here’s a special kind of chaos that comes alive in a city after dark. When Kevin and I went out for some street photography in Tilburg, I wasn’t planning on experimenting… but the road beside me was practically begging for it. Headlights glowing, engines humming, the rhythm of cars passing like pulses of light through the night — it felt like the perfect moment to attempt something notoriously tricky: handheld long-exposure car photography.
Armed with my Canon 5D Mark IV and the Sigma 24–70 Art, I opened the lens to f/2.8, dropped the shutter all the way to 1/2 second, and kept ISO at 500. In conditions like this, physics isn’t on your side. Every heartbeat, every breath, every tiny muscle tremor becomes part of the photo. And honestly? Most shots were complete misses — streaks, smears, abstract failures.
But that’s the beauty of experimentation: sometimes the chaos aligns.
In this frame, the passing car locked into motion just long enough to stay recognizable, while the world around it dissolved into soft trails. Technically improbable, creatively satisfying. Handheld long exposure is a conversation between control and surrender — you guide the moment, but the moment also guides you.
And in those rare situations where the two meet halfway, the result becomes something unexpectedly artistic.
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“Drawing Circles with Light”
Sometimes photography becomes a dialogue between light and motion.
After capturing the stillness of Spoorpark, I decided to try the opposite — movement. With my Canon 5D Mark IV and the Sigma 24–70 Art still set to ISO 3200 and a 6-second exposure, I aimed for the Westpoint Tower and began to draw circles with my camera.
In those few seconds, the static lights became fluid — ribbons of color swirling through the darkness. The sensor recorded every trace of that movement, translating intentional motion blur into something new: a painted rhythm of photons and time.
It’s fascinating how a simple circular gesture can turn structured architecture into abstract light art — proof that photography isn’t only about freezing moments, but also about exploring what happens when we let them flow.
Photography, after all, is just another way of studying light and life.
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Sometimes photography becomes a dialogue between light and motion.
After capturing the stillness of Spoorpark, I decided to try the opposite — movement. With my Canon 5D Mark IV and the Sigma 24–70 Art still set to ISO 3200 and a 6-second exposure, I aimed for the Westpoint Tower and began to draw circles with my camera.
In those few seconds, the static lights became fluid — ribbons of color swirling through the darkness. The sensor recorded every trace of that movement, translating intentional motion blur into something new: a painted rhythm of photons and time.
It’s fascinating how a simple circular gesture can turn structured architecture into abstract light art — proof that photography isn’t only about freezing moments, but also about exploring what happens when we let them flow.
Photography, after all, is just another way of studying light and life.
#LongExposure #LightPainting #IntentionalCameraMovement #ICM #UrbanLight #NightPhotography #CreativeExposure #Spoorpark #Tilburg #WestpointTower #CityLights #ExperimentalPhotography #PhotographyAsScience #Canon5DMarkIV #Sigma2470Art #UrbanExploration #PhysicsOfLight #LightInMotion #ByMaikelPhotography #MaikeldeBakkerPhotography
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