*** Mini Challenge #706 - Long Exposure ***

Thanks again to Richard for the first place.

This week’s challenge is Long Exposure. You can decide how long "long" is, but we need to see blur. One exposure only, please - no stacking for this one.

The challenge will end on Monday, August 1 at 9pm Central Time

Examples to follow.

Challenge Rules:

The host gives you a topic and you post up to three images that fit. Remember, it's all about fun, sharing, and learning. Any picture you have taken in person is eligible, regardless of the time taken, camera, or post-processing used. The host chooses the winners and honorable mentions and posts those in a new thread. The host's decision is final. The winner of this challenge then hosts the next challenge, judges the winner of that one, and so on it goes. The winner of this challenge will have 48 hours to post the next challenge. If that doesn't happen, 2nd place will have 24 hours to do so, then it's up to 3rd place.

Submission Posting Guidelines:

Post each one of your three submissions in its own reply to this post. Give each post a unique Subject, please. It is best to embed an image in its post rather than linking to somewhere else. Feel free to post photos "for exhibition only" if you want to share more than three, or won't be available to host the next challenge. Try to preserve the EXIF please, so we can see which camera, lens, and settings were used.

Comment Posting Guidelines:

Feel free to post comments on the images or ask for comments. Don't hesitate to click on the green "Like" thumb on the top right of the post, so we know which images were most popular. Likes are appreciated as much as constructive criticism is. The host can make up his or her own mind without being influenced by that. I wish you all "good luck" and let's see some interesting pics.

Recent Mini-Challenges:

705: Many Colors
704: Abstraction
703: Sunsets
702: Living Things - Other than Human
701: Not of this Earth
700: Nostalgia - Your Early Digital Camera Pictures
699: Picture of a Picture
698: Happy Faces
697: Music
696: Birds
695: Nature
694: Boats
693: Metal
692: There's "nothing" to shoot!
691: Favourites
690: Nostalgia
689: Winter
688: Travel/Vacation
687: Festive Lights
686: Animals
685: Plants
684: Night Scenes
683: Small machines (for work and leisure)
682: Autumn
681: Wabi-Sabi
680: Landscapes
679: One Dominant Color
678: Planes, Trains and Automobiles
677: Chocolate
676: Amusement ride
675: One lone flower
674: Food and/or Drink
673: The Road Less Traveled
672: Trees in Nature
671: Waterfalls
670: Mountains
669: Not Your Best Work
668: Speed
667: Round, or nearly round

(Sorry these are all similar - I'm traveling and don't have all my photos with me.)

I think I've only tried long exposures a couple of times.  But even those were less than a second.  Not my thing I guess.

Did you say blur ?

Not sure if this would qualify, two Iridium Satellites with the Sun reflecting off of their antennae, called an Iridium Flare. This was a 120 second exposure.

A tumbling creek, deep in the forest of Coos County, Oregon. I think the exposure was about 2 seconds or so.

Lone Ranch Beach, Samuel Boardman Scenic Byway, Oregon. 13 second exposure, it was almost dark, lol.

I was concerned this would exclude folks. Thanks for the nice entries, Don.

Looks blurred to me!

It qualifies. IMHO, star trails are blur.

irvcobb wrote:

Looks blurred to me!

Really

The biggest challenge was to shoot the UV-lit scene.

This one is on spot, but not that interesting IMO (off contest)

On the other side … What about this one - on spot ? (Off contest)

You want blur.  I'll give you blur !

Christmas lights

Don

rjgjr wrote:

Lone Ranch Beach, Samuel Boardman Scenic Byway, Oregon. 13 second exposure, it was almost dark, lol.

Richard,

This is a really nice picture.

Well done!

Steve Thomas

There are some very good entries here.

I'll try to enter sometime today.

stevet1 wrote:

rjgjr wrote:

Lone Ranch Beach, Samuel Boardman Scenic Byway, Oregon. 13 second exposure, it was almost dark, lol.

Richard,

This is a really nice picture.

Well done!

Steve Thomas

Thank you very much, Steve

Car trails

Star trails

"Burning like a house on fire"

I was hoping to see some "car trails" show up here.

irvcobb wrote:

I was hoping to see some "car trails" show up here.

I've thought about that but so far I've been unable to find a place to capture some, with a good composition, without being in a dangerous and / or illegal location...