Double Long Exposure
This is a double exposure. The shutter is open for 20 seconds. For the first 10 the subject holds a pose. Then they jump and held another pose. In this case the subject got too ambitious and fell over so there are actually three exposures. This was at night, after the sun had set over the Kalutara hills. The light you see on the plants is not visible to the naked eye. All we saw was dark. However, all that information is there, if you keep the shutter open long enough. I find it weird, ghostly, ethereal. Some of the lighting you get from long exposures is another world, neither day nor night. I’m used to cameras approximating what we see during the day, but it can exceed what we see at night, sometimes taking us to strange places.
These are a few older long exposures. Not double, just spooky
Inside abandoned house on Skelton road, dead of night. Person walking and smoking
Kanatta Cemetery, at night
Posted on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 in Photography, Tech.
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wow it looks so amazing can you teach me how to do that?
WOW the first and the third are so cool.
Mind sharing the shutter/apature info?
WOW! good stuff
How can the second one be in the dead of night ? I can see the colour of grass and the setting sun !! may be I am seeing things ?
As Indi has said, if you keep the shutter open for long enough you get the colors. Of course you need a tripod though.
f 2.8?
It’s f2, just keeping the aperture as big as possible. You need a camera where you can control shutter speed, then just keep it open for 10, 15, 30, whatever. You have to put he camera on something, hand shakes too much. Tripod is great, but I usually use a table or glass or tree or something
Thought so. I tried a few recently with such settings (f4, I think) but too much light caused it to be not so good. It’s a bit hard for me to find a dark place around where I live. LOL.
Btw, do you use a low ISO? I prefer a 100 or 200 max.