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- [Adrian] If you watched last week's video,
you'll know that I've been waiting for rain
for about three weeks.
And I've come out this morning
to the beautiful Mornington Peninsula
to actually take on a quick challenge
using my 10-stop ND filter,
which I saw a fellow photographer and YouTuber,
Jeremy Payne, use last week.
So I'll leave a link in the description
to his channel as well, so go check it out,
a great Australian photographer.
But I'm down here at the beach,
and I've just set up, and it started to bucket down.
So, we'll just wait it out,
and then pop on the 10 stopper and see how we go.
So, I don't really often use my ND filters.
Not really sure why,
even for waterfall photography,
I pretty much stopped using my three-stop filter.
But I do have quite a collection.
So, three-stop, six-stop, 10-stop.
I've even got a nighttime filter,
which I think I've probably used once.
But I often use the circular polarizer filter,
so I'll leave a link in the description as well
of a video I did a little while back about that
particular filter, and how useful it is.
And I'll be using it again today.
But I am going to dust off the 10-stopper,
pop it on the front of the camera when the rain stops,
and we're gonna do a super long exposure
of just some beautiful rocks here
and get a really milky, minimalist look,
which is sort of a style that I really do like,
and I think I've probably painted myself
as a, certainly a woodland photographer,
and I really do enjoy that as well,
but it's just photography, at the end of the day,
and I just enjoy being outdoors.
So, let's give this a go and see how we travel.
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- All right, rain's stopped.
Let's get to business.
So I'm using the NiSi 10-stop filter,
and the circular polarizer.
So I'm already set up because
I was ready to rock and roll before the rain hit.
So let's jump into it.
So I've set up a really simple composition here,
so I'll probably do a square crop.
But I've got this rock here, and these rocks here,
and so that's the square, essentially, around there.
So, just want to get some milky texture in the water,
and we'll start at 10, we might want to try
the six-stopper depending on how much time we have left.
But let's get on the business of taking the photos.
So I've dialed in my settings.
So, when using a 10-stop filter,
you need to take your base exposure
prior to putting the filter on.
You can do it through the (indistinct) if you like.
So we were at F8 ISO 100, and 1/5 of a second.
Putting the 10-stopper on brings me up to
nearly three and a half minutes, or thereabouts.
So I'm using the NiSi app to work out the time,
so I'll share that on the screen now,
in terms of how long,
and then having to use Sony's Imaging Edge app
to put the camera into Bold Mode.
Easy manual settings as well
so that I get the right exposure and the right time.
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- I think it's fair to say I'm a bit rusty,
because I've ended up with basically
a beautiful picture of some lovely rocks.
I'll show the image to you now, at any rate,
but we clearly need a much shorter shutter speed
than three and a half minutes
for the amount of water that is not
moving through my scene,
which I probably really should have known.
But, all part of the fun, eh?
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- So, after much fluffing around here,
I realized my mistake, so, well not my mistake,
but an opportunity to learn.
So, using shutter speed 30 second, F10 ISO 50,
just focusing on these rocks here.
And as luck would have it, the sunlight,
the only place it's hitting is actually on those rocks,
and actually making them light up golden.
So, I may do black and white, I may do color.
As I said, looking for a minimalist
black and white look today.
All right, so I'll pop the photographs up
now to have a look at.
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If you enjoy this type of content,
feel free to hit the like button.
If you'd like to see more videos, like this.
I did a video a little while ago
down at Wilson's Prom National Park
with some minimalist shots in the sand dunes,
but also did some seascape photography as well,
so be sure to check that video out.
I'll leave a link in the description below.
Other than that, I'll see you in the next video.
Bye for now.