Georg R. Baumann
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Georg R. Baumann
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Distant Island
Sandrine Bascouert
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WOW to "distant island"
This looks like a Fata morgana in the distance...
This is a very "quiet" photo,
Just a small breeze (let's pretend it's not Ireland for a moment),
All all theses shades of blue, brilliant.
This looks like a Fata morgana in the distance...
This is a very "quiet" photo,
Just a small breeze (let's pretend it's not Ireland for a moment),
All all theses shades of blue, brilliant.
Georg R. Baumann
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Yeah, the fatamorgana thing was on my mind as well.
Georg R. Baumann
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For those who might be interested in the approach, in all these shots shown, I worked with a 1000x ND Filter, in case you never used such a Filter, it reduces the light that hits the lens by factor 1000, which is a helluva lot, plus an additional Circ. Pol.
It was a pleasant experience, the pictures were taken on midday to be able to 'somewhat' use this filter combination, which is a challenge to say the least. The main challenge here is to see a bloody thing in the viewfinder, and having said that the Sony Alpha 900 has has probably the very best viewfinder in the entire DSLR market. Naturally, due to the extreme reduction of Light, I took a cloth over my head and waited a few seconds before the eye gets adapted from blazing midday light to this level of darkness, this helps.
I am quite fond of this technique, it is also a little hit and miss, as the blur is somewhat unpredictable, but there is one thing that can be done if you are patient enough. I observe the wave patterns, the cycles, and try to time the shots, which were in the 10-30 sec region, to catch the 'nicest' (biggest) cycle to sit somewhat in the middle of the shooting time. This allows for a picture like the below to not only have a wave pattern being blurred into a pleasant 'fog', but still shows the wave itself to a degree.
- Am I making sense? - LOL
Another aspect I found important is impeccable quality of Filters used, and as always, impeccable technique, using mirror lockup and add time the longer the lens used, in of the middle picture for example, set to 250mm and a 10 sec exposure, the mirror lockup was round about 8 seconds before I pressed the shutter.
Long tele shots like these are only successful on a rather wind still day on the beach in my opinion. But this is not out of my experience, I never would even try this when the wind would not allow the lens to stay as motionless as possible. Having said that, I do not know how it might work out when there are moderate winds, and one would, contrary to what is normally suggested, enable the image stabilizer. I simply do not know whether this would work on long exposure. Something to try out....
.... enough blue for now - grins - ....
It was a pleasant experience, the pictures were taken on midday to be able to 'somewhat' use this filter combination, which is a challenge to say the least. The main challenge here is to see a bloody thing in the viewfinder, and having said that the Sony Alpha 900 has has probably the very best viewfinder in the entire DSLR market. Naturally, due to the extreme reduction of Light, I took a cloth over my head and waited a few seconds before the eye gets adapted from blazing midday light to this level of darkness, this helps.
I am quite fond of this technique, it is also a little hit and miss, as the blur is somewhat unpredictable, but there is one thing that can be done if you are patient enough. I observe the wave patterns, the cycles, and try to time the shots, which were in the 10-30 sec region, to catch the 'nicest' (biggest) cycle to sit somewhat in the middle of the shooting time. This allows for a picture like the below to not only have a wave pattern being blurred into a pleasant 'fog', but still shows the wave itself to a degree.
- Am I making sense? - LOL
Another aspect I found important is impeccable quality of Filters used, and as always, impeccable technique, using mirror lockup and add time the longer the lens used, in of the middle picture for example, set to 250mm and a 10 sec exposure, the mirror lockup was round about 8 seconds before I pressed the shutter.
Long tele shots like these are only successful on a rather wind still day on the beach in my opinion. But this is not out of my experience, I never would even try this when the wind would not allow the lens to stay as motionless as possible. Having said that, I do not know how it might work out when there are moderate winds, and one would, contrary to what is normally suggested, enable the image stabilizer. I simply do not know whether this would work on long exposure. Something to try out....
.... enough blue for now - grins - ....
Georg R. Baumann
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What Filter?
Someone asked me what Filter I used.
This ND here - For some reasons, it is often not available- :
https://www.schneideroptics.com/ecommerce/CatalogItemDetail.aspx?CID=679&IID=3263
and this - very expensive - slimline Circ. Pol. here on top of the ND:
https://www.schneideroptics.com/ecommerce/CatalogItemDetail.aspx?CID=989&IID=5624
Someone asked me what Filter I used.
This ND here - For some reasons, it is often not available- :
https://www.schneideroptics.com/ecommerce/CatalogItemDetail.aspx?CID=679&IID=3263
and this - very expensive - slimline Circ. Pol. here on top of the ND:
https://www.schneideroptics.com/ecommerce/CatalogItemDetail.aspx?CID=989&IID=5624
Sandrine Bascouert
Member
They might be nice at that price
But if the quality of the filters match the overall quality of any Schneider lens, well then, worth that...
I'm impressed by the slimness of the polarizing filter...
But if the quality of the filters match the overall quality of any Schneider lens, well then, worth that...
I'm impressed by the slimness of the polarizing filter...
Georg R. Baumann
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They might be nice at that price
But if the quality of the filters match the overall quality of any Schneider lens, well then, worth that...
I'm impressed by the slimness of the polarizing filter...
I can only speak of experience, I had cheaper filters before, less than half the prize, I gave them away as a gift.... says it all.
As for the slim Kaesmann, a word of warning, it is a bitch from Hell. LOL I mean, once you have it on the ND and need to get it off again.... be prepared for some cursing, rubber gloves will help, but still it can be very tricky.
John Angulat
pro member
Beautiful image Georg.
Another one of yours I could see hanging on my wall.
Nicely done.
Another one of yours I could see hanging on my wall.
Nicely done.
Georg R. Baumann
Inactive
Thanks John, of course all this is nothing new, then again, what is new in photography? This monster Filter was new to me, and I look forward to explore further possibilities, doing some of the 'known suspects' as well, sea of mercury and stuff. However, I know already that I prefer the way it works out above, still being able to see movement.
Another thing to do is shooting after the 'blue hour', here one can not keep the ND on the lens when starting to shoot as not enough light will be available, so apparently the trick is to measure without the ND, and then calculate your exposure, say you get a good exposure at ISO 1600, 30 s., F/2.8 and you want to shoot at ISO 100 F/8, that would bring you to 3840 sec, or 64 minutes exposure time accordingly.
Pheeew.... patience.... patience!