{
 "slug": "long-exposure",
 "name": "Long exposure",
 "category": "motion",
 "group": "Speed",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "Moving things smear into trails while the still things stay sharp.",
 "use_when": "Night city stills, light trails, waterfalls, busy crowds around a still person.",
 "phrase": "a long exposure from a tripod, car lights stretched into red and white lines, the moving crowd blurred, she stands sharp in the middle",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Say what moves (blurred) and what holds still (sharp); without that the whole frame blurs.",
   "evidence": "film-craft",
   "source": "General film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film examples of this look (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills of this look (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "time-lapse",
  "what-moves-what-stays",
  "night"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters (its long-exposure preset)"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": {
  "slug": "time-lapse",
  "name": "Time-lapse",
  "category": "motion",
  "label": "Shown with: Time-lapse",
  "site": "aicameramovements",
  "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
  "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/s5-time-lapse-hq.mp4",
  "media": {
   "video": "/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq.mp4",
   "card": "/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq-card.mp4",
   "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq.jpg",
   "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq-card.jpg",
   "card_poster_400": "/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq-card-400.jpg",
   "width": 1280,
   "height": 720,
   "duration": 15
  }
 },
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/motion/long-exposure",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/motion/long-exposure.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. A long exposure from a tripod, car lights stretched into red and white lines, the moving crowd blurred, the subject stands sharp in the middle.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. A long exposure from a tripod, car lights stretched into red and white lines, the moving crowd blurred, the subject stands sharp in the middle.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nPeople and framing: a long exposure from a tripod, car lights stretched into red and white lines, the moving crowd blurred, the subject stands sharp in the middle\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. A long exposure from a tripod, car lights stretched into red and white lines, the moving crowd blurred, the subject stands sharp in the middle.",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): a long exposure from a tripod, car lights stretched into red and white lines, the moving crowd blurred, the subject stands sharp in the middle",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: a long exposure from a tripod, car lights stretched into red and white lines, the moving crowd blurred, the subject stands sharp in the middle",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. A long exposure from a tripod, car lights stretched into red and white lines, the moving crowd blurred, the subject stands sharp in the middle. The scene is [your setting].",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. A long exposure from a tripod, car lights stretched into red and white lines, the moving crowd blurred, the subject stands sharp in the middle. Framing and subject stay as in the start image."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}