Free field guide · 28 pages · PDF
Slow down.Shoot longer.
A field guide to long exposure photography: filters, planning, technique, and the mistakes that cost the most. The notes I wish I’d had when I started.
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What's inside
Six chapters, from the reason a long exposure works to the edit.
- 01The WhyWhat a long exposure actually does, and why the sea is never the same twice.
- 02The GearTripod, ND, GND, polariser. What to buy first and what to skip.
- 03PlanningReading a forecast like a photographer, not like a weather app.
- 04In the FieldFrom arriving at the location to the shutter, step by step.
- 05What Goes WrongThe failures that cost me the most, and how to read them on the back of the camera.
- 06The EditShort on purpose. The philosophy, and the three problems specific to long exposure.
Two pages leave the book
Print them. Fold them. Put them in the bag.
Field Filter Reference
Which filter, when, and the exposure conversion table for every density I carry.
Failure Diagnosis
What you are looking at on the screen, what caused it, and what to do about it.
“Most of a long exposure happens before you press the shutter.”
Vernazza, Cinque Terre
Ciao, I'm Francesco
I am a seascape photographer with a deep, visceral passion for long exposure. When I started, there was almost nothing to read: a few forums, a handful of scattered posts. I worked most of it out on my own, the slowest and most expensive way there is.
This guide is what I wish someone had handed me back then. If it saves you a fraction of the frustration I collected in those first years, it has done its job.
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The sea is waiting
Take one idea out of the guide, just one, and use it on your next outing.
Free · 28 pages · PDF