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Look at the Graceful Path of an Attack Helicopter as It Spits Fire

This is what a US Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter looks like from a distance as it strafes the night sky: A graceful curve of light with only arcs of sparks to reveal that it’s actually spewing ammunition. This long exposure shot was taken during an exercise called Eager Centaur which took place in an…

Tech News Attila Nagy Feb 8

This Light Painting Pays Tribute to a Classic 1949 Navy Photograph

Navy photographer Eric C. Burgett pays homage to a classic 1949 Life magazine photoseries in this gorgeous shot of an MV-22 Osprey taking off from the Navy’s amphibious assault ship USS Boxer. Compare it to this 66-year-old masterpiece taken by Andreas Feininger for Life magazine: The Slinky-like light pattern was produced by a time-exposure of…

Tech News Attila Nagy Dec 15

You can make man made rainbows with this giant LED glow stick

Rainbows are visual desserts, you’re always happier after you see them. But we don’t see them enough! Not with a Pixelstick though. It’s a giant stick that has 198 LEDs that can be programmed to display colorful rainbows, 3D cubes, pulsating magic carpets and so on in your light paintings. Basically wave, set your camera…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 30

When a lightning storm rains down upon the Grand Canyon

Photographer Rolf Maeder recently traveled to the Grand Canyon in hopes of taking some pictures of the sunset, but an incoming lightning storm required a change of plans. This astonishing photo of multiple lightning bolts and brilliantly illuminated canyon sky is the result. Image: Rolf Maeder. Check out his website. Maeder writes: On the Moran…

io9 George Dvorsky Sep 25

This Amazing Video Made With Long-Exposure Photos Is Like a Hazy Dream

Does this video remind you of being drunk, dizzy, or in some woozy dream-state? Whatever feeling it conjers, you’ve definitely never seen animated photos like this before. Dancing Ghosts is a wonderful flight of fancy made up of sequential long-exposure photographs by Micaël Reynaud that were interpolated—essentially blended together with editing software—to create the weird…

Tech News Michael Hession Sep 5

This Font Was Created Using Light Streaks From an iPhone

This font, called Phone Streak, might not be the most practical typeface in the world, but it was probably the most fun to create—because it was put together by capturing long exposures of an iPhone being swept through the air. Created by Marcus Byrne—a motion graphics designer—the font was created using a technique known as…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Sep 4

Long-exposure photographs of fireflies create magical forest scenes

Photographer Yume Cyan has been recasting the fireflies around Nagoya City, Japan, as fairy lights in a series of long-exposure photos. The momentary flashing of each bug becomes part of a bioluminescent trail it winds through the trees. You can see more (and larger) photos from this series at 500px, where you can also order…

io9 Lauren Davis Jun 9

Geometric Light Paintings Drawn by Roombas

The Roomba can keep your floors clean, but with a little setup, they can also make art across your living room. Some Roomba owners have use their robot vacuum cleaners, LEDs, and a camera set to take long-exposure photos to create robot-made light paintings. If you dip your toe into the Roomba Art Flickr Pool,…

io9 Lauren Davis Apr 13

Long Exposure Photographs Reveal How Lovers Sleep

I’m such a wild sleeper that sometimes I wake up in the most awkward of positions. Face planted, facing the wrong direction, diagonal, on the completely other side—you name it, I’ve woken up in it. I was always wanted to know my movement patterns. Photographer Paul Schneggenburger created a photography series that showed long exposure…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 1

This long exposure shot makes a lightning storm look downright apocalyptic

Check out this spectacular and incredibly vivid long exposure capture by fine art photographer Amery Carlson. It’s a photograph of a lightning storm taken off the coast of Ventura, California (what is officially the city of San Buenaventura). Aside from how intricate each strand of lightning appears to be, I love how both the exit…

io9 George Dvorsky Jan 22

12 Audacious Abstractions Of The Human Figure

The human figure is one of the most classic motifs in art. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you used modern camera equipment to reimagine shape and movement. The results are fantastic. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-figure-abstraction-5974552 WINNER – Nice Kicks Seeing the competition 7 hours before going on holiday (it was 11pm, and I left at 6am), didn’t give…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 15

