Assignment #86, Long-Exposure Photography (COMMENT)

**Janet** · 07-18-2012, 05:10 PM

Use this thread for posting your comments, and/or current/prior work for assignment #86: Long-exposure photography, and for this assignment, that will be defined as a shutter speed of 1 second or more.
Leaving the shutter open on a fixed camera can result in some great creativity and astonishing photos. Don’t forget though, the camera can be moving on a still subject. Also, the shutter can be opened and closed several times to get a “time lapse” look or feel. THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX.
This assignment will also allow for some painting with light if you are so inclined.

Any equipment that you can achieve a minimum of a 1 second shutter speed will do (point & shoot, DSLR, or film). CROPPING IS OK, BUT PLEASE REFRAIN FROM POST EDITING. All shooters are welcome, and all forum posting rules apply regarding suitability of an image to post.
I am looking for the WOW factor. That is all. Elaborate staging will not be as much of a factor as, “Wow!”
I have attached a link to some examples, along with one of my shots.

Your ENTRY photograph has to have been taken between now and Monday, July 30th at midnight.
Examples:
http://digital-photography-school.co...re-photography

My example:

DFW_Warrior · 07-18-2012, 05:12 PM

I love me some long exposures. I can't wait to try some new tricks with this one.

**Janet** · 07-19-2012, 09:22 AM

Another not very good example of mine. I did not have a tripod and I was standing on the deck of a ship that was tied up at Hamburg harbor. I had the camera braced pretty well but the moving water caused me to have the blur.

**47wing** · 07-19-2012, 11:19 AM

Oh the timing.

I was stuck on CA-1 at around 10ish - July 7th or 8th. With the CA nuts driving like they do on freeways, we decided to stop for the night. The fog broke just enough to show the hills going into Pacific under the moonlight.

It was a mad rush to pull the jacket on, find the camera, test the settings, make sure the lens is not fogged up, find a stable spot so a 5D with a L series lens is not sacrificed to gods of the Pacific, set up the shot, etc,etc...

Turns out 15+ seconds was the magic number. So I set up the shot and wait. Well, 15 seconds in cold Pacific wind is more like an hour. So here it is, without any clean up since you can see the red taillights and headlights of cars on CA-1.

**Janet** · 07-19-2012, 11:53 AM

Beautiful!

photoryder · 07-19-2012, 02:05 PM

Very nice moonlight shot!!!!!

**Janet** · 07-19-2012, 02:05 PM

This is a 2 second shot that I took with my Sony point and shoot last year at employee's reunion.

**Tracker** · 07-25-2012, 08:58 PM

darn. .231 seconds too short

**Janet** · 07-25-2012, 09:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tracker

darn. .231 seconds too long

Too long? Thee is no too long, or I don't get your drift, Gary.

**Tracker** · 07-26-2012, 06:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Janet

Too long? Thee is no too long, or I don't get your drift, Gary.

um, yeah, long...short.

short! that's what I meant. it doesn't qualify.

**Janet** · 07-26-2012, 06:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tracker

um, yeah, long...short.

short! that's what I meant. it doesn't qualify.

Whew! Thought it was me. Its been a long week.
It is a beautiful photo

**Andrew T** · 07-26-2012, 08:38 AM

This was a moonbow near Ophir, Colorado, a couple years ago - 15.0 seconds on a tripod with my Rebel XSi:

And a lightning storm a couple days later in New Mexico; same deal:

klb1122 · 07-26-2012, 03:27 PM

I came up with something last night and fogot the part about no post processing. In this case shooting in RAW is a disadvantage, but oh well, I'm going to just go with it. I'll post the edited version in this thread. It's not a huge difference, but there is a difference.

**buck000** · 07-26-2012, 04:09 PM

I don't have any entry of my own, cuz I suck at photography.

However, one of my best friends from high school is a great photographer, who had a fun story with a photo I bought from him, and I had to share:

It was just about dark when he set up his shot. He held open the shutter for a minute, then closed it. Since he couldn't hardly see at that point, he figured there wasn't much to be had, but he developed it anyway. Also, the slightest bit of wind would ruin the photo.

He was pleased with the results, and so am I...!

Duke · 07-26-2012, 11:51 PM

Andrew T. Those are excellent shots. That lighting storm is outstanding!

buck000. I hope to be able to capture images like your best friend one day.

Klb1122. Glad you posted up, I didn't even catch the NO POST EDITING portion of the rules. Like you, I shoot RAW as well. I was in San Francisco & Monterey last week and got some shots that I thought about submitting. But alas, they do not conform to the rules.

Like this mildly massaged 8.0 Sec, capture, with the camera bag as the tripod of sorts.

**Janet** · 07-27-2012, 09:26 AM

There are some beautiful photos here. Wow! Love the aircraft in your photo, Duke.

klb1122 · 07-27-2012, 09:05 PM

Duke, awesome shot!!!

