Long exposure photography skills

Long exposure is an exposure method to choose a slow shutter. You can make the dim scenery clearer, or you can make a fantastic picture. Here are some long exposure photography skills, I hope to help you!

1. Let the footsteps of time appear.

When shooting things in motion under long exposure, the object trajectory is often blurred, whether it is light trace, figure, cloud or star trace, it is some proof of the passage of time. People always say that time can't be seen or touched, but they don't know that time can still "appear" without a trace under the capture of slow shutter, which is exactly the case. This is also a common way to describe the passage of time with static images.

2. The stream turned into silk.

Generally, when you look at waterfalls or streams on the mountain, you can see the natural flow of water and splashing white flowers. But friends who like to enjoy scenic photos must have seen flowing pictures in magazines or other people's works. Obviously, the running water seen by the naked eye is not like this. Why did it become like that? This is the little magic of long exposure!

3. Rheological trajectory

Night is also a good time for long exposure creation. On the one hand, because of the poor light environment at night, it takes longer exposure time to make the picture have enough brightness without improving ISO. At night, outdoor lighting is divided into static light sources, such as street lamps and dynamic light sources, such as car lights. The most interesting thing is that dynamic headlights can be transformed into colorful light tracks, and some even have the illusion of crossing time and space.

4. Passers-by become "invisible"

When you come to a scenic spot, you want to take pictures of its beauty, but you feel disturbed by the bustling crowd around you? At this time, have you ever thought that you can use long exposure to make these people disappear from the picture? Lower the aperture and ISO value of the camera for long exposure. Pedestrians in a hurry will disappear into the picture because of moving too fast and underexposure, and the effect of "no one" will be taken. Just like a photo of a Parisian street taken by Daguerre in 1838, it took 10 minutes to be exposed. As a result, everyone "disappeared" except a shoemaker who stayed in the corner to shine shoes.

5. Shoot a more detailed black and white world

For those who are interested in black and white photography, of course, you can't miss shooting long-exposure black and white works. Compared with general shooting, the black-and-white photos taken by slow shutter are more exquisite in tone and rich in layering. Because there is no color interference, it can also make the structure of the picture and the shape of the object more prominent and vivid, which can make readers easier to read some information contained in the image to some extent.