Neutral Density

wcavanagh

wcavanagh

Suspended / Banned
Messages
995
Edit My Images
No
Well people this is my first real post asking a question.

I am wanting to take some pictures of moving water, and have seen some good effects of blur using a ND filter and slow shutter.

Can anyone help me with some pointers to this before I head out with the kit :) I have 3 NF filters :)

Thanks all.
 
tripod, remote release, polarisor, three bin bags. (1 for your gear if it rains, and two for your legs if you need to go in the water) lol

underexpose slightly, as its easier to brighten an image than fix blow-outs.

Not sure if this works, but just had an idea.... take a reading from the frothy water, then one for the foliage or ground nearby, and lets say there was a 3 stop difference, put your 3 stop ND filter on, then when exposing for the grass or ground, you should have a propery exposed scene with flowing (milky) water without any blow-outs.

Just a thought, as I said, I don't know if that will work.

Look forward to your shots.

Kris
 
[:geek: mode on]

Liberalis said:
underexpose slightly, as its easier to brighten an image than fix blow-outs.
Kris
Click to expand...

This is a common misconception with digital photography (with me too until I found out a bit more)...
If you completely blow out/under an image then there is nothing/little you can do to compensate, but ....

If a digital image is underexposed then you actually have less chance of correcting it than one that is slightly over exposed.
It's to do with the way that the sensor digitizes the data.

There is a very good artical on this here clicky


Hope this helps...
[:geek: mode off]
 
Cheers people,
I will be taking a trip out tomorrow, to a place I have in mind, and see what I get :)

Fingers crossed :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top