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This page is the introduction to my Long Exposure Photography series. Thanks for your LONG visit!

Long exposure photography sounds easier than it is. Yes, it involves a slower shutter speed, meaning the shutter is open for LONGER.

Long Exposure photography refers to photographs taken with slow shutter speed—in other words, with the shutter open for a long time. Long is relative, of course.

The setting-technique adds a sense of motion, and llivens up subjects like:

Blurred Wings

Trains And Cars In Motion

(Coming Soon) Water And Time

Star Trails

Lightning

Clouds Blown By Strong Winds

Some of these are shown below!

Clouds blown by strong winds, as well as stars made to look as though they are moving across the pre-dawn sky, heading to ground (Mt. Elden). Shot from Cheshire neighborhood, Flagstaff Arizona.

During our September 2023 photographic journey to Western South Dakota (as with Yellowstone and Alaska), our hearts were gladdened just being around a lot of water. After all, we live in a kind of high (7000' in elevatnion) deesert in a long-term drought.

In my separate post on motion blur of birds in flight, acheived through long exposure, I show what I consider the Goldilocks place between too blurry and glared on the one hand, and too sharp on the other (not blurred enough.

About 100 trains pass the Amtrak Station in downtown Flagstaff Arizona every day! My favorite restaurants in that vicinity draw me quite regularly. I mount a camera on a tripod, minimize my shutter speed, and always try to capture the blur inside some sharp context. The lamp post is that stable element in this photo.

This post is part of my Long Exposure Photography series.

Relevant: first content-rich post in Long Exposure series, "Blurred Wings"