Today's the day we're gonna mess around with ND filters and trying to get
some blurred movements in the photos. I have a D750 with me with a variable ND
filter. This goes from 2 to 8 stops. It's just what I have on-hand. There's a
lot of options with ND filters. You can get ones that are, you know, super high
quality single.. number. So if it's a 20-stop or something those are a good
option. You can also get ones that attach to the camera. Nice large mount with
square rectangular filters. Those are also a very good option for landscape,
but I don't have those. I'm just gonna use this. See how it works. I do have one
on the Canon actually for video. It's very nice to adjust the exposure with
the ring on the front. It makes it very easy to get a decent exposure quickly
without adjusting shutter speeds with video. I do have a wired shutter
release to make it a little easier, and it's attached to the camera so I don't
easily lose it. A nice stream over here that we'll attempt to get some of those
blurred photos. An interesting thing, which I'll least attempt in this photo
is to blur the highlights. So those can be really harsh in the photo. But when
you have that longer shutter speed and you're blocking on a lot of light with
the ND filter it should hopefully kind of smooth out those really bright spots.
let's go over here and get ready...
With the 2 to 8 stop filter, it's really not enough to get those really
blurred images. However, I had my circular polarizer with me. So I put the two
together and we got it. So we have variable ND filter and the polarizer
together. Makes it dark enough for this to work. Well, this probably will vignette
quite a bit with this lens, but good enough for messing around. So the thing
though.. it's not gonna focus with all this glass in it. So I have to pre-focus
by taking it off, which is a big hassle.
It's working decently well, of course, I have to do a lot of extra stuff. In this
case if you were to want to do this. I would suggest buying the filters that
are rectangular. Buying the thing that attaches to the camera. That way you can
take it out put it back in quickly, so you can get auto-focus.
Make sure everything's spot-on with focus. Even though you're shooting at
small apertures, it's a good idea to make sure it's in some type of decent focus.
Of course you can adjust the ring to infinity or whatever, but sometimes you
want to focus closer to something. In that case I would suggest getting those
filters that are rectangular. So I'll do a few more of these and then I'll try
something else, but right here looks pretty good. Try to get something in that
little stream area with this set up.
Okay, so now I'm gonna try some light painting is very bright out but we'll
see if it works. I have a flashlight. Also a headlamp. I really don't know if they're
gonna be bright enough. We'll see. Pop this puppy on! Alright.
Does kind of work. However it's pretty windy and I just a large branch smash
to the ground... so it's a little... little much. First test was kind of decent, but I
should have to Sun to my back, of course. See how it goes in that case. Alright, so
the light painting thing is probably good for another time. Try to make a
video on that in the future. Basically it's just having a long exposure,
having a strong light source in the photo. That way you can draw things and
make shapes or whatever. Works really good when it's dark night time. I think I
will do one more thing. I'm going to look for some motion in some type of tall grass, or
something. And attempt to get a photo of that.
Found a good spot with some nice tall grass type stuff. We'll see how that
works.
So it's been working pretty well so far. My last one that I was using just the ND
filter with those long tall weed type things. I don't know what they're called.
But they're flowing in the wind and that works pretty well.
In this case I have a nice stream in the background.
nice fast-moving water should work pretty well. After that I think I'll call
it a day.
That's it to this video. I hope you enjoyed it. I think it turned out alright. I'll have to
see the photos, but besides that, it was pretty fun. And I hope you enjoyed it as
well. First one with the little streams. I had to stick the circular polarizer plus
the ND to get it dark enough. It was pretty bright at the time. But the second
one with the light painting, of course, it was really bright as well at that time. And
I'll try to do a video on that in the future. You know, go out in the night time.
We'll see how that goes. So with the prairie grass, tall prairie
grass, I do think some of those photos turned out nice. Have to see him on the
computer when you all see them in the video, of course. And then the other stream.
Very fast running water. It was darker in that area that was very easy with the..
just, just the variable ND filter. Anyways, hope you enjoyed this video.
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Thanks again!