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Easy Steps to Great Long Exposure Landscape Photography

Over the last couple of years, long exposure landscape has become a hot topic in photography industry. It has also got a lot of coverage on photo sharing websites and photography magazines. If you have stumbled upon beautiful long exposure landscape photos, there is no way you can resist the urge to take pictures like that yourself. This type of image is always full of life and much more dynamic unlike a traditional image. Instead of capturing images in split seconds, long exposure landscape photography gives us a view of what a landscape looks like over seconds, minutes and possibly hours.

Long exposure landscapes can be very impressive and captivating. However, you need some practice and patience before you can get it right. In this article, you will learn some great steps to perfect long exposure landscape photography:

Location Matters a Lot

When it comes to long exposure landscape photography, location is the most important factor you should consider. If you need to get a beautiful long exposure image, you must first choose a landscape that is perfect for this type of photography.

When choosing your location, make sure that there is something in the scene that will indicate movement or passage of time for instance, a waterfall, a river, passing clouds or waves crashing on the beach.



Your Timing

After choosing your location, the next thing you need to get perfect is the timing of your photos and this requires you to be a lot patient. Since you will be working with long shutter speeds, you will need lighting for your long exposures.

You can get the perfect lighting in two ways - the first way is during the golden hour time periods i.e. early in the morning or late in the day. Another way to get good lighting is to add modifiers to the camera to diminish the light that is coming in through the lens.



Carry along Proper Equipment

One situation you want to avoid is getting to your location to discover that you don't have some equipment you need. You will need to get everything you need for long exposure landscape photography on time before moving to your location.

Some of the equipment/tools you need include:
  • §Wide angle lens
  • §A sturdy tripod
  • §A remote shutter release
Dial in the Correct Camera Settings

Long exposures require that you make adjustments to other parts of exposure triangle. What this implies is that you need to maintain sharpness while bringing your aperture down as far as possible and also reducing your ISO to the lowest setting. This setting will enable you to increase your exposure time up and give you enough time to capture movement in your image.

Shoot in RAW

Shooting in the RAW is best in long exposure photography; it allows you to maintain all the information collected by the camera's sensor. Another benefit of shooting in the RAW is that you will have more data to work with during the post-processing. This is better than other formats such as JPEG.

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