Long Exposure

Recently I’ve been starting to look at doing some photos at night, which requires much longer exposures. As it is, I’ve got the necessary stuff – a decent tripod, and the PClix that I got a while ago to manage long exposures.

I’ve had the PClix (pronounced pee-clicks, apparently) for a year or so now and never really got round to using it properly. It’s a clever little device, entirely programmed by two numbered wheels, and one button – although that means there’s quite a learning curve to the thing, and it’s one that I’m only just starting on, to be honest.

The minorly annoying part is that because I didn’t really get round to using the Pclix until the last couple of weeks, I’ve missed out on taking some of the photos I was planning to take this year – but that’s no great hardship, the same type of photos will be there next year. In the meantime, though, I’m going to make some effort to get familiar with all the settings and gubbins that go into it – and to be honest, it’s probably better to be playing with evening and night-time long-exposure shots during autumn and winter than summer anyway, so it’s likely to all work out for the best anyway. Well, that’s the theory.

Whatever happens, it’ll be fun to see how things work out with the Pclix, and it might just chuck out some interesting images as well. Along with some right shite, obviously.