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

Under the Pier at the Eastern Yacht Club

It's Tuesday so back to Long Exposures from around town. This one was taken in January 2012 as I explored the shores along the neck and scampered over rocks and under piers. The structure above this one struck me and I decided to center it in the frame to emphasize the symmetry. A long exposure helped calm the already fairly still waters below. Hope you enjoy this one.

By Eyal Oren|2013-06-16T14:32:19-04:00November 13th, 2012|Categories: Long Exposure|Tags: black and white, Eastern Yacht Club, long exposure, pier, yacht club|0 Comments

Swirling Water at Castle Rock

I haven't shot a landscape image in a few weeks but that has 'forced' me to return to my archive of images and rescue some of these from the seemingly never ending waiting line before they see the light of day. In this case, the image from Castle Rock at sunset dates back to June 11, 2008! I had this image waiting to post but decided to rework it last night in preparation with some new techniques I had picked up over the past 4 years. I was able to bring a bit more color into the sky and rock [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:06:08-05:00November 12th, 2012|Categories: Sunset|Tags: Castle Rock, long exposure, ocean, rocks, waves|0 Comments

Curves in the Water Lead to Brown’s Island

It's Tuesday and that can only mean another Long Exposure image to share with you today (well, that and a pretty important election...). Today's image comes from the day before Superstorm Sandy arrived. I had scouted out this small discharge pipe a while ago but realized I needed an astronomical high tide to realize the image I had visualized. For good or bad, Sandy delivered on that wish. As the tide peaked on October 28th, I made my way out to this area and found the water covering the length of the concrete covered pipe. More incredible than the water [...]

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:06:08-05:00November 6th, 2012|Categories: Long Exposure|Tags: black and white, Brown's island, island, Little Harbor, long exposure|1 Comment

Long Exposure – the Drain on Preston Beach

This Long Exposure Tuesday view comes from early September when a storm was churning off the coast and I headed out in search of big waves. Those failed to appear but I hit Preston at high tide and decided to shoot some long exposure images instead. This one at 25 seconds is relatively short but was enough to turn the incoming tide to a soft white cloud. My favorite parts of the image are the rocks at the end of this drainage pipe and the ones to the left where the mist seems to encircle them.

By Eyal Oren|2016-11-06T12:06:09-05:00October 16th, 2012|Categories: Long Exposure|Tags: beach, black and white, long exposure, ocean, Preston Beach, rocks|0 Comments