Anyone play with long exposures?

[DrVos]

I went camping with my wife and a friend about two weeks ago. As our campfire died down, we found that twirling the smoldering end of my fire poking stick would make it glow and make all kinds of cool shapes in the darkness.

I took out my camera, set the exposure for 1-2 seconds and fired away. I was really surprised by how well some of the photos turned out, being that it was all hand held and set to an arbitrary exposure. It's really neat how a long exposure can reveal shapes and colors normally invisible to the human eye.

In any case, here are some of my favorites from that night:

Fire Painting I
Fire Painting II
Fire Painting III

Any others have interesting long exposure photos to share?

 

[virtuamike]

Go down to de Young and catch the Sugimoto exhibit.

Linky.

 

[Aharami]

Setting - Grand Bahama Island
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/aharami/IMG_0165.jpg
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/aharami/IMG_0164.jpg
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/aharami/DSCF0088.jpg
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/aharami/DSCF0091.jpg
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/aharami/DSCF0093.jpg
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/aharami/DSCF0109.jpg

 

[indamixx99]

My contribution:

Fireworks

 

[montanafan]

Not as cool as the unique ones that DrVos and Aharami posted, just a Christmas tree and a zoom:

http://i34.photobucket.com/alb...ontanafan/IMG_5778.jpg

 

[Jawo]

I've played around with long exposures a fair amount, plus the two flash curtains that can fire (when the shutter opens and closes). A few samples:
Wedding 1
Wedding 2
Iwo Jima at Dusk

 

[davestar]

Out Front
Out Back

 

[puffff]

Originally posted by: Aharami
Setting - Grand Bahama Island

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/aharami/DSCF0093.jpg

very nice :thumbsup:

 

[Anubis]

This was a 15 min exposure

This was 8

 

[Canai]

Here are two pics from my time in Sydney

This one

and

This one

Both are taken with the camera pointing straight up and with minute exposures.

Only photoshoping done was to adjust brightness.

 

[Rubycon]

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[benjikan]

Here is one from an editorial I just shot for "NoName" Magazine coming out as an eight page series in September of 2007:

http://anashcreation.com/thena...Kanarek/reload2?full=1

Ben

 

[indamixx99]

Anyone get any pics of the meteor shower last night? I tried, but failed miserably. It was too bright around my area.

 

[TheChort]

I managed to find quite a few pics. The first 4 I took with my new Rebel XTi . The last 3 are on my old Canon SD400

Geneva, Switzerland (train station)
Driving into Las Vegas
Los Angeles at night
Kildonan and Sunshine

my campfire
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[allies]

I really need a tripod before I go to Asia. I have a monopod, but that won't help with minutes of exposure I love macro photography and long exposure photography. I don't really have any long exposure right now, due to lack of tripod

 

[TheChort]

Originally posted by: allies
I really need a tripod before I go to Asia. I have a monopod, but that won't help with minutes of exposure I love macro photography and long exposure photography. I don't really have any long exposure right now, due to lack of tripod

you don't always need a tripod ... 3 of the 7 pics i posted were done without a tripod. All you need is a stable surface, and keep in mind that you can crop the picture later

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Some of you have probably already seen these.

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug....lery/3112334#170317483
http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug....lery/3081186#168146300

 

[TheChort]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
Some of you have probably already seen these.

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug....lery/3112334#170317483
http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug....lery/3081186#168146300

I really like the first one ... the angle is really nice, and the colors all came out too. I've been trying to make my shots look like that for some time.

If you don't mind me asking...
What kind of setting did you use? Any filters? Lens? Camera?

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: TheChort

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
Some of you have probably already seen these.

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug....lery/3112334#170317483
http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug....lery/3081186#168146300

I really like the first one ... the angle is really nice, and the colors all came out too. I've been trying to make my shots look like that for some time.

If you don't mind me asking...
What kind of setting did you use? Any filters? Lens? Camera?

I'm assuming you mean this by the first shot.

Pic was taken either with my 50mm f/1.4 or 30mm f/1.4 on a tripod. Canon 30D with remote shutter and mirror lockup. Manual Mode, f/8, ISO100, don't remember the shutter speed but I think it was something like 5 seconds or more. No filters or anything.

The picture is actually a vertical panorama consisting of three pictures stitched together.

After stitching the picture I desaturated all of the colors except for the yellow and reds to really bring attention to the road. I used CS2's shadow/highlight filter to bring out some detail in the shadows, and then sharpened with Smart Sharpen and USM. And that's it

 

[TheChort]

thought this might be relavent to this months contest

hopefully it will give people some ideas

 

[alfa147x]

FireWorks? :
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[corkyg]

This a view of Monte Carlo at night centered on the Casino from the deck of the "Crystal Symphony" with a Canon S3 IS.

Casino

 

[TheChort]

Originally posted by: corkyg
This a view of Monte Carlo at night centered on the Casino from the deck of the "Crystal Symphony" with a Canon S3 IS.

Casino

ouch ... that's a LOT of noise on an otherwise nice picture
what ISO did you take it at?

 

[chcarnage]

These are a couple of years old, so sorry should I've posted them before.

Zurich Central and Limmat River
Zurich, traffic at the main station

Both made with an analog camera, 20-40 seconds exposure, no digital altering.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: TheChort
ouch ... that's a LOT of noise on an otherwise nice picture what ISO did you take it at?

I should have said - it was on AUTO - a P&S shot resting the camera on the deck rail. The noise is not really a problem for a DVD slide show - which is where it was used.