For example, I considered this to be a long exposure relative to my subject

Got it, Chip ! 

[Mongo]

Sometimes a slightly longer exposure than might have otherwise been called for actually helps the image. Adding a little complimentary blur around it seems to accentuate the motion obtained from that longer  exposure. Some simple street vendor scene examples + one track

[Øivind Tøien]

A classic 2.5 sec. treatment of a forest from today.

[Anirban Halder]

Øivind - that's a true classic! Love the effect!

Mongo - very nice street panning shots.

Thanks Chip for starting this interesting thread.

Minneapolis skyline. 6 sec exposure.