ULTIMATE LONG EXPOSURE PHOTOGRAPHY TUTORIAL – UPDATE 2020

Enlightenment I – Eiffel Tower Trocadero © Julia Anna Gospodarou 2017 – 24mm Canon Tilt-shift Lens, 135 sec. f/13 ISO 100 13-stop ND Filter

In this article, I will present you an extensive long exposure photography tutorial in the form of a step-by-step ultimate guide to creating award-winning artistic long exposure architecture photography, long exposure landscape photography and motion blur photography. I will be telling you all you need to know about this technique so you can start creating great long exposure photographs right from the start. In addition, I will provide links to all the equipment I am talking about, and, when possible, as in the case of Formatt-Hitech neutral density filters, also discount codes for it. To find out what the code is, read on. 

I started writing this article as a long exposure crash course where I wanted to share the essential, but, as it happened with many of my articles lately, it evolved into an extensive tutorial, so you will get even more than it was planned in the beginning. I can guarantee you that this tutorial will be an excellent tool for the beginning long exposure photographer, but the advanced long exposure photographer will find some flavor here too.  I have won many awards for my long exposure work and I hope this tutorial will help you win just as many.

I will be updating this tutorial periodically, to keep it up to everything new that is happening in long exposure and to add info and advice from my experience or from the experience of others that can help you get better at this technique all the time. If you want to get the updates you can subscribe to my website and you’ll get them as soon as I publish them.

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BLACK AND WHITE FINE ART PROCESSING WITH PHOTOGRAPHY DRAWING™ IN 15 STEPS

Urban Saga V – Aqua Serenity @ Julia Anna Gospodarou

Photography Drawing™ (PhtD) is the method I created to process black and white photography, so I can give my images a three-dimensional look and create the illusion of reality.  This method has its base in the principles of drawing and of working with light, which explains its name. I am making here a practical overview of this method for black and white fine art processing where you can learn how to apply it in 15 steps.

You can see how I apply Photography Drawing on my latest image in the Urban Saga series, Aqua Serenity, that I feature in this article.

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COMPLETE GUIDE TO BLACK AND WHITE FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

The aim of this guide to black and white fine art photography is to give you the tools to create compelling award-winning black and white photography

This guide to black and white fine art photography is a compilation of the most important principles of black and white photography, or the most important guidelines for creating monochrome photography, that I recently created for my photography students and I now gathered into a complete guide to share it with you.

These principles are easy to understand and they will take your black and white fine art photography to a new level, either you work with black and white architecture, black and white landscapes, black and white portraits or still life. They belong to the general principles for creating good black and white photographs and do not depend on the subject matter you work with. They will give your black and white photography the extra element that will make it unforgettable for the viewer.

I will be updating this guide to black and white fine art photography as I discover more and better ways of creating black and white fine art photography, so if you will consult it in the future you may find even more guidelines or ways to produce good black and white photography. We are all constantly learning, so do I, and this makes us better artists and Continue reading →