I got up early this morning for a sunrise from Bellerive. The water was choppy and I wasn’t happy with my efforts, so I delved into my bag for my ND filter. This beast is so dark you can’t see through it as it let’s only 1/1000th of the light pass through. There’s a few things to do before screwing the filter on – compose the picture and calculate the exposure time needed by multiplying the meter reading by 1000, so if the exposure time without the filter would have been 1/30 sec, then the exposure needed is about 30 seconds. It works every time for me.
This technique works well with water as it smooths out the waves and if you’re lucky you will get some movement in the clouds. And yes – in the trees (see the left of the photo). Oh well, nothing’s perfect!
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