Long Exposure – Rocks in a Milky Harbor

Tuesday means another Long Exposure image. This one comes from last Wednesday morning on an ill-fated attempt to shoot sea smoke. Despite the 10 F temps, the harbor was eerily clear when I arrived at dawn to photograph this scene. Rather than giving up, I decided to wait til sunrise and see what the clouds and light might offer. As it turns out, the image came out great and I ended up sharing it last week. Before the sun rose, however, there was just enough light to play with some long exposures. This was still the blue hour and I [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:06:03-05:00January 29th, 2013|Categories: Long Exposure|Tags: black and white, fine art, long exposure, Marblehead Harbor, Marblehead Neck|0 Comments

Long Exposure – The Tree and the Harbor

This image is a year old and has been hanging in my office for just about that long but I just realized that I have never shared it here. In early January 2012 (the same day as my color image of this scene from the end of Doak's Lane), I made this image that was intended as a square crop. The color photo from sunset remains one of my favorites but this black and white is a close second. I love the feel of black and white for these long exposure images (180 seconds in this case). The processing was [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:06:05-05:00January 22nd, 2013|Categories: Long Exposure|Tags: black and white, Little Harbor, long exposure, tree|0 Comments

Long Exposure – The Lighthouse at Sunset

On December 23rd, I headed out to Chandler Hovey Park to photography the lighthouse draped in its holiday best. I had just finished shooting the sunset at Devereux Beach both as fiery and smokey tendrils and had found a nice angle from which to shoot the lighthouse and old oil house. As I walked back to the car, I couldn't help but grab one more shot of the lighthouse at sunset. As the light was fading, this ended up as a 30-second exposure (thus qualifying it for Long Exposure Tuesday). If you look closely at the sky, you'll see a [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:06:05-05:00January 15th, 2013|Categories: Long Exposure|Tags: light, lighthouse, long exposure, stars|0 Comments

Long Exposure – Smoking Tendrils on Devereux Beach

Tuesday means it's time for a Long Exposure image and this time we turn to Devereux beach. I shared an image in color and of much shorter duration taken during the sunset on December 23rd. I had noted these great tendrils that formed as the surf pushed through at certain points. The previous image showed the reflections of sunset [see it by clicking here]. This image was created as a 30 second exposure. The longer duration turned the ocean into mist and I processed this to accentuate the water below and clouds above. I'm curious which you like more - [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:06:05-05:00January 8th, 2013|Categories: Long Exposure|Tags: beach, black and white, Devereux Beach, fine art, long exposure, ocean, sunset|0 Comments

Long Exposure – Christmas Comes to Chandler Hovey Park

Merry Christmas everyone! And could you ask for a more festive scene than Marblehead Lighthouse lit up with lights? I was out shooting at sunset on Sunday night and, when the lights faded, decided to head out to Chandler Hovey Park to photography the lighthouse lit up for the season. The park was empty on this cold night and I decided to use the same compositions as a recently shared photo with snow on the ground [link]. As the light was fading and since Christmas would fall on 'long exposure Tuesday', I decided to shoot this image over 30 [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:06:06-05:00December 25th, 2012|Categories: Long Exposure|Tags: Chandler Hovey park, lighthouse, long exposure|0 Comments

Long Exposure – Marblehead Harbor in Black and White

Much of my black and white long exposure work has been influenced by some incredibly talented photographers whom I have met through Google+. Of them, Joel Tjintjelaar has been a particularly strong influence. His work is simply incredible and I highly recommend a visit to his online gallery: http://www.bwvision.com/ This image was taken at dawn in mid-November shortly after capturing this view of Fort Sewall and the harbor [link]. I turned to face the causeway and captured this view of Marblehead harbor (now empty for the Winter) in a 15 second exposure. I had initially processed it in color but the [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:06:06-05:00December 18th, 2012|Categories: Long Exposure|Tags: black and white, fine art, long exposure, Marblehead Harbor, pier|0 Comments

Long Exposure – Abbot Hall Under the Clouds

This Long Exposure Tuesday features an image of Abbot Hall taken in late March of this year. I had set out on a windy day with great clouds in the sky to try to capture some images of buildings in town. I had good luck with the direction of the clouds as they sailed over Our Lady Star of the Sea (LINK) and the Jeremiah Lee Mansion (LINK) but found them going the 'wrong' way over Abbot. I only had this angle to shoot given the direction of the sun and was getting discouraged until I spied this one cloud [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:06:07-05:00December 11th, 2012|Categories: Long Exposure|Tags: Abbot Hall, black and white, clouds, long exposure|0 Comments

Long Exposure – Jeremiah Lee Mansion

A long exposure image on this Tuesday morning finds the Jeremiah Lee Mansion from an incredibly windy day in late March. This is a 25 second exposure and the long exposure with the incredible wind made for some great effects in the clouds racing overhead. There were few other people or cars on the street making this a somewhat eerie scene.

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:06:07-05:00December 4th, 2012|Categories: Long Exposure|Tags: black and white, Jeremiah Lee Mansion, long exposure, Washington Street|0 Comments

Long Exposure – The Rocks at Preston Beach

Another Tuesday and another long exposure image. This one was taken back in late May as the sun was setting. I had been playing with various compositions and then tried this one at the end. I allowed the exposure to go a bit longer than usual and ended up with almost no line between the water and sky at the horizon. You can just barely make out the hint of it at the corners which makes for a pretty interesting image. The strong textures on the rocks contrast nicely against the smoothness of the water in this 147 second exposure.

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:06:07-05:00November 27th, 2012|Categories: Long Exposure|Tags: beach, black and white, clouds, long exposure, ocean, Preston Beach, rocks|1 Comment

Pylons in the Misty Water

A new location on this Long Exposure Tuesday - the beach at the end of Corn Point Road. I had found this group of old pylons last Winter but, at the time, the tide was too low for the image that I hoped to capture. When I revisited the location at high tide a few months later, I was disappointed to see that, yet again, the water failed to reach the level of the close pylons. So it was with fingers crossed that I drove out again during an astronomical high tide to see if luck might favor the persistent... [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:06:07-05:00November 20th, 2012|Categories: Long Exposure|Tags: beach, long exposure, ocean, pylons, rocks|0 Comments