looooooooong exposure

When I took up digital photography, I became an instant fan of the long exposure. Sure, you could make the same images with film, but the process was much more hit and miss.  Digital removed all that nonsense.

Anyway, I then stopped doing them for a while.  I think the novelty wore off.

But in the middle of my “Landscape Photography from a Car” Project I found myself at my favourite location in the Mumbles looking at the lighthouse I must have photographed a thousand times.  I shot the image I wanted for my project, and with the clouds shifting across the sky at a fair old lick I figured a nice, long exposure wouldn’t do any harm.

I used a 4 stop reverse grad. filter to hold back the brighter parts of the sky nearest the horizon, metered and exposed for that, then attached my Lee “Little Stopper” which turned the 2.5 second exposure into (6 stops later) 2 minutes and forty seconds.  Oh, I shot it in black and white too just for good measure.  I think it lends more drama to the scene.

I think I’ll get back into taking more of these.  They really slow you down and make for a more relaxed experience.

Fujifilm X-T2, Fujinon 10-24 f4.0 lens at 14mm

160 seconds at f11, ISO 200

tripod, cable release