hi folks welcome back to the channel. In today's video we're going to be looking at doing some long
exposure daytime photography using the Olympus tg-6. Now the tg-6 has a fantastic live composite
mode which is great for night photography, for shooting star trails and capturing light
trails from traffic things like that, brilliant. During the day however, it isn't possible without
overexposing the image. The answer is to employ an ND filter and that's what we're going to do today.
Thankfully unlike a lot of compact cameras the tg-6 does come with a way of attaching filters
to it. Olympus or OM Systems will charge you a small fortune for an official adapter, but
being your typical tight Northerner I've elected to buy a JJC set which costs a more appealing £13.
That included an adapter to mount filters, a lens cap, which is another handy accessory on the tg-6,
a UV filter, which to be honest is not really much use to anybody unless you want some extra
scratch protection, and a lens hood. Fitting the adapter is very straightforward, it's just a case
of removing the standard lens ring around the tg-6's lens and then fitting the adapter using
the bayonet fitting on the camera itself. Now we're ready to start attaching our own filters.
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Well it's a warm one that's for sure but as you can see we've reached the place I want to take a
photograph from. This is the other side of Cala Murada, we're looking back towards the beach and
we've got the headland over on the left hand side of the composition and below us a lovely pool,
which looks if it was cut out for to take the rocks away and I think that's going to make
some nice foreground interest if there's enough room on the tg-6 (field of view) to be able to
make that shot happen. So without further ado we'll get the ND filter out we'll explain what
that's going to do, and yeah, then we'll get to taking some photographs. We're going to talk about
how filters can benefit your photography. Now the essential number one filter I think you should buy
for any camera is a polariser, and then possibly something like this which is a 10 stop ND filter,
that's a neutral density filter. Basically that works like sunglasses for your camera,
it's going to block out a lot of light and it's going to mean that the camera has to make a
longer exposure to get enough light through this filter and onto your sensor. So that is going to
slow everything down which means in during the daylight like today, it's probably midday now,
the height of the sun, we're going to be able to slow that exposure down and get some nice smooth
water and it's going to make for an interesting looking image. That's what we're going to be
using this little chap for. Again, this one is made by Pig Iron, I'm not sponsored by them,
I do use their filters a lot because they are cheap and they are quite good quality
glass for the money. There are much more expensive filters out there if you want to
spend up to say £60-80 or a couple of hundred pounds you can get a set of fantastic good
quality ND filters from somebody like Lee. However, these will do the job just fine.
So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take a test shot using just the
standard polarizing filter I've got on the front of the camera. I'm taking the image
just in aperture priority, we're going to whack the aperture up to about f8/f9 in order to make
sure that everything front to back is in focus. We'll take that shot and see what it looks like,
see if we're happy with that composition, and then we're going to move the camera into scene
mode and use the live composite setting on the camera. We're going to attach the ND filter and
then we're going to see how that shot comes out. When we take it, it should give us something about
the 20 to 30 second exposure. Hopefully that gives us some nice movement in the waves at the
foreground of the image, and smooth out that sea behind it. So as you can see, we've moved
the camera into scene mode, we've selected live composite, and we're ready to take that shot. The
huge advantage with Olympus system cameras, OM systems and Olympus like the tg-6 is the
live composite mode, it is absolutely fantastic because unlike other cameras where you don't see
the exposure until after you've taken the shot, with the tg-6 and other OM System, you can watch
it build on the screen and then decide, by simply put pressing the shutter again, to stop the image
when you're really happy with it. So we're going to take a few more shots, different time intervals
and see what they look like. If they come out really good I'll put them on screen now.
Well guys, I hope you've enjoyed that little video, I hope you like the images and have
found this interesting. If you're a tg-6 owner and you haven't thought about doing
any long exposure during the daytime using an ND filter for live composite, why not give it a go.
It's fairly easy and fairly cost effective to do, and add something different to your photography,
especially when you're somewhere like this, on holiday, and you want to create some magical
moments to show everybody back home. So thank you very much for watching,
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