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Today is T is for Time Exposure.

Time exposure photography is also called long exposure.  Basically it “involves using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring the moving elements.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-exposure_photography)

I know you all have seen pictures like this. You can do this with night photography, you can create what is called “light painting”, where you move a light around in a dark room to create patterns, and you can do cool things with water blurring.

I have never tried pictures like this before.  To do it right, you definitely need a tripod, or something to set your camera on so it doesn’t move.

I’m going to try some light painting.  I need to find something to put the old camera on and will experiment with shutter speeds to see what works best.  I uses a box to put the camera on, and some candles.  It was kind of fun!

1 second exposure

2 seconds exposure

3.2 seconds exposure

Also 3.2 seconds exposure

4 seconds exposure

5 seconds exposure

6 seconds exposure

And finally, 8!!!  8 seconds exposure!!  Bwaaa haa haa haa!!!

Here’s a good tutorial site for light painting:  http://digital-photography-school.com/light-painting-part-one-the-photography/

Want to know more?  This is an excellent tutorial site for time/long exposure photography:  http://www.bwvision.com/complete-guide-long-exposure-photography-2016-edition/

To see some more cool examples of time exposure photography, go to http://digital-photography-school.com/long-exposure-photography/

And here are some great examples of real light painting:  http://lightpaintingphotography.com/

Welcome to today’s post for the great Blogging A to Z Challenge!

Today is S is for Saturation.

Saturation has to do with colour.  And you can do a lot with the colour of a photograph in post-production, for example in Photoshop.  According to http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/color_saturation.html, “color saturation is used to describe the intensity of color in the image.  A saturated image has overly bright colors. Using a graphics editing program you can increase saturation on under-exposed images, or vise versa.”

And, according to http://www.steves-digicams.com/knowledge-center/brightness-contrast-saturation-and-sharpness.html, “Saturation is similar to contrast, however instead of increasing the separation between shadows and highlights, we increase the separation between colors.”

And finally, “Saturation is a uniform bumping up the intensity of all colors in your shot, regardless of the starting point of the colors. This can result in clipping (over saturation of certain colors which results in loss of detail in those areas) and over saturation of skin tones leaving them looking too orange and unnatural.” http://digital-photography-school.com/vibrance-vs-saturation-in-plain-english/

Let’s look at a couple of pictures where I increased the saturation in post-production.  Each set of three shows normal, low, and high saturation levels.

And I can actually change the saturation by using camera settings, so let’s see what happens here.

Lowest saturation setting:

Highest saturation setting: