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Photographing water....How?
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A simple thing no doubt, but how do take a picture of flowing water, to get that ethereal look! I know i've got to drop the shutter speed and reduce the aperture, but is there any other tips you can give?
Posted at 2:55AM, 12 January 2006 PDT
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A few additional tips:
1. You'll need a tripod for slow shutter speeds.
2. If it's bright and sunny out, stopping down may not be adequate to slow the shutter speed enough. In that case you'll probably need to use a neutral density filter and/or circular polarizer, as well.
Posted 78 months ago.
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hodge said it. As he indicated, you get better results on cloudy, overcast days...
Posted 78 months ago.
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You may want to consider getting in the water itself as long as it is not dangerous and you bring along a towel and spare change of clothes. Yeah, just jump in that cold, cold water with the mossy (sharp!) rocks with your expensive camera!
Posted 78 months ago.
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I never got flippers as part of the d50 kit, but thanks anyway minority! ;)
Posted 78 months ago.
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What I'm in the process of purchasing is a kit of Neutral Density filters. They stop your lens down further than you can manually. They also filter out some of the overblown reflections from the sky, etc...
At least I hope this is what they do, because I'm about to lay my money down :-)
Posted 78 months ago.
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ND filters and a tripod are your best bet. When you stop down a shot to f/22 you can get waterblur, but you are hitting the diffraction limits of the lens and losing sharpness.
( Nikon D70 ) ƒ22, 1/33sec, iso 800, 24mm (32mm), 81A+polarizer, tripod
An ND filter allows you to experiment with waterblur on a sunny day:
3 exposures (3", 1.3", 1/4") (Nikon D70) ƒ16. iso 200, 12mm (18mm), vari-ND, tripod
You actually don’t need an amazing slow shutter speed to get a decent blur. The rule of thumb here a photo at 1/30 or 1/60 will be the same blur as your eye. So anything an order of magnitude faster will "stop" the shot and an order of magnitude slower (say on the order of a second) will blur it.
(Nikon D70, 12-24mm f/4G) ƒ18, iso360, .8sec, 14mm (21mm), tripod, sidekick, Vari-ND.
I use a Singh-Ray Vari-ND filter. It's not cheap. Since it is two stacked linear polarizers and a half wave plate, it’s not small and I get some vignetting on my 12-24mm @ 12mm. Also, if you dial it up too much, the whole photo gets some weird red shifting in a "+" pattern down the center.
(Nikon D70) ƒ8. iso 200, 30 sec, 12mm (18mm), vari-ND, tripod
I hope this helps.
Posted 78 months ago.
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Thanks all. Great help as usual.
Posted 78 months ago.
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Sharp f 5.6 1/160 tripod
flowing water f22 1/5 sec tripod
Originally posted 78 months ago.
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'arry edited this topic 78 months ago.
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Small revisions to the above article.
Posted 78 months ago.
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