jezterr

looks like i've got dirt in my lens/sensor. damnit.

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ciao998

That first picture is really cool, is that fog?

Dunno if your sensor is dirty, but my screen is!!

jezterr

no fog. see if you or anyone else can guess what it actually is.

hint: these were taken around 7pm, and it's actually lake washington.

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ciao998

rising tide?

SeattleVet

Long exposure in combination with moving water.

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Robusto

that and slightly obscuring the rocks below to give a real ethereal look to the water.

jezterr

seattlevet got it. it's just long exposures during the day. the misty look is due to the moving reflection of the sky on the water, and because the surface of the water is never flat and constantly changing, the effect is essentially a very blurry reflection with fuzzy edges. which looks misty.

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jezterr

you mean like post process obscuring? no, no, none of that. the post process was only for exposure adjustment and contrast...

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eric

how long was the exposure in the first?

jezterr

these are all 30 secs.

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Motorcycle Man

I love the effect in the first one.

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matty

how did you manage a 30 second exposure with day light and not have a completely blown out/ whited out picture? Dark filter?

ciao998

His lens might go down to a smaller aperture than most lenses you're used to?

I have taken 30 sec exposures with my 18-55 kit lens, inmy room, with the lights on :shrug:

jezterr

with the addition to the smaller aperture (lens only let me get down to f/22), i had a 3 stop nd filter with a polarizer on top (which adds an extra 2 stops, i think). it was pretty dark looking through those filters in the viewfinder.

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ciao998

I was wrong, the ones I took were 20sec, lol

They sucked

jezterr

pics please.

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ciao998

f25 20sec

boring pic, first time playing in manual, lol.

matty

So you had a total of 5 stops added on to the front of the lens? Pics came out great. What brand of filters do you stick with/recommend? I'm looking at purchasing a polarized and ND filters in the near future, and B&H's site has too many to choose from. Obviously by looking at the prices, I can pretty much assume what is the 'best,' But don't want to spend a couple hundred on a filter. Are Tiffen's good?

jezterr

i haven't yet developed a preference for which brand of filters to stick to, but i've heard good things about hoya and b+w. really, i think it's something that one has to take their priorities into consideration and how nitpicky you can get. the price differences usually are congruent with the color temperature of the filter (cool gray vs warm gray vs neutral) as well as antiglare and any other additional films applied to the glass.

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jezterr

look! wood!

the color of the wood turned out real nice.

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ciao998

From Paraguay even

SeattleVet

Tiffen's are OK. Hoya and B&W are very good, with the B&W having a slight edge. B&W can be pretty pricey, but when you are putting an extra 2 glass surfaces (front and back of a single filter) in front of the lens you want something that will not be introducing any softness or distortion.

If you're just looking for something to try out different effects and stuff, Cokin is actually a pretty decent system. The filters are polycarbonate and they slide into a holder that sits in front of the lens. They make a wide array of filters. The advantage to the Cokin system is that if you are using something like a graduated Neutral Density you can slide it up and down in the holder to give you the effect where you want it. I even have a Cokin circular polarizer that works very well.

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elDizzle_foShizzle

so ppl shooting waterfalls with that smooth look are prolly using ND filters?

jezterr

yep.

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eric

Unless the sun has gone down they surely are. In my last set of waterfall pics I used a 2-stop ND filter (4 times slower shutter speeds) and I'd have like to stack two of those together.