19 Long exposures: night

Capturing motion

Underground Tunnel

I took this from inside a moving vehicle to capture the forward movment.

Kevin Meredith

The Idea

As a photographer you will probably spend a lot of time trying to avoid camera shake and motion blur in your shots, but when you know how to harness motion blur, you can create stunning photos that show more about the way the world moves than the fine detail of a scene.

The Ingredients

  • ▶ Any camera with a slowest shutter speed of less than 1/2 sec
  • ▶ Tripod (optional)
  • ▶ Cable release (optional)
  • ▶ Neutral density filters (optional)

The Process

A shutter speed below 1/60 sec will usually be slow enough to capture something of the motion trails of moving subjects, but to get their full impact ...

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