Long time exposures

Long time exposures

Motion Blurring
Usually we try to avoid motion blurring but when used to the extreme (with long time exposure) the resulting pictures are often great. Just have a look at the image below. It was exposed with about 20 seconds so the cars on the highway transform to lines of light.

Bridalveil
The "Bridalveil" effect is typically used with waterfalls. It's finally nothing else than a simple long-time exposure so you need a tripod here. The effect starts to get obvious with exposure from 1/2 second and up. The surrounding environment remains the same while the falling water produces stribes of bright light on the film. The longer you expose the more enhanced is the Bridalveil. The optimal exposure time is also dependend on the height of the waterfall but I would suggest about 4-8secs as a rough rule.