W/NW: Your Favourite Slow Shutter Shot

[dcsang]

I adore movement in photos.
I've always loved Baroque paintings.

Let's see what you've got for motion - slow shutter speeds (1/30 and slower) - I don't care if it's on a tripod or not but let's see movement!!! :D

Here's one of mine: "Rush Hour"
http://www.chang-sang.com/photo/100506/crop0020.jpg
Leica IIIc
35mm Summaron
f4
1/4 second handheld
Silvertone 100 dev'd in Rodinal

I've got others but I want to see everyone elses. Let's see some life in action.

Dave

[rover]

My current favorite

http://static.flickr.com/105/262891572_f2009c856a.jpg?v=0

[Chaser]

at least recently. Minolta CLE with flash

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/brenna-flash.jpg

[Dale Cook]

I really like movement in photos as well. Adds another dimension to a straight shot...

http://dalecook.smugmug.com/photos/900714-M.jpg

http://dalecook.smugmug.com/photos/900706-M.jpg

[chenick]

Here are two of my recent attempts
Fuji Acros, ND4 filter, F16 and 1/15 or 1/8 shutter speed

-Nick
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/332/U332I1157132436.SEQ.0.jpg
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/332/U332I1155499802.SEQ.0.jpg

[venchka]

Around 1 second.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/56593-2/FH000010.jpg

[ChrisN]

OK, not a RF shot, but my best result so far along these lines. I've got a roll yet to develop along these lines; it'll be interesting to see what works.

Form my gallery over on DSLRX.

http://dslrexchange.com/photopostdslrx/data/500/IMGP4328-B_W-small.jpg

[jano]

Is there a difference between slow shutter and long exposure? :) I've done stuff up to a couple hours :eek: but they are very boring compared to these!

[monochromejrnl]

vc 21/4 - trix@1600 souped in Diafine... 1/8 sec

[pesphoto]

http://www.paulshelaskyphotography.com/Photos/PhotoOfWeek/Train.jpg

[sheepdog]

Stopped by the concert with this angry young woman after work one night. Hadn't planned on shooting, so my Kiev had a roll of Pan-F in it, already exposed to ISO50 half way through. Nothing to do other than to lean up against a wall and give 1/5sec a go (bit on the long side judging from the negs, but it was fun trying)..

The local club photographer gave me the weirdest look ever when he saw what I was shooting, hehe :)

[Dougg]

Here's 1/6th at f/4, hand held with care. Any longer exposures generally involve SLRs on tripods... :o

[sevres_babylone]

Metro Man - Mexico City R-D1, CV35 2.5 PII
http://www.pbase.com/zuiko40/image/57937484.jpg

[Spyderman]

My favorite?

definitely this one, because I wouldn't expect it to come out this good at 1/8 f/2.
Bessa R + Jupiter 8, expo: 1/8 @ f/2
http://static.flickr.com/116/260102780_5410ee7061.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ondrej_p/260102780/

Maybe not a lot of movement, but I like it... :angel:

[rogue_designer]

This one. 15 seconds with Provia 100, on the Horseman VHR (hey - it's an RF :D )

(yeesh - I need to rescan this one)

[iml]

Quite pleased with this one from today, shot at 1/15.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=46337&cat=6398

Ian

[MadMan2k]

Shot with a DSLR, I don't have a rangefinder yet.
f/8, 1/8th, ISO 400, 45mm equiv.
http://jonbuder.com/images/IMG_1140bw.jpg

[Dougg]

I like that one, Ondrej! Interesting dual faces...

[EcoLeica]

Heres one of my favs

[Sparrow]

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/5791/medium/pic10014_copy.jpg

[Abbazz]

Shot in Hoi an, Viet-Nam, with my Fujica G690, 100mm lens, 1/8s:

http://artbig.com/rff/000002.jpg

Cheers,

Abbazz

[Nuno]

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/796/U796I1156723758.SEQ.0.jpg
Contax G1 + Biogon 28
Konica VX400 Monochrome

[pesphoto]

Walking out of the subway in Boston in '04 to get to the parade for the Red Sox. Seems so long ago....
http://www.paulshelaskyphotography.com/Photos/PhotoOfWeek/Sox1b.jpg

[chris91387]

didn't quite come out the way i had hoped but this was about 1/15th of a carnival ride with flashing lights. only had a couple shots left and this was the best of the bunch.

- chris

[Goodyear]

Haven't got many.

