Why Long Exposure Photography is so Appealing

Federico Alegría
5 min readDec 27, 2018

Long exposures enable us to see otherwise impossible-to-see worlds with our own eyes. Thanks to long exposures, we can capture movement in a fixed image. Our eyes are capable of recording moments as stills in our brain, but since we cannot see movement as a fixed image, long-exposure photography triggers our imagination, and that’s perhaps the main reason why such images are so appealing to us.

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