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Mobile Long Exposure Photography Basics

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...