DFW_Warrior · 07-28-2012, 11:02 PM

Janet, if my entry doesn't meet the rules then by all means you can have Scott pull it out. It was shot in raw, but the only thing that is done to it is a crop and then exported to my Photobucket account as a JPEG.

Now I am working on an edited one that I want to have printed to see how well it looks.

**M38A1** · 07-28-2012, 11:06 PM

I'll let Janet call it how she wants. The way I read it, a crop is OK and converting from RAW to .jpg is not post-processing in my book. It's a conversion from one format to another with no manipulation in between. That's my thought at least....

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**Janet** · 07-29-2012, 07:29 AM

That is correct, Scott. Sorry I did not see this earlier. Busy week...
RAW is fine, just no retouching.

07-18-2012, 05:10 PM	#1
Janet Forum Supporter Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Midlothian, TX Posts: 3,334	Assignment #86, Long-Exposure Photography (COMMENT) Use this thread for posting your comments, and/or current/prior work for assignment #86: Long-exposure photography, and for this assignment, that will be defined as a shutter speed of 1 second or more. Leaving the shutter open on a fixed camera can result in some great creativity and astonishing photos. Don’t forget though, the camera can be moving on a still subject. Also, the shutter can be opened and closed several times to get a “time lapse” look or feel. THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. This assignment will also allow for some painting with light if you are so inclined. Any equipment that you can achieve a minimum of a 1 second shutter speed will do (point & shoot, DSLR, or film). CROPPING IS OK, BUT PLEASE REFRAIN FROM POST EDITING. All shooters are welcome, and all forum posting rules apply regarding suitability of an image to post. I am looking for the WOW factor. That is all. Elaborate staging will not be as much of a factor as, “Wow!” I have attached a link to some examples, along with one of my shots. Your ENTRY photograph has to have been taken between now and Monday, July 30th at midnight. Examples: http://digital-photography-school.co...re-photography My example: __________________ .......Janet 2008 FJR Ride With Pride! Blue Knights TX XXI IBA 18308 "Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." Thomas Paine

07-18-2012, 05:12 PM	#2
DFW_Warrior Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Arlington, TX Posts: 11,858	Re: Assignment #86, Long-Exposure Photography (COMMENT) I love me some long exposures. I can't wait to try some new tricks with this one. __________________ Bill ('04 DL1000)('00 KLR)('05 YZ250) We'll never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on Earth.

07-19-2012, 09:22 AM	#3
Janet Forum Supporter Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Midlothian, TX Posts: 3,334	Re: Assignment #86, Long-Exposure Photography (COMMENT) Another not very good example of mine. I did not have a tripod and I was standing on the deck of a ship that was tied up at Hamburg harbor. I had the camera braced pretty well but the moving water caused me to have the blur. __________________ .......Janet 2008 FJR Ride With Pride! Blue Knights TX XXI IBA 18308 "Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." Thomas Paine Last edited by Janet; 07-19-2012 at 10:21 AM. Reason: punctuation error

07-19-2012, 11:19 AM	#4
47wing Forum Supporter Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 168	Big Sur under Moonlight Oh the timing. I was stuck on CA-1 at around 10ish - July 7th or 8th. With the CA nuts driving like they do on freeways, we decided to stop for the night. The fog broke just enough to show the hills going into Pacific under the moonlight. It was a mad rush to pull the jacket on, find the camera, test the settings, make sure the lens is not fogged up, find a stable spot so a 5D with a L series lens is not sacrificed to gods of the Pacific, set up the shot, etc,etc... Turns out 15+ seconds was the magic number. So I set up the shot and wait. Well, 15 seconds in cold Pacific wind is more like an hour. So here it is, without any clean up since you can see the red taillights and headlights of cars on CA-1.

07-19-2012, 11:53 AM	#5
Janet Forum Supporter Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Midlothian, TX Posts: 3,334	Re: Assignment #86, Long-Exposure Photography (COMMENT) Beautiful! __________________ .......Janet 2008 FJR Ride With Pride! Blue Knights TX XXI IBA 18308 "Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." Thomas Paine

07-19-2012, 02:05 PM	#6
photoryder Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: San Antonio, Tx Posts: 102	Re: Assignment #86, Long-Exposure Photography (COMMENT) Very nice moonlight shot!!!!! __________________ Get it? IBA# 49494 Current bike: 05 V-Strom DL1000 Past bikes: 09 Suzuki Boulevard C50 95 Kawasaki Concours WILCO. TANGO. FOXTROT

07-25-2012, 08:58 PM	#8
Tracker Forum Supporter Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Mooresville, NC Posts: 7,698	Re: Assignment #86, Long-Exposure Photography (COMMENT) darn. .231 seconds too short __________________ Help somebody help themselves TX expat "Necessity is the excuse for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of the tyrant and the creed of the slave." - William Pitt "Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."" - Charles M. Schulz Zenfolio.com referral code KDY-PV7-2MU Outdoor Gear Deals here Last edited by Tracker; 07-26-2012 at 06:00 AM. Reason: doh

