Making an Night Landscapes Using Long Exposures – Tuts+ Premium

We have another Photo Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members today. In this tutorial, we take a step-by-step look making a long exposure of a street scene at night. Learn more after the jump!

Long exposure photography means leaving the shutter open and capturing a range of lighting and action. With this, we can give the viewer a sense of motion and the entire action that enters a scene. Today, we’ll look at how to get the scenes setup perfectly and teach you more about metering without the camera’s helping hand.

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