Long-exposure, or slow-shutter photography involves using a low shutter speed to capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring the moving elements. Long-exposure photography captures one element that conventional photography does not: an extended period of time.
You can have the paths of bright moving objects become clearly visible. Example; clouds form broad bands, vehicle lights draw bright streaks, stars leaving trails in the sky, and water waves appear smooth. Only bright objects leave visible trails, whereas dark objects usually disappear. Boats in long exposures disappear during the daytime, but draw bright trails from their lights at night.
Leave aside the entire world and explore your imagination within the four walls. Pick up any small object from your shelf, play with camera settings; especially the shutter and bring your imagination to a reality. Add little flavours by adjusting ceiling lightings or slight lighting an object with a simple mobile torch and you can get immensely satisfying results in your photography.
You can make wonder photographs indoor. For creativity, any sturdy tripod is quite handy and it will eliminate the shake. By reducing the shutter speed, you can do wonders. Make trail on a wall with a laser pointer, perhaps you can write your name and photograph it. This is Long exposure Photography.
This was clicked with a pot having illuminated candle inside and kept at the wall side, while a room was pitched dark. A nice spotlight pattern is created on the wall.
F/4.5 – S 2.5s – ISO 250
This is smoke photography. An incense stick smoke was illuminated with a mobile torch in dark room, with a dark sheet in the background to avoid the light dispersion.
F/5.6 – S 0.8s – ISO 400
During Diwali, I saw a child bursting a cracker and shot the scene from my balcony right from the top. The object is a ground wheel cracker rotating at a much greater speed.
F/13 – S 1/40s – ISO 640
This photo is dedicated to Dr. Sridhar Prasad who gave me an idea to make creativities with long exposures. Laser pointer was fired on a black cloth wall and name was written and a photo was clicked.
F/3.5 – S 8.0s – ISO 125