07-26-2012, 08:38 AM	#12
Andrew T Forum Supporter Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Refugio, TX Posts: 718	Re: Assignment #86, Long-Exposure Photography (COMMENT) This was a moonbow near Ophir, Colorado, a couple years ago - 15.0 seconds on a tripod with my Rebel XSi: And a lightning storm a couple days later in New Mexico; same deal: __________________ Andrew Tatton 12 Super Tenere 09 KLR 688 04 KTM 625 SXC 07 Hyosung GT650 (Sold) 03 C-10 Concours (Sold) 01 ZRX 1200R (Sold) 96 TW 200 (project)

07-26-2012, 03:27 PM	#13
klb1122 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 1,629	Re: Assignment #86, Long-Exposure Photography (COMMENT) I came up with something last night and fogot the part about no post processing. In this case shooting in RAW is a disadvantage, but oh well, I'm going to just go with it. I'll post the edited version in this thread. It's not a huge difference, but there is a difference. __________________ -- Kory -- 2003 Kawasaki ZZR1200 2008 Kawasaki C-14

07-26-2012, 04:09 PM	#14
buck000 Forum Supporter Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Round Rock Posts: 4,069	Re: Assignment #86, Long-Exposure Photography (COMMENT) I don't have any entry of my own, cuz I suck at photography. However, one of my best friends from high school is a great photographer, who had a fun story with a photo I bought from him, and I had to share: It was just about dark when he set up his shot. He held open the shutter for a minute, then closed it. Since he couldn't hardly see at that point, he figured there wasn't much to be had, but he developed it anyway. Also, the slightest bit of wind would ruin the photo. He was pleased with the results, and so am I...! __________________ paul '01 Futura, '07 Tuono -- "Aprilia? Who makes those?" Chris Martenson Crash Course - Worth viewing.

07-26-2012, 11:51 PM	#15
Duke Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: The Woodlands & Woden, TX Posts: 3,689	Re: Assignment #86, Long-Exposure Photography (COMMENT) Andrew T. Those are excellent shots. That lighting storm is outstanding! buck000. I hope to be able to capture images like your best friend one day. Klb1122. Glad you posted up, I didn't even catch the NO POST EDITING portion of the rules. Like you, I shoot RAW as well. I was in San Francisco & Monterey last week and got some shots that I thought about submitting. But alas, they do not conform to the rules. Like this mildly massaged 8.0 Sec, capture, with the camera bag as the tripod of sorts.

07-27-2012, 09:26 AM	#16
Janet Forum Supporter Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Midlothian, TX Posts: 3,334	Re: Assignment #86, Long-Exposure Photography (COMMENT) There are some beautiful photos here. Wow! Love the aircraft in your photo, Duke. __________________ .......Janet 2008 FJR Ride With Pride! Blue Knights TX XXI IBA 18308 "Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." Thomas Paine

07-27-2012, 09:05 PM	#17
klb1122 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 1,629	Re: Assignment #86, Long-Exposure Photography (COMMENT) Duke, awesome shot!!! __________________ -- Kory -- 2003 Kawasaki ZZR1200 2008 Kawasaki C-14

07-28-2012, 11:02 PM	#18
DFW_Warrior Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Arlington, TX Posts: 11,858	Re: Assignment #86, Long-Exposure Photography (COMMENT) Janet, if my entry doesn't meet the rules then by all means you can have Scott pull it out. It was shot in raw, but the only thing that is done to it is a crop and then exported to my Photobucket account as a JPEG. Now I am working on an edited one that I want to have printed to see how well it looks. __________________ Bill ('04 DL1000)('00 KLR)('05 YZ250) We'll never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on Earth.

07-28-2012, 11:06 PM	#19
M38A1 Administrator Forum Supporter Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Capitol of Weirdness Posts: 12,194	Re: Assignment #86, Long-Exposure Photography (COMMENT) I'll let Janet call it how she wants. The way I read it, a crop is OK and converting from RAW to .jpg is not post-processing in my book. It's a conversion from one format to another with no manipulation in between. That's my thought at least.... . __________________ Scott 2002 R1150GS (I think I'm 'gonna just call it "Number 5") "I've been everywhere, man" 100K miles of smiles "Everyone should have something in their life that requires a helmet" - Ann Sweeney

07-29-2012, 07:29 AM	#20
Janet Forum Supporter Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Midlothian, TX Posts: 3,334	Re: Assignment #86, Long-Exposure Photography (COMMENT) That is correct, Scott. Sorry I did not see this earlier. Busy week... RAW is fine, just no retouching. __________________ .......Janet 2008 FJR Ride With Pride! Blue Knights TX XXI IBA 18308 "Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." Thomas Paine

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