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Mastering Long Exposure Photography using DJI Osmo Action 4 with Sony ZV E10: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Welcome to our comprehensive guide on long exposure photography! If you've ever wanted to capture mesmerizing light trails, serene seascapes, or dreamy night skies, this video is your gateway to creating stunning long exposure images.

This video will also serve as a tutorial/guide for shooting long exposure/slow shutter timelapse /car light painting using DJI Osmo Action 4 but works with older action 1/2/3 and go pro hero 12 as well.

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Equipment Used:
Camera: DJI Osmo Action 4 with Sony ZV E10
Lens: Sony 11mm
Tripod: Peak Design, Manfrotto
Filters: K&F VND Filter

Location: Mumbai Highway

Camera Settings:
Shutter Speed: 6s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 100
White Balance: Nightlight
Shooting Mode: Manual

Post-Processing Software:
We'll demonstrate our editing techniques using Filmora Wondershare/Adobe Lightroom to bring out the best in your long exposure shots.

Photographs with long exposure times are perfect for capturing motion blur and light trails. Composing a long exposure shot on an SLR or DSLR camera is a straightforward process. All it takes is a little know-how and practice.

What Is Long Exposure Photography?
Long exposure photography is a photographic technique that uses a slow shutter speed to flood a camera's image sensor with light. Most photography styles use a rapid shutter speed, but long exposure images require the shutter to remain open for one second or longer. You can achieve this in one of a few ways: by holding down the shutter button, by using a remote shutter release, or by adjusting the camera settings of a DSLR or smartphone camera to automatically keep the shutter open for a long time.


Mastering long exposure photography requires both technical skill and an understanding of lighting and composition.

1. Use a tripod. Long exposure photography renders you vulnerable to camera shake, which typically distorts images in undesired ways

2. Use bulb mode for long exposures. Most cameras offer a manual mode that lets you set exposure times for as long as 30 seconds. To go beyond this, use your camera's bulb mode. A bulb mode allows your camera shutter to remain open as long as you'd like. Top DSLRs from companies like Nikon, Canon, Fujifilm, and Sony all feature a bulb mode.
3. Look for images with motion. Motion is an essential element for long exposure photography; without motion, there is nothing in the image to distinguish the passage of time. The time requirement for capturing long exposure shots varies from 15 seconds to 15 minutes to many hours (for longer exposures), depending on the motion you want to capture.
4. Choose kinetic backgrounds for static subjects. Long exposure photography works by pairing motionless subjects with moving backgrounds and vice versa.

5. Learn the 500 rule. The 500 rule allows you to calculate the minimum amount of time you need to capture motion blur in a long exposure photograph. Divide 500 by the focal length of your lens.

6. If you use long exposure times, you risk flooding your image sensor with too much light. You can counter this in three ways. One is by using neutral density filters (aka “ND filters” or “stop filters”).


In landscape photography, long exposures can capture the motion of rivers and seascapes, blurring and softening any part of the image where there’s motion. Long exposure photography is also popular in night photography. Long exposures produce star trails in images of the night sky. In nighttime cityscapes, long exposure photographs turn moving cars into linear trails of headlights and brake lights.

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