Tag: long exposure
Weekly Prompts Photo Challenge: Clock the Time
I was considering a few ideas for the Weekly Prompts Photo Challenge: Clock the Time before thinking about using a timer app on a tablet to time long exposures.
My plan was to set up the shot when I was down at the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline for the sunrise. I would set the tablet on top of the camera bag as I usually do and take the shot at dawn.
The plan didn’t work out. I took my lightweight kit of three manual focus primes in a small bag so no lid to set the tablet on. Not that the choice of camera bags really mattered as I forgot the tablet. So I set up the shot at home in the afternoon.
This small tablet has a timer app allowing me to time long exposures at dawn and dusk. There’s also an app that shows sun rise and set and moon rise and set direction for any locations I’m not familiar with and an app that alerts me to the chance of a display of the northern lights.
Edit: It occurred to me after posting this that I hadn’t explained the reason why I need a timer app. Sometimes I use strong neutral density filters to given long exposure times. This allows me to blur moving water or clouds moving across the sky.
In fact there are apps that will calculate the exposure and time it for you. I have been doing the exposure calculations in my head so just use a timer app. Maybe I should investigate the calculator apps.
A sixty second exposure at dawn.
A couple of recent early mornings.
A couple of outings down to the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline for the sunrise. The first two outings for my recently assembled, lightweight, back to basics camera kit comprising of a small mirrorless camera body and three manual focus primes.
The first outing for the kit saw it and me caught in a thunderstorm and heavy rain shortly after the photo was taken. A 60 second exposure as it was a dark morning.
The following morning saw a lot less cloud and an absence of thunder rumbling and heavy rain.
July Squares: Blue Water, Rocks and Waves.
This is a contribution to Becky’s July Squares: Blue photo challenge.
A long exposure of waves breaking over rocks on the Lake Huron shoreline at sunrise. Taken from close to Dominion Lookout at the bottom of High Street in Southampton, Ontario, Canada.
Smooth Water, Soft Clouds
The new Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is Smooth.
This made me think of some of the long exposure shots I’ve taken to soften water and show movement in the clouds.
The shot I eventually selected is a 60 second exposure. The long exposure has smoothed the water out and softened the clouds.
Colpoy’s Bay and the Niagara Escarpment at sunrise.
23 minutes before sunrise.
A shot I was considering for my week 37 pick. A 50 second exposure of Colpoy’s Bay and the Niagara Escarpment before sunrise using a neutral density filter to achieve the exposure time needed. I wanted to blur the water and get some movement in the clouds.
