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Was in Blackpool this weekend, and was taking a few shots of the roller coasters :)

I thought i'd set the shutter speed to about 1second to get some nice blur of the coasters zooming past, but it lets too much light into the lens.

I adjusted the aperture to the highest number to try and contemplate for this, but still they came out extremely bright :bang:

Any advice please? :)
 
smudge_don said:
Was in Blackpool this weekend, and was taking a few shots of the roller coasters :)

I thought i'd set the shutter speed to about 1second to get some nice blur of the coasters zooming past, but it lets too much light into the lens.

I adjusted the aperture to the highest number to try and contemplate for this, but still they came out extremely bright :bang:

Any advice please? :)
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ND filters will help loads.....low ISO would help a little too although you haven't said what you used so that might not have been the problem :shrug:

I always carry ND filters with me, can be very useful things sometimes! :thumbs:
 
Slimbert said:
ND filters will help loads.....low ISO would help a little too although you haven't said what you used so that might not have been the problem :shrug:

I always carry ND filters with me, can be very useful things sometimes! :thumbs:
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Ah cheers Damien :)

I hopefully have some of them waiting at work for me tomorow :thumbs:

I hoped that i would be able to edit it afterwards, but it doesn't look so great :(

Do those filters work for when you have a shot into the sun also?
 
smudge_don said:
Ah cheers Damien :)

I hopefully have some of them waiting at work for me tomorow :thumbs:

I hoped that i would be able to edit it afterwards, but it doesn't look so great :(

Do those filters work for when you have a shot into the sun also?
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Never done it so I can't say for sure.....I think if you stack enough filters you'd be able to do it, but I think you'd need 10 stop filters though!

I'm sure someone else on here will know better than me! ;)
 
you need to limit the effective iso of the camera
use the lowest and / or add some light cutting filters...which dont colour
neutral density are the ones and come in various down lighting multiples
good for fuzzy water as well
you can also use a straight forward speed at the smallest aperture and pan
 
1 sec is way too much. Your whole picture will be blurred and the roller coaster carriages will be unrecogniseable, as will be much of the picture. You need - ballpark figures here - somewhere around 1/30s to give some carriage blur and the rest of the picture sharp (unless you're drunk). Try slower - say 1/20s and see how sharp the main picture is. If the carriages are going fast then maybe 1/60 will do - or maybe not. If you're really good at holding the camera steady or can support it, then you could stretch to slower speeds, say 1/15. It all depends on the effect you're looking for. You won't need any filters.
 
using flash to set the shutter speed would allow some sharpness with blur in the ambient light area..
i have done this with flowers waving in the wind
 
mrcrow said:
using flash to set the shutter speed would allow some sharpness with blur in the ambient light area..
i have done this with flowers waving in the wind
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you'd need to overpower the sunlight yesterday with the flash, and have it powerful enough to illuminate a rollercoaster though which does seem a bit tricky. It works on a smaller scale though as you say

Hugh
 
i think the panning tutorial would be handy in this case.

I predominantly shoot rally cars, 1/30 @ around 30mph gives massive motion blur.

1/200 @ around 60mph gives a decent amount of blur, so start at 1/200 and work down. 1sec exposure wouldn't get anything sharp if panning, if you get any moving subject sharp @ 1/20th your doing extremely well.

an example:


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1/50th @ around 20mph


Hope this helps

Regards
Charlie
 
Cheers Charlie,

Although most of my shots were still with the actual cars on the coaster being blurred
 
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