The Ultimate Guide to Long Exposure Photography | Create Stunning Photographs Today!

Today I show you everything I know about long exposure photography, to be able to take amazing photos that stand out from the norm!
If you ever wondered how to smooth out rough seas, make waterfalls look like they were moving, to getting rid of movement all together, this will get you shooting those as well as many other types of photographs.

You will need a tripod and a camera, and that's it ... unless you want to long exposure photography in the day, then you will also need ND filters.

I suppose you could called this a landscape photography vlog ... but I prefer on location landscape photography!

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Timecode:
0:00 - Long Exposure Photography - The most awesome guide...in the world x6
1:08 - The Basics of long exposure photography
2:34 - An example of different exposure times on movement
3:55 - The simple steps to getting long exposure photographs
8:32 - Get this ND filter if it's your first one
8:52 - What is a stop of light?
9:11 - What ND filters do...
10:30 - The app I use all the time
10:54 - Which ND filter is best?
11:25 - A note about Variable ND filters and photography
11:53 - Avoid these filters
12:23 - Waterfalls and streams
13:21 - Blurring clouds
13:59 - Photographing waves

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[apb]

Mike I don’t know why your channel doesn’t have millions of subscribers. Your delivery of information is exceptional and the editing is fun as well. Thank you for the approach and support you are offering

[OG-Everthing]

The best photography channel on YouTube period... thank you for all these informations and demonstrations ...this courses are university level...big respect teacher

[dingo]

This is my favourite photography topic, nothing like it, fresh air peaceful calming. Thanks Mike.

[hhkk]

Very informative! Thank you. Love your tutorials!

[stephenwoodburn]

This was a great overview of long exposures, Mike. It has been a little while since I did long exposures, but this video may get me out there to play a little. I love the effects of long exposure photography. It is still looking chilly there, unless you filmed this one a while back. We are in full on summer over here. Take care brother.

[samdavies]

I've been trying to find a video that simply explains long exposure and ND filters for about a month now and not found anything as good as this video. Love how you show the pictures with all the different exposure times and even without a filter. I'm new to it all and trying to figure out how it all works and what I'll need to buy to progress. Thank you for the video

[francequirion]

Amazing tutorial! You have covered the subject in a very extraordinary manner, thank you so much for the share of your knowledge. There is so much valuable informations in this video and you go on every aspect we need to know. I'm a new follower!

[MrOkiparker]

Really well explained pal, that was amazing.

[jeffpratley]

Another great vid, Mike. About the bag anchoring the tripod - I saw this tip several years ago: pack a short bungee cord, and hang it between your tripod anchor point and the bag. The bag can then rest on the ground and won’t swing, but will still have enough heft to keep the tripod reasonable steady. Not in a gale, of course, but it’s surprisingly effective…

[findermanimages]

Bloody hell ... there's a whole lot of information going on in this video. This is going to need several revisits! 🤯😉 That said, what a damn good, and informative, video it is. I know very little about editing and putting videos together but I'm guessing that was a whole lot of work. Fantastic work, Mike! 🙌🏼. Closing in on 100k subs - well done mate - thoroughly deserved 👍🏼

[StevenLawson]

This is a very comprehensive, easy to follow guide - thanks very much

[Mr.A_LDN]

This video is fantastic and exactly what I needed..Thank you 🙏🏼

[NoDoSwLa]

As said. Such a precious channel. Glad I've found it a while ago. Have a great day Mike

[wanneske]

Great video ! Somethings I experienced : 1)the glass rectangular filters are very fragile, I broke mine. Now I only use screw on filters 2) variable nd-filters are no good 3) an nd-grad (which makes the sky darker) creates a picture you can't fix in post. it's beter to use a normal nd-filter and process the sky in post on your computer

[YoBroz-ixrq]

Info and guidance mixed with education, all packed in high quality videos. Thats what you do! Thank you.
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[ArminSteiner]

Great Informative video, thanks for putting so much effort I to them. I saw you are using also Photo Pills, a video on that would be awesome 😀

[thedronemediacomvancouver]

I love this channel. The speed and the explanations are awesome.

[LC-brxf]

I wish I saw this video before I tried long exposure at the beach. I did mine in the evening when it was getting dark, and I did a 20 second exposure but looking back at the image I think it was too slow. Now I have watched this video I will order some ND filters and re-try this type of photography. Thanks Mike! :)

[paulm]

Vid lives up to “ultimate guide” label, Mike. My guess is that lots of viewers will be replaying this one and taking notes. Nice.
Cityscapes sometimes shot at longer exposures to eliminate crowds moving about — something you aluded to. Good DSLR, NR and IBIS tips as well. Cool “color shift” demo and camera screen timer overlay.
Wish Sony had the Olympus long exposure “live view” feature — the LCD gradually displays the image as the light accumulates — so you can stop the capture when things look right.
Moving sky issue can be solved via in-post sky replacement, as needed.
Picnic table, a plus😊.
Not to beat a dead horse, noticed again that the YT “bell” posting messages for this one and one by Henry Turner were time stamped 5/18 1:02 PM (US Eastern Daylight Savings Time). Don’t get that odd thing elsewhere. Starting to think “Mike” and “Henry” are avatars of the same guy😊. Kidding aside, Mike, what’s a logical explanation for this? You guys on the same Internet provider? Cheers!

[echoauxgen]

Sony mod 1 and 2 has two on camera apps for images Digital Filter and Sky HDR do long exposer first then short exposure