Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: long exposure

A few years ago, Steve and I joined our local photography club. One of the first monthly assignments was doing night photography, and I was really excited to try this out on my husband's 5D Mark I. My husband helped me set things up and I had lots of fun playing around with long-exposure images of the night sky. Here is an image of the Big Dipper withe the partial moon looking on.

Back in Feb 2012, Steve helped me take my first long-exposure images with my 5D Mark II camera. It was a lot of fun to press the shutter release and just stand there for ages before the shutter finally closed and took the picture. I liked this one for its dramatic sky. Incidentally, the pine needle shown in my previous image was on the tree you see here!

Winner of FlickrDuel contest: Alpha Color Explosion! This image was taken at the Josephine County Fair on August 20, 2011.

This image was taken at the Josephine County Fair on August 20, 2011.

My husband and I went to the fair specifically to take long-exposure shots of carnival rides for our first time! Lots of fun, we can't wait to go to another one! If you'd like to see more of my carnival ride images, please visit my set, "Carnival Rides"! Winner of FlickrDuel contest: +10 Wins: Color: Orange This image was taken at the Josephine County Fair on August 20, 2011. Photo AwardsCounter Click here to see the awards count for this photo. (?)

This image was taken at the Josephine County Fair on August 20, 2011.

This image was taken at the Josephine County Fair on August 20, 2011.

This image was taken at the Josephine County Fair on August 20, 2011.

Winner of FlickrDuel contest: +10 Wins: Color Explosion This image was taken at the Josephine County Fair on August 20, 2011.

This image was taken at the Josephine County Fair on August 20, 2011.

Winner of FlickrDuel contest: +10 Wins: Color: Orange This image was taken at the Josephine County Fair on August 20, 2011.

Winner of FlickrDuel contest: +10 Color: Color Explosion This image was taken at the Josephine County Fair on August 20, 2011.

This is what happens when you take a long-exposure shot of people walking! This image was taken at the Josephine County Fair on August 20, 2011.

I've had enough time to process the rest of my pictures from our night shoot last evening! There are 5 images here, I hope you like them! :) (I posted 2 yesterday) There were factories with billowing steam on both sides of this road. This side of the road also had a large pond that was full of Canadian Geese in it! Do you see the odd circle at the lower left? That's a cluster of geese that were swimming around in a circle! We believe they were trying to stay warm on this freezing-cold night! Thanks to all of you who have left comments and fav'ed my images! I appreciate them all! If you leave a comment, I try very hard to return the favor on the same day. I consider it both a compliment that you've taken the time to tell me what you think about my image(s) and an invitation for me to come see your photography as well! By the way, for those of you who may not know, there is a very fun, free Flickr competition site which you might like to take part in. It's called FlickrDuel and features dozens of ongoing competitions, or duels every day. You can enter your pictures into many different categories and vote on contests too. It's another way to enjoy your photography! This image was taken on Wednesday, November 10, 2100.

A big thanks to my husband for noticing this crane as we were walking back to the car. We promptly turned around and took some more pictures!! Woot!! This image was taken on Wednesday, November 10, 2100.

This is a long-exposure close-up of the geese in the pond in front of the factory. There were many of them swimming around separately, but this bunch was very active, swimming around in a circle, huddled together. We think they were probably trying to keep warm on this cold night. This image was taken on Wednesday, November 10, 2100.

Best viewed large against black! This image was taken on Wednesday, November 10, 2100.

While Steve and I were taking long-exposure shots of the factories with billowing steam stacks, I noticed how lovely the city lights were, so I turned my camera to take this shot. In the foreground are train tracks with a train on it. As we were taking pictures, this train was actively moving back and forth, picking up and dropping off cargo containers! :D This image was taken on Wednesday, November 10, 2100.