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How to take Long Exposure Shots
digitalicious.eugened.com — This is a quick and easy guide on taking those cool Long Exposure photographs. Most modern digital cameras have the ability to do this.
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- p00p, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2pretty simple photography, but neat nonetheless. love the examples- digg.
- Akia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like the random quotes on the side. Very amusing. Elegant layout as well. However, more examples would help since this is a photography site. It is a very simple as p00p has mentioned but is a great site for amateur digital photographers. +digg
- paulmetzger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1OMFG! All you have to do is change the exposure speed?!?!?!?! This is total insanity! Who ever could have thought of this on their own? It's an obvious setting. Holy Crap!!!!
- ndm007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Im sure people will ask 'why the heck did this get promoted to the front page'. Well its great simple guide which doesnt engulf people with complex photograspecech. simple. easy. advice.
- HiddenPeanuts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wasn't aware my camera even had this option until about six months ago, and I've had it for a year. Since then I've taken some great shots. Hopefully someone else will be made aware of the option from this post.
- HiddenPeanuts, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2P.S. Here's an example of some of the really cool stuff you can do:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hiddenpeanuts/24831411/in/set-485985/ - oliyoung, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1really, this deserves posting on the front page ? +1 Lame
- ryan_merket, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0+2 Lame
- capajc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Um, one acronym: RTFM
- surf314, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Um yea this is pretty obvious. I was playing around with long exposure effects since I first got my camera. Got some pretty cool ones with me and my friends with glow sticks. Here's a real tip if you take really long shots (around 30 seconds or more) and you can stay really still and know how to use light you can make things like faces appear out of the darkness and so on. Depending on the light used about 5 seconds is good to make a "solid" image.
- Wolfbeta, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0+infinity Lame
I found this out the first day I bought a camera, and I didn't even know what a shutterspeed was back then.
If people need to have very simple examples like this fed to them, then they really shouldn't be using a camera other than for documenting things.
If you don't have the curious ability to explore what your camera can do, and lack that certain creativity to put those features to use, what's the point? You're only going to end up taking photos the same way everyone else is, since you don't bother to try things yourself.
*end rant* - lucask, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0how is this getting diggs?? NO DIGG. you are lamez0rs if you don't know that.
bah go back to using your camera phones.
bah - Kashey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Best Digg so far
+infinity^FF Lame. - Ruckgesicht, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0ONLY PROFESSIONAL DIGITAL STILL CAMERAS CAN DO THIS
Otherwise the maximum exposure is very short - no more than 1.5 seconds max. Anything past this or perhaps at best 2 is not possible with 89% of digital stills. - xtremesniper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"ONLY PROFESSIONAL DIGITAL STILL CAMERAS CAN DO THIS"
That is not true. Even $100 cameras can now do this. All you need are shutter speed manual settings, and a lot of cameras have that now. You do not need a SLR to do this, however an SLR will produce less noise on the picture. This is a very very simple tutorial that is really basic. It's all about experimentation, people. - anymir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ruckqesicht is right.. a lot of digital cameras these days will not let you touch the exposure time.. like my pentax.. it pisses me off.
- defylogik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0something to remember is the longer the shutter speed, the smaller the aperature ( the larger the f-stop number) and the smaller the aperature is the more you will get the "starring" effect from bright light sources.
the way it was explained to be is try squinting your eyes and looking at a light, you will notice the starring of lights that way too. starring is a cool effect of long exposures.
check out my flickr photoset with pictures from downtown in my city, shows a lot of motion mostly 15-30 sec exposures with a digital rebel 6mp
http://www.flickr.com/photos/86112842@N00/sets/426053/ - alceria, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Um, lame. I love how the first and largest picture showing this "technique" clearly breaks the rules. The non-moving elements are way too blurry for there to have been a tripod. There are much better detailed instructions on long exposure photography elsewhere.
And sorry, but there's more to a cool picture than blurry headlights. - altidude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Wait, all I have to do is use a long exposure to take long exposure shots??? DOH!
- Soave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My Canon Powershot A75 has a maximum of 15 seconds. I wish I could just hold the button down though.
- Nick_Circosta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love to play with Long Exposure ... -Digg :)
- ravage386, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0As a hobbyist photographer, I must say... DUH!
- ravage386, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Afterthought...
What do those funky signs on both sides of the road mean? They look like large format cameras... - pimpsallad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i love timed exposure shots and love taking them. so +digg
- DWatch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3some other quick tips:
if your camera has a remote, use it or a timer to set off the exposure, as your finger on the button will cause vibration in the tripod, and blurring of the shot.
weigh down the tripod from underneath (most have a hook there in the center) to stabilize your tripod against wind induced vibration.
extend the tripod the minimum amount. The taller it is overall, the more it will sway at the top from vibrations from wind, road traffic, etc.
most cameras have a manual mode for exposure times, but they also require you to manually set the aperture, and some even make you set the focus as well while in 'manual' mode. READ your manual or your shots will be under/over exposed or out of focus.
the best nighttime shots using long exposure times are actually done just after dusk or close to dawn, when the sky is not 100% black.
don't try this from boat, it just don't work, unless you going for a streaked and blurry 'artistic' image.
some shots will be way over exposed no matter what you do to the aperture setting (your subject is just too bright), get a filter for the lens, its like sunglasses for the camera. It really helps on daylight long exposure shots (like flowing waterfalls). - streetlamp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I thought this was common sense, if anyone uses a camera for more then 5 minutes its kinda obvious. / that guy has a better tut than that site.
- washyomama, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Here's another red hot tip for you budding digital photographers out there. More than likely, if you are using a camera, there is a large button on the top right hand side of that camera. If, and I mean only if, you press that button, a digital picture will be recorded. Once you master this technique you are well along the path to becoming a digital photography wizard!
Note: If you press the button and nothing happens, you may not be holding a camera. Please ask someone nearby for further help, or call Eugene Dong. - dizdaz89, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0DWatch's comment is 99.9% more helpful then the article.
+Digg DWatch's comment, that's right... - djcoolmax, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1lame^infinity
- Canned_Heat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I am new to digg, but this is the lamest thing I have read so far. I expected some sort of new method/technique, but only got a simple-minded, poorly illustrated, brief piece about something that is common knowledge. Very, very lame.
- mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0yes, lets let the camera do everything for us for a good, professional looking shot.
lame.
taking long exposures takes a lot more than that if you actually want to do something with it, rather than just a car going by. a real long exposure is usually a lot longer than 2 seconds. some of the best long exposures are so long you actually see the stars make arcs in the sky because of the earth moving overnight.
no digg. - darksidez4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ya, would be cool, but i dont have a camera with an ajustable shutter.
on my camera though, if you hold the shutter down half way it sets and locks the shutter, focus, and f-stop. so if you hold you hand over the lens to hide it from the light it lock the shutter speed at about .25 sec or where ever i want.
not as effective but still gets the job done. - knot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0it's the guide to "how to take a picture."
1. Set up tripod
2. Mount your camera (why isn't this step 1? why else would u set up your tripod for??)
3. Set shutter speed
4. Take the Picture (surprisingly it doesn't point out--press the dang botton) - yaos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0WTF. I have trouble prevent shots like these and there is a site teaching how to do this. jeeze... just drink a lot of caffeine until you shake like a bitch who owe her pimp money and viola
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