Copenhagen, March 2005, Bessa R, CV 35/2.5, camera away from my eye:
http://static.flickr.com/7/9958107_05e680f2cd.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marramgrass/9958107/)

[Michael I.]

my girl tying lacing up her martens

[George Bonanno]

http://www.2x2l.com/noelle_03_10.jpg

[SalmanA]

I don't have very many RF shots to share ATM, but here is my favourite slow shutter speed shot taken with a P&S digicam:

5s @ f/8.0

http://www.pbase.com/ssahmed/image/35070435/original.jpg

Cruising (http://www.pbase.com/ssahmed/image/35070435/original)

[Dougg]

In the car wash with my RF645...

[ClaremontPhoto]

Bicycle Race

[Gabriel M.A.]

I'll play. It is not with an RF, but I guess it'll have to do:

http://static.flickr.com/60/227879696_11578c04c1_o.jpg

[Dougg]

A bit of movement here; could become a favorite. Very recent shot just last Friday with new Zeiss Ikon and 35 Biogon ZM, during the community's monthly "First Friday Art Walk."

[ClaremontPhoto]

Saturday Morning at Lidl

[ClaremontPhoto]

http://my-expressions.com/up_media/3659/pblog/4436/1160889694.jpg

[Nuno]

Kids visiting a Monastery.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/796/U796I1160600822.SEQ.0.jpg

Contax G1 + Biogon 28
Kodak Max 800

[teo]

34408
Since panning is the reason that justifies slow shutter with telelens:
(sorry for being made with SLR, I've still to upload a decent shot with rangefinder)

and: yes, there is someone's head on the left, I didn't like to crop too tight...:o

[Sparrow]

34408
Since panning is the reason that justifies slow shutter with telelens:
(sorry for being made with SLR, I've still to upload a decent shot with rangefinder)

and: yes, there is someone's head on the left, I didn't like to crop too tight...:o
SLR? Why are the wheels round given it's a focal-plane shutter

[Gid]

First at 1/12, the second at 1/39 (not slow, but too slow for the bus:) )

[FPjohn]

Elmar f3.5 50mm, Yellow, 2xND, Pan F.

[Toby]

I can't remember if it's slow shutter or just general incompetence

[teo]

SLR? Why are the wheels round given it's a focal-plane shutter
eee, uhmmm. Sorry for my ignorance, but I don't understand why they souldn't be...:confused:

[Sparrow]

eee, uhmmm. Sorry for my ignorance, but I don't understand why they souldn't be...:confused:

Focal plane shutters distort at slow speeds, circles go a bit oval or egg shaped that one looked slow enough the see the effect but doesn’t show it, nice shot by the way

[teo]

Thanks :)
It was first panning of my life ;) too bad for the harsh OOF, it was a f22...

[Goodyear]

Focal plane shutters distort at slow speeds, circles go a bit oval or egg shaped that one looked slow enough the see the effect but doesn’t show it, nice shot by the way
If it's an SLR with a horizontally-travelling shutter?

[Dougg]

If it's an SLR with a horizontally-travelling shutter?No, I think the effect we're thinking of comes from rather slow-moving large vertical-travel shutters such as Graflexes etc. As the FP slit moves downward, the (inverted image of) the bottom of a horizontally moving object is exposed first, and last for the top. And in the lapse of time for the shutter to travel, the object has moved relative to the film, and appears slanted toward the direction of its movement.

I think a slow-moving horizontal shutter would slightly compress (horizontally) an object moving opposite to the shutter movement and stretch one moving the same direction.

[teo]

Yes, I used a Minolta X-700, with horizontally-traveling shutter.
(I'm afraid we're hijacking the thread?)

[Gabriel M.A.]

This was actually shot with a slow shutter time (1/4 or 1/8 sec), wide open:

http://static.flickr.com/48/137255429_a72d93a185_o.jpg
Leica M6 + CV 35mm Ultron f/1.7 / Kodak Ektachrome 100

So there are some exceptions to the "blur" rule for "slow" shutter speeds.

[Dougg]

You're right, teo, we're probably hijacking the thread; just one more observation... That focal plane shutter curtains move the same velocity for each shutter speed. They don't move more slowly for slow speeds; they just remain open longer. :) For fast speeds, faster than the X-sync speed, the second curtain starts to close before the first curtain has completed its travel, and this accentuates as the speeds increase, until at high speeds there's just a narrow slit between the first and second curtains as they traverse the distance, still taking the full X-sync time to complete the journey and expose the whole frame.

[amateriat]

A trio of examples:

- First image: Amtrak Metroliner (one of the real ones), Elizabeth, N.J., 1976. Tech info: Canon EF, FD 24mm f/2.8, 4x ND filter, Kodak EPR, approx. 1/15 sec. (amazed I remember this much...and how about all these trains in this thread!?)

- Second image: Chelsea, NYC, 1996. Tech info: Konica Hexar autofocus, Kodak TXP, somewhere between 1/30 and 1/60 sec.

