Long exposures at night

[ThomWalker]

[xjay1337]

Nice!
 I'd love to have a DSLR to be able to mess around. It's amazing what you can do with the light and a long exposure :) I like the one where you wrote Golf haha.

Here's one my friend SLEEDS did of mine..



And one from the uk-mkivs Mega meet a buddy of mine took



(It was literally pitch black middle of the night in a field in the middle of nowhere, used a light in a tube!)

 

[Marc-5-GTI]

The ISS is going over this week... Try and get that in shot!

[jonm]

many years ago I tried this with a point and shoot camera...


Stick man by JonMorgan., on Flickr



Now this is the outcome


Skoda Octavia by JonMorgan., on Flickr


Deva Dubs VW Show 2013 by JonMorgan., on Flickr


Ibiza by JonMorgan., on Flickr

[Another Fluffer]

Nice pics!

[xjay1337]

That mk1 is lovely.

[rich83]

Foel Ortho Star Trails by Rich Wigley, on Flickr

[rich83]

Star Trails over Zell am See by Rich Wigley, on Flickr

[ThomWalker]

Some awesome pics

[Jack-j100]

Cool as f**k!!!!

[JohnRoberts]

Nice!
 I'd love to have a DSLR to be able to mess around. It's amazing what you can do with the light and a long exposure :) I like the one where you wrote Golf haha.

Here's one my friend SLEEDS did of mine..



And one from the uk-mkivs Mega meet a buddy of mine took



(It was literally pitch black middle of the night in a field in the middle of nowhere, used a light in a tube!)

 

What do you mean by light in a tube,can you explain please? Sorry not too good with cameras but my girlfriend just got me a nice one for my birthday and want to use it too it's full potential 

[xjay1337]

You have a like 1 minute exposure time and put a light or a torch in a device (eg a pringle tube cut in half) to direct light only in one direction. You can then light up your subjects while keeping the foreground and background relatively dark.

Hence why you can see a prominent black line where the light was kept from bouncing back. The main thing here is you have to be very careful to not let any light "stray" as in when you're moving across frame, you cannot point the light at the camera or the effect will be lost and it'll look like a flare's gone off.

[Top Cat]

Also an important point is to take eat all the pringles out of the tube before you start this process. And remember once you poppem! you cant stoppem!.