David Crewe

Long exposures have become an increasingly popular form of photography over the last few years. With the right tools and a proper understanding of the techniques, you can create some incredibly surreal and dreamlike portrait and landscape images. These images can take a lot of time and preparation to capture, so the last thing you want to do is have something go wrong that you could have easily avoided. Here are some common mistakes made in long exposure photography and how to avoid them.

Ask any working photographer what the one thing that they cannot fix in post is, and the answer will almost always be the same: light. It’s easy to clean up skin, tweak color and contrast, and even swap skies or extend backgrounds. Still, bad light has historically meant a costly reshoot, hours of painstaking compositing, or the quiet disappointment of delivering something a client doesn’t like.

With modern, high-resolution camera systems, photographers are capturing tens or even hundreds of gigabytes of files per shoot, before even considering video. Your storage workflow is now almost as important as the camera and lenses you use to capture everything. This is why portable, interchangeable Solid State Drives (SSDs) like the TerraMaster D1 SSD Plus have become commonplace among photographers.