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What is long exposure photography?

What is long exposure photography? - Alpha a7 Tutorial

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What is long exposure photography?

- We're here at the historic mill and behind me is the actual wheel that turns when water hits it. Now, the gear isn't currently engaged but you can see that the water is starting to hit the surface and flow across. What I'd like to do is really drag that action out. Now, there's a great app called Smooth Reflection that is designed for lots of different situations where you have water or mist or waves and let me walk you through some of the choices. If I go into the menu settings here, I'll go ahead and bring this up and you'll see that essentially there's a wide range of options. So the choices here include the ability to shoot reflections at twilight. This is really good if you want the water surfaces to reflect light. The one I'm gonna use here which is for water flow, which is gonna turn flowing water into really a more smooth looking image. They have another setting that's specifically designed for a silent type look. So it take the surface of water and makes it look very still…

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