Long-exposure, time-exposure, or slow-shutter photography involves using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring the moving elements. Long-exposure photography captures one element that conventional photography does not: an extended period of time. The paths of bright moving objects become clearly visible. Clouds form broad bands, head and tail lights of cars draw bright streaks, stars leave trails in the sky, and water waves appear smoothened. Only bright objects will leave visible trails, whereas dark objects usually disappear. Boats in long exposures will disappear during daytime, but will draw bright trails from their lights at night.

I clicked some dope pictures last week and i decided to share them with you guys with some tips and tricks on how to get the best out of cameras for long exposure pictures.!

IMAGE 1

Most Probably you guys are going to think that its just another photoshoped picture, but the truth is that this is the ORIGINAL click right from the camera.
The Camera i used is a CANON 600D with the following settings:-
1.F-stop = f/6.3
2.Exposure time = 10 seconds
3.ISO speed = ISO-400
4.Focal Length = 55mm

Now the main question that is popping over your head is how did i get that dope background?
Well its simple!

1. I used cotton wool, a rope and some wires.
2. Take some cotton wool and make a cage type of structure from the hard wires and make sure that cotton wool doesn't fall out when you move the cage.
3. Tie a Rope equal to the length of your hand on one hand of the wire cage.
4. Make sure that the rope is tied tightly to the wire cage and the cage is also strong enough to hold the cotton wool even if the cage is thrown off from one place to another.
5. Make sure to do the following step by keeping a lot of distance from any object to prevent fire, since we are going to set the cotton wool on fire.
   Wear full sleeve attire and glasses to cover your eyes and if you think that you need to wear a mask to cover your face go ahead!
6. Set your camera according to your wish make sure that its at a safe distance.
7. Once the camera has started to click the image light up the cotton wool and oscillate it vertically clockwise or anti clockwise to get a result in the above pic.

Here are other night pictures clicked using long exposure and without long exposure:-

LONG EXPOSURE

SPECS

• F-stop = f/5
• Exposure Time = 10 seconds
• ISO speed = ISO-100
• Focal Length = 21mm

NORMAL CLICK

SPECS

• F-stop = f/3.5
• Exposure time = 1/10 seconds
• *ISO speed = ISO-3200
• Focal Length= 18mm

LONG EXPOSURE 2

NORMAL CLICK 2

LONG EXPOSURE 3

NORMAL CLICK 3

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