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Boats all tied up B&W

Long Exposure Boats all tied up

Long Exposure Boats all tied up
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NIKON D300S

settings

Aperture f/22.0 ISO 200 Shutter 70/1

upload_date

Aug, 2012

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Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken at Donkmeer in province East-Flander Belgium

Time

It was the later part of the afternoon

Lighting

Was overcast with batches of sunlight commingle through

Equipment

Nikon D300s was on a manfronto Tripod with a 18 - 200 mm lens at f22 & 70 second exposure. I used LEE 100mm Filter System - Foundation Kit with a 10 stop filter. Remote trigger

Inspiration

I just got my LEE Big Stopper and wanted to practice using it. The effect of using this type of filter is allowing anything that is moving in your image to become blurred or ghost like, for example clouds, waterfalls, rivers, and the sea. I recently completed GTD training - not related to photography and was looking for images that represent the differance between order and chaos. If haven't guessed it this is the order version with the boats all tied up and the nice leading line in orating the viewer to explore the photo in more detail.

Editing

I used lightroom 4, I new this photo would look best in B&W. Used a preset filter B&W contrast high, adjustment brush to add detail on the pear and bots and finally graduated filter blurring the water behind and above the boats.

In my camera bag

I always have way more than needed. Nikon D300s Battery grip LEE 100mm Filter System - Foundation Kit with a graduated filters, 10 stop filter & Circular Polariser Remote trigger Lenses Nikon 18-200mm 3.5 - 5.6 Nikon 17-55mm 2.8 Nikon 50mm 1.8 not a Dx lens Tokina 11 - 16mm 2.8 Flashgun Nikon SB-900 Cleaning kit including sensor cleaner

Feedback

If you are not familiar with this type of filter, it’s basically a very strong neutral density (ND) filter which reduces the amount of light hitting the camera’s sensor by about 1000 times. ND filters are common but typically only 3-stops in strength (reducing the amount of light by 8 times) so a 10-stop one is quite extreme. The first thing I did was find a suitable composition as I would for any shot. I wanted to achieve the misty water look I knew of a lake just up the road from my house. I found composition that would work and setup the camera on a tripod that is vital with these types of shots due to the long exposures. I ended up being lucky as this was truly my first few shots exploring with the ND filter And took some test shots to work out the exposure. The correct process username this type of filter is to take some test shots without the ND filter and then multiply the shutter speed by 1000. e.g. if using aperture priority, ISO 100, f/11, the shutter speed is 1/50, then the required shutter speed with filter would be 20 seconds (.02 * 1000). You will notice using using a 10-stop ND filter is difficult because it’s hard to see anything with the ND filter on, that is why I like the LEE filter kit. It easy to remove compose then switch the lens of camera to manual focus so that the camera will not try and focus add the filter back. Dial in the shutter speed or bulb mode. Hope it helps

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