176 Long Exposure Landscape Photographs With LEE Big Stopper
I’ve been trying to do some long exposures this last couple of weeks. I’ve been working on landscape photos, along with some long-exposure photography. I liked to pull out more color and more dynamics in the photo using the extended exposure technique.
I like it when you can shoot at the edges of the day. For example, in the Magic Hour or the golden hour before sunset, some blue hour period after sunset, or sunrise times. It’s cool to use that along with the clouds that are here in the Oregon area. What’s incredible about these long exposure effects is that you can leave the shutter open for, say, 30 seconds.
I’ve been working with a Lee big stopper; it’s like a ten-stop ND filter. I’ve talked about it a couple of times before, an excellent filter that works nicely. It’s a 10-stop filter. You can put that in front of the lens, and then you rack back your exposure ten full stops.
That allows you to take these long—exposure photographs, where you get the softened skies or softened waterscapes. You can get that effect during total daylight hours. Whereas usually, you’d be kind of stuck doing long exposure photos in actual low light circumstances. You can use this filter anytime during the day to get these long exposure effects.
With that Lee big stopper, you can throw that up in front of the lens and drop your exposure settings down to a point where it’s a real slow, long exposure. So you can capture the drift that the water will have over, let’s say, 30 seconds or a minute of exposure. Or you can catch the sense that the clouds have over, say, a minute or two minutes.
Many bulb exposure settings on most digital cameras only work up to 30 seconds. You can run that shutter for a more extended period if you have a trigger and then have it released. I find that most of the stuff I do is fine at around 30 seconds.
I like getting to use that. And it’s or opens up those opportunities you get at Blue hour or during golden hour to do some of those long exposure, sweeping landscape shots.
Working with water has been pretty cool. It’s kind of cool to stretch out the movement of the clouds, you don’t think about that as an active element a lot of the time, but it does look surreal, adds some softened look. exposures that blur out a lot of the distractions that might be there otherwise, so it’s fun to use it
I’m trying to work on some surrealism photos a lot of the time. So I’m having a pretty good time hanging out here and doing some photo editing stuff, some stuff with these long exposures.