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Long exposure
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Uploaded: 05/18/10 10:59 AM GMT
Long exposure
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This is one of the lighthouses at the entry of the river Tyne. I recently read a thread on a forum about using the tinted glass from a welders mask as a filter for long exposure photography, so just had to give it a go. For anyone interested I took this at about 6.pm. on a gloomy day, settings F11 66seconds exposure iso100 & custom white balance. C & c always welcomed..
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Wow. This shot is SOOO close to hitting my favorites list. This is a great 1st attempt on using the welding lens. I'm gonna bug my husband and see if he has an old helmet I can take the glass from. :-)
The streaks in the clouds as the sun tries to force it's way through, the b&w background with that pretty red... Although I might have brightened the red just a little more to make it stand out more. I am seeing a little bit of fuzzing on the lower sections of the legs where they should be bright and crisp. So much softness in the shot needs a little sharpness to contrast. A very very very good 1st attempt. I look forward to new experiments from you!
The streaks in the clouds as the sun tries to force it's way through, the b&w background with that pretty red... Although I might have brightened the red just a little more to make it stand out more. I am seeing a little bit of fuzzing on the lower sections of the legs where they should be bright and crisp. So much softness in the shot needs a little sharpness to contrast. A very very very good 1st attempt. I look forward to new experiments from you!
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For in and out, above, about, below,
'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show,
Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun,
Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.
From Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
With nothing to bench mark this against Mick, it looks good to me, I really like the smooth sky, my only critique would be to try and straighten the horizon but I can see that would be difficult as you may loose the composition of the light house.
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Thanks for taking the time to comment.
All comments good and bad welcomed.
Well this one seems to have sparked a bit of interest :))
The idea of using the welding glass as a 14 stop filter is to create motion blur of the clouds over a long exposure. This works very well but the welding glass gives a deep green colour cast to the pictures. To counteract this you need to take a benchmark pic at say iso 100 F8 60 seconds. Then go into your camera menu & set custom white balance, it will show you recent pictures to choose for the custom white balance, use the benchmark pic to set it with. Now when you take your next pics the colour balance should be more normal.
I could have just bought a lee "big stopper" 10 stop ND filter for around £90 & got much better quicker results. Thats no fun though, the welding glass cost £2.50 from Ebay & I have stuck it to an old filter ring with blue tac to stop the light getting in the sides.
The image above was a little underexposed @ 66 seconds to be honest & took a while in Raw & PS to get to where it is. I shall try some more next time the sky is right for it.
Thanks for the interest guys :))
The idea of using the welding glass as a 14 stop filter is to create motion blur of the clouds over a long exposure. This works very well but the welding glass gives a deep green colour cast to the pictures. To counteract this you need to take a benchmark pic at say iso 100 F8 60 seconds. Then go into your camera menu & set custom white balance, it will show you recent pictures to choose for the custom white balance, use the benchmark pic to set it with. Now when you take your next pics the colour balance should be more normal.
I could have just bought a lee "big stopper" 10 stop ND filter for around £90 & got much better quicker results. Thats no fun though, the welding glass cost £2.50 from Ebay & I have stuck it to an old filter ring with blue tac to stop the light getting in the sides.
The image above was a little underexposed @ 66 seconds to be honest & took a while in Raw & PS to get to where it is. I shall try some more next time the sky is right for it.
Thanks for the interest guys :))
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I like and I think I 'get' the composition. The selective desaturation, I'm guessing, was to aid in isolating the high tower from it's bleak surroundings. IMO, perhaps a mask could've been placed over it, desaturating everything else..but not 100%, and then using a brush tool to desat in and around the tower, leaving all of the colors of it's structure intact. Lastly, maybe reduce the saturation of the tower ever so slightly, making it's isolation just a bit more subtle.
Ummm (sheepish grin) hope these comments and critique fall inside the 'welcome' line.
*apologies to Frank Oz...