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Dec, 2017Views
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This is Scotney Castle in Kent England. Its a very popular subject for photography being particularly pretty. However I wanted to make something more that the usual 'snap' so I put on a 10 stop filter and went for a 5 minute exposure using my tripod mounted OMD E1M2. I like the streaking in the sky of the clouds and also the smoothing effect on the water.Time
2:30 in the afternoon an a sunny May day 2017Lighting
Bright sunny day with streaky cloudsEquipment
Olympus OMD E1M2 with 12-100 Pro Lens and 10 stop ND filterInspiration
I have taken this castle many times before as its only 15 minutes drive from my home, but I wanted to get something more from the image than I have done in the past.Editing
Yes this image was postprocessed in LR with curves, contrast and other relatively minor changesIn my camera bag
I have two systems Olympus OMD micro four thirds and Sony Alpha A7R3 with a range of lenses for both.Feedback
Using a 10 stop ND filter allows the shutter speed to be massively slowed down so exposures of many minutes in broad daylight are easily possible. This causes movement like the clouds to become streaky and also movement in water in particular will become averaged out to a smooth silky surface as I have achieved in this image
