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​Five magic effect of long exposure photography

​Five magic effect of long exposure photography

Some people say that photography is to use light and shadow painting, canvas prints and the use of slow shutter speed for long time exposure, photography players must be one of the "painting" techniques, also let many people intoxicated. In fact, long exposure photography is also a kind of "magic", it can take a lot of our real life is hard to see the effect, to capture a lot of amazing wonderful pictures, the specific magic spell? Let's count them all.

Magic effect 1: water turns silk

Generally to the mountains to see waterfalls or streams, canvas photo prints can see the natural flow of water, splashes of white flowers, etc., but like to enjoy scenery photos of friends, must have been in magazines or other people's photographic works to see the water like silk texture photos.

Obviously the water that the naked eye sees is not like this, why to photograph can have this kind of effect? This is the magic of long exposure, and if you want to know the secret, cheap canvas frames you can watch it from here.

Magic effect 2: traffic changes to tracks

Night is also a good time for long exposure creation. On the one hand, it is because of the poor light environment at night, which requires longer exposure time without improving ISO, so that the picture can have sufficient brightness. And in the night, outdoor and static light source (such as street lights) and dynamic light source (such as car lights), the use of long exposure technique for shooting, the most interesting is to be able to change the dynamic car lights into a profusion of light track, sometimes even time and space through the illusory sense.

Five magic effect of long exposure photography

Magic effect 3: make way "disappear"

You come to a scenic spot and want to photograph its beautiful scenery, but you feel distracted by the people around you? Did it ever occur to you that you could use a long exposure to get these people out of the picture? Reduce the aperture of the camera and the ISO value to make a long time exposure. People in a hurry will disappear into the picture due to their fast moving speed and insufficient exposure, thus creating the effect of "no one".

Magic effect 4: a more detailed black and white world

If you are interested in black and white photography, you should not miss the way of shooting black and white photos with long exposure. Black and white photos taken with a slow shutter speed are more tonal and layered than normal shots. Because there is no color interference, the frame of the picture and the shape of the subject can be more prominent and distinct, which makes it easier for readers to read the information contained in the image to some extent.

Magic effect 5: makes the footsteps of time appear

Taking pictures of things in motion at a long exposure often produces a blurry track of an object, whether it's a light track, a figure, a cloud, or a star orbit, which is a testament to the passage of time. It is often said that time cannot be seen or touched. However, slow shutter speed can still make time come and go without any trace. This is exactly the way to describe the passing of time in still images.

Long exposure is a basic, common, and magical technique in photography, glass prints online which can produce many effects that are invisible to the naked eye and beyond people's original visual limitations. In addition to these basic magic types, do you know how long exposures work?

24th Aug 2019

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