Slow-shutter pictures with motion-blurring effect
I got this idea from the latest issue of Photography Monthly. Taking the passenger seat of my car for a change, I asked CY to drive instead while I experimented with long-exposure shots. It wasn’t easy keeping the camera steady at all and I wished that I could have managed to get a sharper rendition of the dashboard instead. I will definitely try this some time in the near future again 🙂
I have been wanting to revisit this stretch of the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) where construction of the new Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) has been going on. When the KPE project is complete, this area will see the opening of Singapore’s first “spaghetti junction”, so-called because of the network of intertwining roads and fly-overs. I was wishing for a little bit of rain on the road to add some reflections and atmosphere when I took this last evening. Despite the absence of rain eventually, I was pretty happy with some of the shots I got.
After I put up the previous post, Dad commented that he found the light trials a little overbearing. I decided to put up this version sans light trials for a comparison. Getting the two shots post-processed to similar settings was a cinch with CaptureOne although I had to do some additional touching up in Photoshop to remove some light flares and sensor dirt. Which one do you prefer? 🙂