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evil4blue · **Creativity Exercise #16: Long Shutter Shootout -** 07-05-2006, 07:50 AM

Creativity Exercise #16: Long Shutter Shootout

Sorry for the late start, but the new house and all the moving has put a serious damper on my Internet time.

It's time to schlep your gear out at night. I'm looking for bulb mode photos. Leave that shutter open for a while and see what you get. You can also try some light painting (use a flash light or spot light to paint an object with light while the shutter is open).

**Normally I request only basic photo editing, but this time you can do whatever editing you want.

**Each participant can post as many shots as they like, but try not to go crazy.

Next Exercise: 08-01-2006

iCe · 07-05-2006, 08:04 AM

Painting with fire.

PeteQ · 07-05-2006, 09:14 AM

Alright, I posted a version of this before, but since it fits the exercise, what the heck....

Four-minute exposure, cross processed.

NoLight · 07-05-2006, 03:00 PM

Just some car driving by!!!

laurielblack · 07-07-2006, 07:28 AM

I took this when I set up for fireworks the other night...I was trying out the remote and the bulb setting, which I had never used before. This was taken at f/13, 20 seconds, with the Tokina 12-24 lens. It's a rather boring landscape with nothing going on, but I did like how the light turned out in the foreground with all the headlights from the cars pulling into the field behind me.

Spooty · 07-10-2006, 12:23 PM

Muziks · 07-10-2006, 01:37 PM

I'm new taking pics and new in this forum, I LOVE IT!!!
I would like to do this creativity excercise, but I have a little problem, how can I leave the shutter open? I have a canon 300d rebel
thanks for ur help

hookem · 07-10-2006, 01:42 PM

This was taken on my kitchen island with a blue keychain light.

6s f/5.0 at 12.8mm iso80

Night Owl · 07-10-2006, 08:36 PM

Taken from the roof level of the Terminal E garage at IAH. BAW2028 rolling out for London - Gatwick between the China Airlines A340 (foreground) and a Saudi Royal Flight 747SP.

D70 + Sigma 70-300mm (POS) | ISO200 f16 for 20" @ 300mm

evil4blue · 07-11-2006, 06:31 AM

Wow Matt, that a pretty cool picture. Very abstract and familiar at the same time.

Sonny · 07-11-2006, 06:42 AM

Michelle Allmon · 07-18-2006, 01:25 AM

Muziks,
Go into manual mode & when you are choosing your shutter speed, keep scrolling until it says "Bulb." You have to hold down the button for the entire exposure, so get one of those remotes you can attach to your strap (they're cheap) and before you take the pic, press the button on top of the camera that has a symbol that looks like a timer. When that symbol's on the screen, set everything up and use your remote to make it open and press the button again when you want it to close.
Hope all that makes sense to you, I don't have my camera with me.

Michelle Allmon · 07-18-2006, 01:32 AM

Oops, I forgot to add my picture. I took this like a month ago but I can't take a new pic right now (camera in shop). I hope you like it.

25 second exposure, F-18, ISO 200

david seale · 07-30-2006, 10:19 PM

no bulb mode...but it is a few seconds

Michelle Allmon · 07-31-2006, 01:53 AM

hey, that's pretty sweet!