Awesome shots bro!

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I think the camera was moved during this shot(?)

Btw I have no idea if my photo for the contest qualifies as motion

This post was edited by SeaBas on Oct 30 2010 08:25am

What a beautiful place. The third one there looks awesome. Regardless of how many seconds you exposed it, I still think it looks cool. I have yet to try a photo like this.

This post was edited by Chantal7 on Oct 30 2010 08:32am

The shots are a bit soft, then I saw your 75 sec exposure time. You will be able to achieve the water effect you're looking for (the water looks great btw) with a lot less shutter speed than that...more like 1/4 - 1 second. The surrounding details will obviously be a lot sharper as well.

that all depends on the speed of the flowing water

Doesn't have to to make any difference. Leafs will never be 100% sharp with a slow shutter speed. As long as you have a tripod you can make exposures of an hour that are still sharp as long as you have a more static subject of course.

True, but there are small waterfalls involved here which will be falling at enough speed.



Not totally true, because the wind and other things are going to move the tripod a bit also. Put your camera on live-view mode, zoom in 10x and you can see that movements that you can't see or feel still cause slight camera movement. The leaves won't be 100% sharp at 1 sec or 1/4 sec either, but they'll be a lot sharper than they are at 75 secs.

A good tripod doesn't move other than through the universe because it is on earth. Not notice-able at least.

This is the reason, though, why I don't use any trees in long exposures when I want them to be completely sharp.

You could get away with 1/4 sec on a day with minimal wind and wind up with a sharp shot, but you're right. HDR (which was mentioned earlier) could be a solution for this. A long exposure can also do weird things to colors.

Do you mean through using filters? They often give a red/purple/brown glow over your pictures.