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“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow." – Imogen Cunningham

“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.” – Edward Steichen

Long Exposure


Walking home tonight I knew I had to get this car with the wide angle lens and some light streaks in the background. However, since I don't bring my tripod with me everywhere, I had to stay really, really still. I imagined myself as a human tripod, and tried really hard not to breathe. And I took the same picture a LOT of times, just holding down the shutter forever with the camera set on burst mode. This technique has saved my bacon a bunch of times.

Focal length: 18mm (on a crop sensor). The widest focal length I own. At a longer focal length the diagonals here would be a lot less interesting.

Shutter speed: 0.8 seconds. Amazing! (The lens has IS. I am not this good on my own. Plus, wide lenses are a lot easier to handhold. But still, I'm impressed.)

Aperture: f/9. This got me those cool light stars in the background.

ISO: 1600. It was dark outside. With my camera, this ISO is a little noisy. But I can live with it.

3 comments:

  1. Very impressve handheld steadiness, even with IS. Now we know that you can hold your breath for 0.8 seconds (+/-).

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  2. So splendid for a hand held shot...you must be able to hold your breath for a long time! :) I love those bright star bursts as well!

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  3. Great image, and you must be a human tripod to hold so still!!!

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