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Long Exposure Photography is a great way to be creative and make something unique with your camera, whether it be with a giant DSLR or your pocketable Smartphone. If you have never taken a long exposure photo in your life, you came to the right place. Read the how-to basics below. What is Long Exposure Photography? When you click a pic with your phone or camera, the shutter opens and closes, capturing the scene on to the sensor, thereby recording a 'Picture'. When there is a lot of light, this opening and closing of the shutter would be instant. Long Exposure photography is a way of taking a picture by letting the shutter open for longer periods of time - mostly seconds - and let the sensor capture everything that's happening in the scene during the time it is exposed. Those light trail shots and light painting shots you saw online are created by using this technique.  What's the Ideal scenario to take Long Exposure or Slow Shutter photos? Let's assume you ar...

Long Exposure Photography lets you expose a scene for many seconds and lets you create unique images. Light trails, Star Trails, Milky Way Galaxy shots, Light Painting etc are all created using various Long Exposure photography techniques. Is it possible to shoot Long Exposure on Mobile ? Answer is Yes .. and No. In order to shoot a long exposure, your phone must come with a Pro mode where you can choose a slower shutter speed. Many manufactures like LG Mobiles, Huawei, Honor, OnePlus etc have a Pro mode build in to their default camera app. Google Pixel phones on the other hand do not have a Pro mode and there is no way to shoot traditional long exposure photographs with those. Another way is to find a third party app that can shoot in lower shutter speeds. Lightroom Mobile Camera for an example has a Pro mode that lets you shoot manual and adjust ISO and shutterspeed. The problem here is, while the default camera app often supports up to 30 secs exposure, Lrmobile camera on ma...