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What is light trail photography?

What is light trail photography? - Alpha a7 Tutorial

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What is light trail photography?

- One way of using light painting is a lot like light trails. What you can do is go into an environment where you're apt to see light trails such as traffic at night. In this case, I block off the shot, and simply take a exposure of what's happening, allowing traffic to move through the scene. I recommend taking the first shot when the traffic isn't moving, maybe an empty frame. Then wait till some cars come by, and take a second longer shot. Anything like 10 or 20 seconds will do. And what happens is that the lights become elongated. This can then be easily composited inside of your device, and create a light painted image. This is a fun, simple way to paint with traffic. All right, let's try some other options here in the studio.

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