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Working the long-exposure shot of the lake

Working the long-exposure shot of the lake

From the course: Travel Photography: New Zealand's Lake Wanaka

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Working the long-exposure shot of the lake

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- It's so important with long exposures to really study the histogram. A minute, eight-second exposure is really stacked to the left. It's under-exposed. This is simply a matter of adjusting based on what you learn from the histogram. The light, middle of the day, it's not changing too much except the clouds are moving and the sun's going in and out. It's just a matter of experimenting. Let's take another exposure. This time, instead of a minute, eight, I'm going to go all the way to two minutes. I want to push that histogram off that left wall. Again, we're going to keep all our settings the same, bulb mode, we lock the remote shutter, we get our timer going, and then, at the end of two minutes, let's see what we get. We've just completed our two-minute exposure. The histogram's much better. You can see it's still a little bit on the left, but that's because I've kept the foreground very dark and the left side's very dark, but the tree is really popping against the streaky clouds…

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