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Watch: The shutter stays open for 30 seconds: headlights stretch into continuous red and white trails while the buildings and streetlights don't budge. Moving things become lines; still things stay sharp.A line-art demo that only illustrates the technique, not finished footage.

Image · Texture

Long Exposure长曝光

The shutter stays open a long time: headlights become light trails, water becomes silk, crowds become ghosts, while still things stay sharp.

Category: Texture
Group: Advanced
Medium: Image
Library: 135 / 166

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Prompt templates are written from how generation models usually behave and have not yet been verified one by one with real generations. “Common pitfalls” are judgment from experience, not official limits.

When to use it

City nights, waterfalls and the sea, star trails, showing the flow of time.

Prompt template

long exposure photograph, city interchange at night, car lights streaked into continuous red and white light trails, buildings sharp, smooth sky, like a 30-second exposure on a tripod.

Sample prompt · generate an image directly

The technique comes first, followed by the subject, scene, details and aspect ratio. Paste it straight into an image model and swap in your own subject.

Long-exposure photograph of a city interchange on a rainy night, headlights stretched into continuous red and white light trails that swirl and cross, the wet road reflecting the trails, the surrounding towers crisp and sharp, the sky smooth, like a 30-second exposure on a tripod. 16:9, no people.

Common pitfalls

The buildings blur too, like a shaky hand.
The light trails are broken, like dashed lines.

Parameter tips

Spell out what moves (light trails, water) and what doesn't (buildings, rocks).