In most types of photography, we capture short moments in time, for many disciplines it is essential to freeze all motion to create the sharpest possible photos.
Daytime Long Exposure (DLE) photography deviates from that approach and slows down, both the shutter speed, as well as the photographer’s actions.
The resulting images give the viewer pause. Capturing the element of time adds intrigue, serenity and an otherworldly feeling to photos, because clouds start moving and form silky bands in the sky, water smooths over to a mirror finish and people, cars, boats, airplanes and birds disappear, because their presence of a few seconds doesn’t register in an exposure of several minutes.
Busy streets suddenly appear empty and the rough ocean is tamed into a smooth, white mist.
Dyrhólaey Waves 4
Bottom-lit clouds reflecting in teh water
A 4 minute exposure as the sun extinguishes on a very still day, the clouds barely moved
Sunset with bottom-lit clouds on a very cold December afternoon
The Boston skyline from Nahant
A look through the urban canyon of Seaport
A beautiful afternoon at Walden Pond
The majestic Moai of Rapa Nui
Sedona, Arizona from above
With the Hore Abbey below on the right. A local was nice enough to show me this vantage point.
An iconic location, I got there just in time for a last light shoot, weather was drizzly, but I tickled some color out of it
Visualizing time, the long exposure shows how the clouds are deflected by the mountains and move around their tops.
Sunset reflections on the Mystic River. The water reflects some of the afterglow in orange pn the smoother areas, but also the blue sky from above on the rougher waves.
These are human-placed, bare trees to guide boats into harbor through the shallow channel. They call them clam trees, just for fun.
A view from Sunset Point in Bryce Canyon. Appropriately taken at sunset.
The Boston airport tower just before sunrise during a solar eclipse.
The Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon in Iceland. Peaceful.
