Tag: long exposure

Don Pettit ISS startrails shot

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While Chemical Engineer Dr Don Pettit was up on the ISS doing Chemical Engineering stuff, he also did some photography. And wow.

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Those yellow streaks are city lights as the ISS speeds over the surface of the earth, and the blue/white flares are lightning. The white vertical stripes in the distance are star trails.

There’s a bit more to this image than simple long exposure, but fortunately, Doc Pettit has also done a video so that when you’re up in space, you’ll be able to recreate his work. In the meantime, go and have a look at the Flickr album with the rest of his amazing photos.

Sky Shot

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This photo, shared by the Isle of Man Tourism Facebook page is of the Milky Way over the Calf of Man:

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Photo by Brook Wassall: see more of his Manx stuff here.
The red light is Thousla rock, which has a small lighthouse on it, because it has a bit of history. Some people were commenting that Brook should have removed the red light, but I think it makes it more “real”: it could almost be CGI without it.

Glowsticks and Waterfalls

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You know I like my long exposure stuff.
So this, via here.

Photographers Sean Lenz and Kristoffer Abildgaard of From the Lenz have come up with a brilliant light painting concept that produces gorgeous results. For their project titled Neon Luminance, they dropped glow sticks into waterfalls and then used long exposures to capture the bright and colorful trails as the sticks were carried down stream.

And here are some results.

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Beautiful.

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And there’s more here.

After dropping the sticks into various waterfalls in Northern California, they used exposures ranging from 30 seconds to 7 minutes to capture the movement of the sticks. For variations on the theme, they used different colored sticks and bundles of sticks strung together.

As for me, I’m still meaning to do this.

12 minute exposure

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Not me in the sun today, although 90 minutes of football in the merciless African heat did sap my energy somewhat. A relaxing braai this afternoon has left me with very little time, so here’s a photo I’ve wanted to share for quite a while:

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This is from Sheffield photographer Dan Arkle and features Stanage Edge, which we’ve featured before. For this shot, Dan popped his camera on a 12 minute exposure and climbed up and down the edge while wearing a headlamp.

Dan has plenty of other great shots of Sheffield and surrounds on his site, which is well worth a visit.