looooooong exposures

I'm a huge fan of long exposure image making.  You know the sort of thing?  Milky waterfalls, misty ethereal seas - that sort of thing.

It's quite a powerful technique to enable a picture to tell a story, and to turn a pretty view into a piece of art.

It's not quite as simple as holding your camera's shutter button down and hoping for the best though.  And over the many years I've been taking such images I've developed something of a comprehensive workflow to ensure I get more keepers and fewer rejected images.

Fujifilm GFX50R, Fujinon GF 23mm f4
1/3rd of a second at f16, ISO 100
tripod, self-timer release
Haida Circular Polarising Filter, Kood 3-stop Neutral Density Filter

If you like, you can watch my latest YouTube video on this subject, or you can download a PDF of my workflow.  Links to both are below.

Watch the video here:

Download the PDF here:

PDF