Create Surreal Images With Longer Exposure Times
Discussion: 1One of the greatest secrets of creative night photography is not a long exposure, but a longer one. This is what I refer to as the sweet spot exposure because it’s a small range of exposure times–typically longer than 1/10 of a second but shorter than 1 second. The reason this is such a great range is that it typically creates movement and blur, but not so much so that only light trails are seen. I’ve written articles on this before, such as freezing people in movement and combining flash and slow shutter speed.
EXIF: 100 ISO, 1/2 sec., f/9.5, 17mm focal length, flash off
In the photo above, leaving the shutter open for half a second allowed a good bit of the red-colored bus to be shown, but also blurred. This length also allowed the people behind the bus to be partially exposed as well.
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