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Long Exposures

Tripods and ND filters. Long exposures turn moving water to silk and night to day.

photography long-exposure landscape
Biel as seen from Magglingen, total exposure time over the image stack is around ten minutes.
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The alps weren't visible with the naked eye anymore, but at about five minutes exposure, they appeared…
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Chasseral, August 14, 2017, during the Perseid meteor storm. There were a couple of meteors in the fifteen minutes I exposed this picture for, but all outside the frame.
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Chasseral, August 14, 2017. There's one Perseid meteor in the upper left quadrant of the image, and an aeroplane flying off towards the centre. The gap in the stars is due to one image in the stack being unusable - some idiot shone his car's headlights right into the camera.
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