Here is a tricky question for you. Which one is better? Long exposure or "normal", "short" exposure?
Well, putting the question like that is most probably wrong :) Setting the shutter speed is a means to achieve certain goal with telling the story with the photograph.
If you rely on your phone for photography, with a huge certainty I can tell that your phone decides for yourself what shutter speed to apply given the conditions. 99% of the photos, you don't have any control.
All modern cameras have Auto mode(s) as well. Of course, using a camera in Auto will most certainly give much better results compared to using a phone on Auto mode.
With the same certainty I can tell no Auto mode could achieve a picture like that above. Why is that? First of all, for proper long exposure, a corresponding tripod is a must.
Smartphones try to work around that by taking multiple "snaps" and aligning them all together. Well, that is similar to lens "zoom" vs. digital "zoom". If quality is important for your photos you won't use digital zoom. Viewed at 100% it's all about pixels and calculations. And a true long-exposure picture will never be exactly the same as stitched series of several images with less quality and detail. AI can "compile" something that get closer to reality but there will still me differences. Probably until we manage to put quantum computers in our pockets.
You probably know by now how much I love Black & White or sometimes referred as Monochromatic photography. I have always believed that while Color Photography shows the external part of our world, Black and White Photography shows the soul, the inner hidden side of everything. Please consider the first photo of this post as my entry today to the established #monomad daily contest by the monochromes account and community and supported by the qurator account, thank you everyone for your hard and continuous efforts to build and grow this great community!
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