London Long Exposures at Dusk

I purchased a variable neutral density filter some years ago and was disappointed that it didn't work on my Fuji wide-angle lens. However I recently tried it on the X1000v and found it worked fine so I am now experimenting with very long exposures. Christmas Day was very murky and misty in London. Here are a few images that worked relatively well with the filter rotated to give 30-50 seconds exposures. Keeping the camera still on a fairly flimsy tripod proved a challenge!

Sheringham

Some images from Sheringham taken yesterday evening. Today is Holkham for a walk around the Park and Beach with RPS Nature Group. Hoping for a bright day and plenty of deer and birds!!

Edinburgh 2. Evening on Princes Street

The cloudless skies continued into the evening yesterday - here a few images from my walk back to West coates as darkness took over. The last two images are what happened when I forgot camera was on bracketing and mvoed the camera around during the long exposures!

  

Windy Skies at Wimpole

On Saturday, we had an East Anglia RPS and CCC outing to Wimpole Hall. I suggested a few projects to try at various locations around the Park, including long exposures. It was cloudless when we set off for our walk but clouded over very rapidly at lunchtime giving lots of opportunities for cloud trails, using a 10-stop neutral density filter to give  a shutterspeed of 25 secs.  Last two images are as we left in the afternoon (having visited the inside of the Hall) when the sun started to break through the clouds again.

 

Thames at Night

I walked back across London Bridge and along the North bank of the Thames as the path remains by the river on that side, taking images wherever I could find a flat surface to rest the camera. I then crossed the Millenium Bridge and the last  4 images are taken from the top of the Tate Modern. Images are not all totally sharp as it was cold and windy and I had forgotten gloves!

London 5. Familiar Landmarks in the Golden (well not quite!) Hour

We used the best light of the day to photograph across Westminster Bridge, down Horse Guards Parade and into Trafalgar Square. Images 6 and 7 are take at 1/8th sec and 13 second (more long exposures in next blog). I particularly like the penultimate image of the lady in red as it has an eastern European look though not sure how I achieved it.