Comments on: Amazing Long Exposure Photos

By: SB

SB — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:50:38 +0000

Not all lighthouses give a continuous beam. Some flash their light as well as rotate. Could be what happened here.

By: erin

erin — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:22:21 +0000

All of these look other-worldy and ethereal. I think my favorite are the ones of stars over hour long exposures.

By: Tempscire

Tempscire — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:14:56 +0000

Every one of those pictures is amazing.

By: akhan246

akhan246 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:59:12 +0000

This is a cool post, the lighthouse pictures are the best! I've always wondered how they got pictures to look like that.

By: The Slapster

The Slapster — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:44:27 +0000

I used to fool around with time exposure shots a long while back, fun stuff. I never got anything this inspired though, that carnival shot & the fireworks are fantastic!

By: Wes

Wes — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:57:24 +0000

As the photographer mentioned in his comments, the lens was not rotating during this shot. Light, however, would still bleed in every direction from the lighthouse and would appear very bright in every direction during a long exposure, accentuated by the fog. I imagine the separate beams we're seeing is due to the window frames.

By: SparkS

SparkS — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:24:05 +0000

I'm with Zo on this one. I was confused at first and after I read the photogs comments I was more confused.
I've seen a lot of lighthouses in operation. The lens shoots out a single very powerful beam of light. A time exposure should show, one beam of light since the lens was not turning. After the lens is fired up a time exposure would show a large area of white everywhere the beam of light went. Just as Zo wrote. A multiple exposure would get the result in this photo. But it doesn't take the lens 2 minutes to make one revolution so it is still confusing. Unless the rotation was timed precisely and the camera lens was opened at exact times the individual beams would be in more than those places and wouldn't line up perfectly. Something is definitely not making sense.

It IS a beautiful picture though!

(not to worry, at my age a LOT of things don't make sense)

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:52:38 +0000

Truly neat, I hope this inspires many more photo-hounds to greatness.

By: Zo

Zo — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:42:45 +0000

That actually looks like multiple exposure rather than long exposure. I just figure the light going around the lighthouse would be solid. It looks great though!