{"id":4236,"date":"2013-03-31T16:55:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T20:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2013-03-31T16:55:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T20:55:42","slug":"where-the-water-flows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2013\/03\/31\/where-the-water-flows\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Water Flows"},"content":{"rendered":"

I make no secret of the fact that I love photos of flowing water<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>And I also make no secret of the fact that I’m a big fan of using slow shutter speeds to create that “silky water” effect.<\/p>\n

Just recently I got myself a better tripod (and a nice ballhead to go with it), and ever since then I’ve been playing around with this technique a bit more.<\/p>\n

\"benro<\/p>\n

I also just recently picked up an ND filter (“neutral density” – basically sunglasses for your lens) and decided to try it out.<\/p>\n

ND filters are typically used to darkens a scene evenly, allowing for a slower shutter speed – which lets you blur out any movement… such as flowing water.<\/p>\n

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Previously, I’d been using my circular polarizing filter as a sort of poor-man’s ND filter. I could still use slow shutter speeds, but I was still somewhat limited by the available light – if it was too bright, I wouldn’t be able to use as slow of a shutter speed as I would have liked. The above photo, for example, was taken in the shade under a bridge in order to allow me the slow shutter speed I wanted.<\/p>\n

So when the weather warmed up a bit this past weekend and I found myself at a local park with some streams and rocky cascades, I just had to give it a try.<\/p>\n

\"rocky<\/a><\/p>\n

For a first try, I’m pretty pleased with how these came out. The thing with using slower shutter speeds is that… well, you are using slower shutter speeds – which means you really need to hold the camera steady. In other words, you almost always need to use a tripod (and, ideally, a remote cable release).<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I didn’t have either<\/em> of those things with me the day I took these shots – these shots are entirely hand-held.<\/p>\n

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Luckily the exposures I was using weren’t too terribly long, so I was able to get away with hand-holding – but I did have to get a bit creative with how I steadied the camera! The shot above, for example, was taken with the camera resting on the side of my shoe as I sat cross-legged on a rock!<\/p>\n

\"little<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m not sure why I’m so fond of this particular type of photographic effect, but I do know that it’s something I’ve been trying to do pretty much ever since I first picked up a digital camera.<\/p>\n

Long exposures in general are just kind of fun – to me they imply motion where none exists in a way that I just find really compelling.<\/p>\n

In the end of course this is just my taste – I like these kinds of photos, and more importantly I enjoy taking<\/strong> these kinds of photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I make no secret of the fact that I love photos of flowing water.\u00a0And I also make no secret of the fact that I’m a big fan of using slow shutter speeds to create that “silky water” effect. Just recently I got myself a better tripod (and a nice ballhead to go with it), and… Continue reading Where the Water Flows<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[204],"tags":[326,92,318,327],"class_list":["post-4236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-pictures","tag-long-exposure","tag-photography","tag-photowalk","tag-rivers","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-16k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1056,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/03\/03\/focus-focus\/","url_meta":{"origin":4236,"position":0},"title":"Focus… Focus!","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been fiddling around with my camera again lately, and my feature-of-fiddling has been aperture, as it relates to the focus of the camera. 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