Magically removed visitors....

[shadomanda]

More fun with slow shutterspeeds: how to remove people from a scene? Use a very slow shutterspeed. The photo below was taken in one of the rooms at the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, an always crowded tourist site.



Exposure: 15 secs.

It's usually hard to take photos of rooms like this, and not have other sightseers block everything -- except if you're a professional, maybe, and can take photos after hours. The rest of us have to resort to magic tricks....

You do end up with some ghosting, depending on how long an exposure you use and how fast the people move, but I don't mind that at all for pictures like this. It adds a bit of life to what would otherwise be a very lifeless room.

Comments

[lian]

I'm really enjoying your exposure experiments! This one is epsecially gorgeous, the serenity of the room combined with the ghostly business of the tourists.

[shadomanda]

Thanks. It certainly wasn't the prettiest room in the building, but it did provide what I needed for my experiment: a safe ledge to put the camera on, since I don't have a (full-sized) tripod, and you don't want to take a 15 second exposure out of hand ;-)