Week 21: Well, I could post one of the live music shots that Scott and I got together, but I had a mission of a shot I wanted to get. Well, not so much this particular subject, but I got some new filters for doing landscape shots. A circular polarizer and some neutral density filters. One thing that you can do is take longer shot during the day with them. So in moving water it give you creamy looking water. We have some small falls/spillway in Round Rock so off I went on Monday to get this shot. I'm including 3 today, but only one is my "weekly" shot.
30 second exposure, f/11, ISO 100, the latter two being the constant in all three shots. This was with a polarizer to cut down on water reflections (also helps with leaves) and a 10 stop ND filter. Which means it blocks 10 stops of light. You can see movement in the close vegetation. The moving water is blurred though, the rest is fairly sharp. Yes, on a tripod.
This shot is polarizer only, 1/40 of a second. The polarizer is about 1-2 stops of light reduction, so still kind of slow, but the water is crisp and sharp.
The last is the other end of the spectrum. Polarizer, 10-stop ND plus a 6-stop ND. 122 second exposure and I still needed to bump it up in post processing. More motion blur of plants all over. Lost some reflection under the trees due to underexposure, but you get the idea of what happens with longer exposure.
Anyway, it was fun learning and I plan on doing more practice. I need to get a better handle on calculating expose before my cross country trip at the end of the month.