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Photo looks, lighting & styles · #11
Long exposure
Keep the shutter open long so moving lights become lines. The street turns to night; the moving car fades to almost nothing, a red tail-light line stretches out behind it and white and amber lines run along the opposite lane.
Lens & camera effectslong exposurelight trailsslow shutternight photographycar trailsmotion
Full motion specification
How the movement works
To show traffic flow, or silky water and clouds, in a single still.
- 01Scene 2: a street corner; buildings, trees and street lamps (x 114, 292, 494) behind a road at y 132–162; the person stands front left (feet at x 176, y 200, 124 px tall). colours go to night (sky #2C3B5E, one window in three #FFC75A)
- 02Car: x −60 → 600 every 5 s; body opacity 100% → 10%
- 03Tail-light line: from x −60 to the car: #FF5B4D 2.6 px at y 145 and #FF8A6E 1.4 px at y 149
- 04Opposite lane: full-width lines #FFE9B8 2.6 px at y 135, #FFC75A 1.6 px at y 138.5 and #FFE9B8 1.2 px at y 141.5 (they fade in with the effect)
- 05Top-right shutter speed 1/250 → 8″
- 06Timing: the effect comes in from 0.4 s to 1.4 s, holds until 4.0 s and is gone again by 4.8 s (one pass = 5 s, cubic ease-in-out (about cubic-bezier(0.65,0,0.35,1)))
Prompt
Night road as a long exposure, 8-second shutter: the cars disappear and only their headlights and tail lights remain as white and red trails.