Eighteen Examples Of Amazing Long-Exposure Photography

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Streaks of light, trailing stars, smoothly swirling water, surreal color gradients and stretched wisps of cloud - all of these effects are possible using a long-duration shutter speed when taking a photograph.

Long exposures are created by placing the camera on a tripod and leaving the camera's shutter open for an extended period of time, which captures the stationary elements of the scene in sharp detail but blurs the elements that move.