February Challenge: Day 12 – 22 Lanes
By Brian Auer • February 14th, 2008
WEEK 3 = RED
Long exposure of traffic on Interstate 5 where it splits into the 5 and 805. Can you believe that there are 22 lanes at this point and it’s backed up during rush hour every day?
I’ve never done one of these long-exposure traffic shots before. It turns out that the white lights are much brighter than the red ones. Plus there wasn’t much traffic, so it probably could’ve turned out better. Here are a few others from that night as I was messing around with different amounts of focus and shutter speed:
To see the rest of my February Challenge photos, check the “Challenge” category here on the blog or visit my Flickr Set.
Brian Auer is a photography enthusiast from San Diego, California. He's also the guy behind the Epic Edits Weblog. As a hobbyist photographer since 2003, his passion has been to constantly improve his photography skill set, to share his own knowledge with others, and to become an integral part of the photographic community.
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Lovely pic Brian ! well composed and executed
22 lanes!
This may be asking the obvious, but did you shoot this on bulb mode, holding a black card over the lens when there was no traffic? Or did you just expose long at a small f stop?
yup, 22 lanes. Two big freeways merge right here, plus they just built a local bypass in each direction that added 4 extra lanes in each direction.
I shot it at 30 seconds and f/32. There was enough traffic that there wasn’t any dead spots, but it wasn’t real thick like I wanted.