Category Archives: long exposure

Washed Ashore

Posted by Mike on

I know I am addicted to books. I rarely throw a book away or even give it away. I have been known to loan out a book but if I do I will be after you to get it back to me. When I started down this photography journey I immediately turned to books. I wanted to read about this new joy of mine. To learn as much as I could.

And I don’t just borrow them from the library, I buy them. They become part of my collection. Imagine my joy when after receiving one of David duChemin’s books from my kids for Christmas I discovered his Craft & Vision website. I found the eBooks! Admittedly I went a little nuts. I’m still working my way through reading all the ones I downloaded.

I recently finished Andrew Gibson’s book Slow – The Magic of Long-Exposure Photography. I have known about and even attempted some long exposure images but reading this book really opened my eyes to new possibilities. I’m no reviewer so I will defer to Scott Thomas at Views Infinitum who reviewed this book last November.

Here is another image from my night at Delta Lake which is a result of Gibson’s eBook…

Washed Ashore Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 5s, 19mm, f/18, ISO 100

Washed Ashore
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 5s, 19mm, f/18, ISO 100

And the same image in its original color version…

Washed Ashore - Color Version Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 5s, 19mm, f/18, ISO 100

Washed Ashore – Color Version
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 5s, 19mm, f/18, ISO 100

Slow

Posted by Mike on

Late yesterday afternoon I went down to the creek behind the house to play with some long exposures. I broke out the 2-stop ND filter to see what I could capture. Definitely had a great time exploring the creek bed. I now know I need more filter and I definitely want to get to a place with more motion, like a lake shore or beach along the ocean. I think a trip is in order…

Slow 1 Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 3s, 17mm, f/16, ISO 100

Slow 1
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 3s, 17mm, f/16, ISO 100

Slow 2 Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 1.6s, 24mm, f/16, ISO 100

Slow 2
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 1.6s, 24mm, f/16, ISO 100

Slow 3 Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 2s, 17mm, f/16, ISO 100

Slow 3
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 2s, 17mm, f/16, ISO 100

Slow 4 Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, (1.3, 5, 20s bracket), 19mm, f/16, ISO 100

Slow 4
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, (1.3, 5, 20s bracket), 19mm, f/16, ISO 100

Assignment 23: Winter

Posted by Mike on

Scott Thomas, a fellow CNY photographer, hands out assignments every other month on his Views Infinitum blog. The current assignment due tomorrow is Winter (Assignment 23: Winter). Of course when Scott assigned this task we were at the start of a January thaw here in Central NY. But that should not have mattered because what he was actually looking for was what winter means to you, which does not necessarily involve snow.

I have quite a few images that I would classify as winter and would work for this assignment but last night as I headed out to shovel the driveway it finally hit me, what winter means to me is shoveling. There are a few tasks that I actually look forward to around the house. Not because I enjoy them but because they provide me that alone time where my body does the chore without much thought from my brain and my brain wanders through lots of different topics. During the summer mowing the lawn provides me with the same opportunity.

I ran back inside, grabbed the camera and created this image. It is a long exposure that I stepped out of half way through because like I said, my body does the chore but my mind is elsewhere…

Winter Chore Nikon D5100, Nikkor 35mm f/1.8, 28s, f/8, ISO 400

Winter Chore
Nikon D5100, Nikkor 35mm f/1.8, 28s, f/8, ISO 400

Solitude

Posted by Mike on

I found this scene on my way home from the library the other night. I knew I had to return and capture it before the snow disappeared. Another entry in my Monochrome Winter series.

Solitude Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 30s, 28mm, f/20, ISO 100

Solitude
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 30s, 28mm, f/20, ISO 100

Water Lights

Posted by Mike on

I have captured this bridge a few times over the past year and a half but I never ventured out at night. There were a few scenes I wanted to explore last night and although not all of them panned out for me, this image of the walkway bridge over the end of the Black River as it enters the barge canal turned out as I had hoped. There is something about reflected lights on water that just fascinates me.

Water LightsNikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 50s, 26mm, f/20, ISO 100

Water Lights
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 50s, 26mm, f/20, ISO 100

Pre-Sunrise over the Thruway

Posted by Mike on

My plans changed this morning when I received a text from an operator at work and I decided it was easier to drive in to help him. I ended up staying about an hour getting some parts in place to make tomorrow a little easier. As I left work around 6:30am the sun was just making its presence known in the sky. I decided it would be a good time to capture the image I have been wanting from the pedestrian walkway over the NY State thruway.

I had the lens as close as possible to the chain link fence but I just couldn’t keep it out of the image. I suppose if I didn’t have the wide angle lens on the camera it would have been easier to not include the fence. The colors in the sky and the light trails from the cars is what I really wanted anyway. Mission accomplished…

Pre-Sunrise over the ThruwayNikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 15s, 70mm, f/22, ISO 100

Pre-Sunrise over the Thruway
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 15s, 70mm, f/22, ISO 100