{"id":391,"date":"2011-09-06T15:06:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T05:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2011-09-11T13:09:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T03:09:11","slug":"more-fun-with-long-daylight-exposures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"More Fun with Long Daylight Exposures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the ND400 filter falls squarely into the “new toy” category I can’t leave it alone. So today I went across the river in search of more water to photograph. (I had a go at trees, flowers and leaves as well but on a day with almost no breeze that didn’t work so well.) <\/p>\n

First of all, two “instructive” photographs. This picture shows a reasonably ‘normal’ daylight exposure, no filter used. The waterfall is clearly made up of independent droplets.<\/p>\n

\"Waterfall<\/a>
Waterfall - 1\/80s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And now exactly the same shot, with the filter and a 60s exposure. The water becomes a silky sheet of white:<\/p>\n

\"Waterfall\"<\/a>
Waterfall - 60s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Interestingly, increasing the exposure further doesn’t help much beyond this point. Here is the same waterfall taken from the front, at 180s exposure:<\/p>\n

\"Waterfall<\/a>
Waterfall - 180s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since I was in the Botanical Gardens, I had a go at photographing both lakes. <\/p>\n

Due to the lack of wind the reflections are smoothed but still very clear — quite an achievement for a 3-min exposure.<\/p>\n

\"Lake<\/a>
Lake - 180s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here, the fountain is totally washed out, and the water like a smooth, opaque surface.<\/p>\n

\"Lake<\/a>
Lake with Water Feature - 90s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Trees remain rock-solid, only the leaves are slightly blurred. The water looks painted rather than photographed.<\/p>\n

\"Painted<\/a>
Painted Lake - 90s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, Story Bridge. Because I could. <\/p>\n

\"Story<\/a>
Story Bridge -- 60s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hmmmm…. I wonder how Moreton Bay would look using this technique? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the ND400 filter falls squarely into the “new toy” category I can’t leave it alone. So today I went across the river in search of more water to photograph. (I had a go at trees, flowers and leaves as well but on a day with almost no breeze that didn’t work so well.) First … Continue reading More Fun with Long Daylight Exposures<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}