Friday, January 30, 2009

Work the Exposure 2

Last time i discussed an interesting effect you can achieve by using manual shutter speeds with your camera.

This time i will discuss another, veeery well known, "trick" you can do by manually adjusting how long your shot is exposed to light and it is sometimes known as "light streaks".

It usually works at night when the cars lights are very bright in relation to the background. You set your camera's shutter speed to something like 15-30 seconds and then adjust the ISO settings and the F stop to a value that will give you a well exposed background (depends on the shutter speed you set). A tripod is essential for this because you will be exposing for several seconds and the slightest movement will create blurry effects on the shot.

The result is very well known as you can see:

5 comments:

Jessica said...

I tried this exact idea a few months back. Its the third picture down in the pictures on this blog post:

http://daughterofshylock.blogspot.com/2008/11/its-been-whilebut-i-have-few-treats.html

I look forward to trying this technique more this summer when I can actually stand to be outside for a while.

Unknown said...

I think yours is better than mine :( (:P)

Kal El said...

I really enjoyed these picture matey! Mainly the last one. Suchgreat effects the exposure can do.
Keep going :)

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Marion Go said...

Neat shots . . and neat blog.