Exposure is all about the total amount of light enters the camera. The three things which control the amount of light enters the camera are Aperture Size of the Lens, Shutter Speed and ISO value. To learn more about Exposure Basics read these tutorials.
The word Long Exposure refers to the Slow Shutter Speed. Actually the concept is so simple, when you expose your framed scene to the image sensor of your camera for a longer period of time and so allows more amount of light to enter the camera means you are shooting with Long Exposure. Now the question is why would you do that since shooting with long exposures might end up with blown out photographs. Obviously, if you shoot with long exposures in direct sunlight during daytime, you will end up shooting super over exposed or blown-out photographs. But if you know the situations where you should use Long Exposure, you will glad that you can shoot that way. The two situations where you would like to shoot with Long Exposure are to create a bright photo in low light conditions or to create motion blur to the moving elements of the photograph.
Let's see some interetsing photos which creative photographers have taken with Long Exposures.
In the following photograph the photgropher has used Long Exposure and thus created a motion blur which has created an interesting effect for the moving waves.
Photograph taken by DieterThePhotographer
In the photograph below the Long Exposure has been used to capture the dark bridge. The use of slow shutter speed let the photographer capture the dark bridge so beautifully.
Photograph taken by idg
We hope you are now ready take some Long Exposure Photos. We would love to see what you create, leave the links of your shots in the comment section.
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