- Third image: wedding, Brooklyn, NY, November 2005. Tech info: Konica Hexar RF, M-Hex 28mm f/2.8, Ilford XP2, slow-sync flash.


- Barrett

[Sparrow]

No, I think the effect we're thinking of comes from rather slow-moving large vertical-travel shutters such as Graflexes etc. As the FP slit moves downward, the (inverted image of) the bottom of a horizontally moving object is exposed first, and last for the top. And in the lapse of time for the shutter to travel, the object has moved relative to the film, and appears slanted toward the direction of its movement.

I think a slow-moving horizontal shutter would slightly compress (horizontally) an object moving opposite to the shutter movement and stretch one moving the same direction.
I’ve seen it from both an M3 and OM1, I assumed it was common but I can’t actually find any examples, perhaps my imagination

[DMG]

one from the other week

[kestas]

my 5 cents.
first one made with oly xa (~2-4 sec), second one with pentax slr and 50/1.4 wide open (~1/4-1/8 sec)

[Cooki]

The bar shot is with the XA at f16 and about 10 seconds , and the pool shot is 1/40 at f3.5 with the 35RC. I use the pool table as a busness card image.

[Simon Larbalestier]

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/6064/medium/20Kumpong_Pluk_Commune.jpg

Nikon S3 2000 + 105/2.5 Nikkor TX 400

[Jim Watts]

Enviromental Protest, Reykjavik, Iceland
Ricoh GRD 0.8 secs @ f2.4 plus flash

[nico]

BessaR+Nok50+Ilford HP5 shot@1/30 or 1/15 (can't remember...)

[rolleistef]

not shot many slow speed photographs, but here's one I like very much. In Geneva last august, around 11pm, HP5, Rolleiflex (sorry no RF, don't ban me!), f:3.5, 1/8, handheld.
Processed with rodinal.

[jamesj]

here is one from me...

http://static.flickr.com/119/275997716_0dcb1b0f5d.jpg

[pvdhaar]

Here's my personal favorite where photography and quantum physics meet.. Broadly speaking, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that you can either capture motion or position, but not both at the same time.. We now know Heisenberg had it completely wrong; I'm located exactly in my car, and the speedo shows exactly 25kmh.. Take that, Werner!

Oh, and image details: Bessa-T+CV25/4, 1second exposure on Fuji Xtra-400..

[thorirv]

the obligatory tunnel photo

http://static.flickr.com/108/256632429_6302d8a265.jpg?v=0

[thorirv]

followed by the obligatory close up of feet walking photo

http://static.flickr.com/85/256633025_e198519e1b.jpg?v=0

[bobomoon]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/351467637_096f6fa4f6_o.jpg

[jja]

Here's mine, though I don't recall the shutter speed:

[nksyoon]

Epson R-D1, Elmarit 21/2.8
1/9 sec, f/2.8, ISO1600

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/144/317350815_a04bb075fd.jpg

Epson R-D1, Elmarit 21/2.8
2.3 sec, f/2.8, ISO1600

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/135/317350949_ae0d6864f2.jpg

[markinlondon]

Only about 1/30th but slow enough

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/86/236747291_0046b28d20.jpg

[mattmills]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/355004056_0965b78040.jpg?v=0
something like 2 seconds, wide open. dude was waving a flashlight in front of his face at a rock show.

[zuikologist]

DSLR shot (sorry) - Park Avenue, NYC

[sf]

canon SD700is...sorry. Not really...I love this little thing.

[DMG]

not a favourite but one from a roll this week

[ray_g]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/139/337947684_e68564b28f_o.jpg

[Jonathan_100]

Nashville 2002

[bsdunek]

SLR? Why are the wheels round given it's a focal-plane shutter
In this case he panned with the bike, so the wheels aren't distorted. If you're thinking of the old photos of race cars, the cameras were on tripods, so the car was moving, and the wheels moved as the shutter curtain moved vetically across the film plane.
Some really great images here. I used to have to use slow shutter speeds, back when even Tri-X was only ASA200 (1950's) I'm inspired to try some of these! :cool:

[erikhaugsby]

http://tinypic.com/346p1eo.jpg

it's a little low in contrast, but I just recently scanned it...

usual culprits: M2, 50DR, FP-4, 1sec @ f/2



(that's my dad, brother, sister from left)

[sf]

Here's mine, though I don't recall the shutter speed:

brilliant shot. Favorite.

[sf]

Simon Nikon S3 2000 + 105/2.5 Nikkor TX 400

all your shots have such a strong tactile dimension - they have 3 or more dimensions. Love it.

[dostacos]

shot last saturday Metro Red Line

[jkelly]

This picture is no big deal, but I was amazed I was able to handhold a shot at 1/5 sec with my Leica IIIa. Summitar, Tri-x, D76

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/153/359513365_089233e25f.jpg