Although I am mostly a people photographer, I have a passion for architechtural detail and I love to do long exposures. There is something magic about going out in near pitch dark with a camera and tripod and capturing light in a completely unusual and often unnatural looking manner.
Long exposures are images in which shutter speeds are very long, just because it takes a long time for the little available light to create a digital image. Because the duration of the exposure is too long to be safely hand held, you will need a tripod, and often a degree of patience and several layers of warm clothing.
The image I have for you today is a long exposure of the Vauxhall Bridge in Great Yarmouth, just by the Train station. In fact the bridge was designed to take railway locomotives back in the 19th century as well as provide a footpath for pedestrians. Unfortunately this beautiful bridge had fallen in disrepair, but is now being renovated, thanks to National Lottery Funding. This link gives some extra detail on the planned works.
This is my take on the Vauxhall Bridge at night, works are already in progress to the left hand side of the image, on the main bridge however I still managed to capture the character of the old bridge before it's blasted and painted back to glory.
For the techies, this is a 30 second exposure at 100ISO at F7.1. No additional lighting was used. Hope you like the image and look forward to your comments. I'm going to fish out a few long exposures from my archives as well as photograph new ones soon, so watch this space! :)
I actually really really like it! I need to try those settings ;)
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