Long exposure beach..

[JaackBrown]

I tried doing a long exposure shot of the sea, to get that blurred effect, I had my ISO on 100, and aperature 5.0... When I looked at the picture it was really bright.. How do i fix this

 

[Digitalize]

You need a Neutral Density Filter. Blocks the light entering the lens and allows longer exposures.

Although a wider aperture would have helped until you get an ND filter

 

[Jayst84]

You over exposed the shot. Fix it by exposing correctly - in this case, stop down to a higher aperture, and/or add filtres to reduce the light reaching the sensor.

You have to metre your long exposure shots just as you would any 'normal' exposure.

 

[JaackBrown]

You over exposed the shot. Fix it by exposing correctly - in this case, stop down to a higher aperture, and/or add filtres to reduce the light reaching the sensor.

You have to metre your long exposure shots just as you would any 'normal' exposure.

Thanks, what do you mean by meter? Im kinda new to photography, as you can probably tell...

 

[Jayst84]

Thanks, what do you mean by meter? Im kinda new to photography, as you can probably tell...

Metering is how you decide what exposure you need for any given photograph. So, the combination of shutter speed, aperture and sensitivity ISO.

You will see the meter moving around in the viewfinder when you point your lens at different scenes.

So, for a 'normal' photo, you may set something like a shutter speed of 1/250th of a second, an aperture of f/5.6 and an ISO of 100. Now, if you wanted to take a long exposure in the same circumstances, you would have to close down the aperture to let less light in, to compensate for the longer shutter speed.

Rather than go into detail here, check out the sticky thread here: http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=99841 it should give you a decent starting point to work out what happened.