Week 6 - Long Exposure

During the class we were looking at long exposure's, using a long shutter and the BULB setting that some cameras have.  To create the light streems in the images we used torches, mobile phone lights and added gels to change the colours of the light streems.

Here are a couple of the pictures taken.

S 30 secISO200,  F 11

S 30 SecISO 200, F 11

And here are the images merged in photoshop using layers.

I really enjoyed this session and think this is something you could have a lot of fun with, i do however feel as a subject it could be quite limited!!

Long exposure can also be used for motion panning as explained in the hand out from Dave.  I really like this effect and by using a long exposure and moving alongside your subject, this should keep the subject in focus whilst blurring the background, I found this diagram below showing how its done.

How to make a panning shot with a motion-blurred background:

Panning diagram, top view

I had a look at some images in google to see how other people have used this technique and have added a few examples below;

I think this could be really effective when using wildlife as a subject.