Tonight a fog had enveloped the surrounding area. It was lovely to see, and I wanted to capture something outside at night. I drove around in hope wanting to use the atmospheric fog, but to no avail. So, I decided to drive to a bridge that overlooks a major road a few miles away.
I set up my tripod and took lots of shots of the traffic below, using a low aperture and a long exposure (the longest exposures I've done so far). I did very little in post-processing, as the shots didn't really need much changing. Again, I had trouble choosing my favourite photo for today, so if you're interested a few others can be found on my Flickr page ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/vikdaddy/).
For tonight's shots I had to use the 'bulb' setting on my camera. This setting means the shutter was kept open for as long as I kept my finger on the trigger button. Some of my exposures were up to and around three minutes long, so not having a remote shutter release meant my index finger got cramp! I need to get me one of those, and quickly...
Semi-professional photographer based in Nottingham, England, I shoot mainly events and weddings. I'll be posting my work using my Fujis - X100S and X-Pro1.
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@wahyusp I just kept it down for as long as I thought was needed. I pressed it when there were no cars and let go again when there were no cars, so no trails were broken.
Thank you so much to replying to my question. I took your advise and canceled the original and reloaded the same picture once more. it worked only I lost the few comments I had on the first upload. but better that than making a fool of myself..3 pictures..ha ha
Thank goodness for the "favorites" page, I don't know how I missed this the first time around. I so love this shot, the nice lines and simple colors--AWESOME ! ! !
how did you guess the bulb should be?
44 sec was really long duration.