Forests, fog and light make these long-exposure photographs look like paintings

Here’s a little five minute vacation for your brain. Check out these gorgeous images from Polish photographer Boguslaw Strempel, who rises early to catch the stunning morning scenes pictured here. Captured in the rolling mountains of Poland and the Czech Republic, jaw dropping doesn’t begin to describe them. Writes Eugene at My Modern Net: It…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Nov 20

15 Incredible Long Exposures Made Even Longer

We already know that one long exposure photo can be incredible. But what if you stack multiple long exposures, combining their perspectives in Photoshop? You cover more time, you can see more light. And the effect is remarkable. Winner – Night Landscape This was taken in the high mountains above Los Angeles. High enough, thankfully,…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 12

Shooting Challenge: Steel Wool

You ever see a photo that looks like it’s raining sparks? It was probably made through a trick with steel wool. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you can try the technique yourself, BUT CAREFULLY, AND AT YOUR OWN RISK! The Challenge Create a long exposure photograph of sparks, using the classic steel wool trick.…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 15

32 Photos of People Frozen in Time

The world is always spinning. But what if we could stop, just for a moment, and let it all wash over us? These 32 long exposure photographs from this week’s Shooting Challenge consider the possibilities. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-frozen-in-time-5883738 WINNER – Ferris Halo Amanda Reed waits in line to ride a ferris wheel at the Arizona Centennial festival…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 14

Shooting Challenge: Frozen In Time

We’re surrounded by motion everywhere we go. Yet cameras capture still images, single moments. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll capture a person frozen inside a bustling, kinetic world. The Challenge In a single long exposure photo, capture a blurry world with a single subject (or small group of related subjects) frozen together in time.…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 9

Can You Find the Hidden Mothers in These Old Photographs?

Back in the olden days of photography, big box cameras had slow as snails shutters so it was nearly impossible to get kids to sit still for the duration of the long exposure. If they moved, the pictures would be blurry! So what was the old photog solution? Why let’s have their mothers hide under…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 23

New Year’s Eve as Seen Through Drunk Goggles

New Year’s Eve is a bit fuzzy more most of us, so it’s completely appropriate that, for this week’s Shooting Challenge, Gizmodo photographers captured blurry, long exposure photographs. Winner – At the Stroke What’s more emblematic of New Years Eve than a midnight kiss? Two kids in love were captured with a flash, then ambiance…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 3

Shooting Challenge: Long Party Exposures

New Year’s Eve is this weekend, meaning that most of us are attending parties. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I want you to capture that party…in a really long exposure. 15 seconds to 30 minutes. The Challenge Take a long exposure of an NYE party. The longer, the better. (And feel free to use lights…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 28

Experience Eric Curry’s Completely Surreal “Light Painting” Exhibit

Welcome to the world of “light painting.” It begins in darkness, and then over the course of an hour or hours, a photographer illuminates small portions of his or her subject, and combines the images in post to create this. In this picture’s case, with each shot the photographer takes a long exposure, sucking in…

Tech News Jack Loftus Oct 9

long exposure

Look at the Graceful Path of an Attack Helicopter as It Spits Fire

This Light Painting Pays Tribute to a Classic 1949 Navy Photograph

You can make man made rainbows with this giant LED glow stick

When a lightning storm rains down upon the Grand Canyon

This Amazing Video Made With Long-Exposure Photos Is Like a Hazy Dream

This Font Was Created Using Light Streaks From an iPhone

Long-exposure photographs of fireflies create magical forest scenes

Geometric Light Paintings Drawn by Roombas

Long Exposure Photographs Reveal How Lovers Sleep

This long exposure shot makes a lightning storm look downright apocalyptic

12 Audacious Abstractions Of The Human Figure

Forests, fog and light make these long-exposure photographs look like paintings

15 Incredible Long Exposures Made Even Longer

Shooting Challenge: Steel Wool

32 Photos of People Frozen in Time

Shooting Challenge: Frozen In Time

Can You Find the Hidden Mothers in These Old Photographs?

New Year’s Eve as Seen Through Drunk Goggles

Shooting Challenge: Long Party Exposures

Experience Eric Curry’s Completely Surreal “Light Painting” Exhibit

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