In contrast to the fast shutter speeds I used for photographing the Syracuse Crunch hockey games, photographer Andrew S. Gibson’s ebook SLOW explores the use of long exposure photography. (See below for special discount codes) This is a kind of photography I call In Motion Photography and curate a weekly photo theme on Google+ featuring people’s captures of motion in still photos.

The first part of SLOW goes over long exposure hand-held photography techniques of Panning and Intentional Camera Movement (ICM). Though I am familiar with both of these techniques, Andrew had a couple of different ways of getting dreamy looking landscapes which I want to try out.  This part of the ebook closes with a case study by another photographer, Doug Chinnery, who explains in depth how he uses ICM to create beautiful works of art.  Like all motion photography techniques, getting good results with ICM takes practice and many exposures.  Doug summed it up best with this comment, “The results can be disastrous, but often amazing things emerge.”

The second part of SLOW explores the use of tripods and filters for very long exposures which can go into minutes or even hours instead of a fraction of a second.

Waterfalls make perfect subjects for long exposure photography like this one in Taughannock Falls State Park near Ithaca, New York.
Nikon D700/28-300VR, 4s, f/25, ISO 200, EV 0, 36mm focal length, tripod, polarizing filter.

Andrew talks about the equipment he feels is necessary and optional to slow and steady your camera to lengthen shutter speeds from multiple seconds to minutes to even hours by use of a tripod, polarizing and neutral density filters, location and time of day. He explains and shows the results of each filter using stunning photos from New Zealand.

SLOW concludes by going over how to correctly expose for long exposures, minimize noise, visualize composition, finding locations and working a scene once you find one to come back with photographs with the WOW factor using long exposures.  This section ends with another case study by photographer Joel Tjintjelaar who specializes in black and white long exposure photography.  Truly amazing work in which Joel explains his approach to using slow shutter speeds for high impact photographs.

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