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Position:Home>Visual Arts> Holding Shutter on Water to create Fog effect?Question: Holding Shutter on Water to create Fog effect!? So I am just starting to get into Photography, I have a Nikon D50 and am getting pretty good!. What i want to know is how to take a picture of water, whether it be the ocean, a river, or anything, and have it turn up looking like fog!.
I know i need to use a slow shutter speed to make it all blur together, but when i do that the pic is completely white!. Do i need to do it at dark!? i have seen pictures where it looks as if it is perfect daylight out!.!.!. please help!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 1!. Put your camera on a tripod 2!. try to point the camera away from the sun 3!. focus the camera 4!. Set our shutter speed 5!. MOST IMPORTANT - set your aperture!. The longer the shutter speed the smaller the aperture should be!. It is all about balance of how much light you let in!. If you have the same aperture and let in more light you will of course overexpose your image!. Think of it in balancing a weight on a see-saw - if you move something on one side you have to move it on the other side as well!. 6!. I would leave ISO on auto on your d50Www@QuestionHome@Com To do this during daylight you need to slow down the shutter speed as much as possible!. This is done by using a small aperture (f22), a low ISO (as low as your camera can go or the slowest film you can find), and a neutral denisty filter!. you want the shutter speed to be 1 second or more to get silky smooth water and waves as you sdesire!. these tricks should do the trick!. Good Luck, BillWww@QuestionHome@Com Put the camera on a tripod and choose S mode for Shutter priority!. Set the shutter speed at about 1/60 second to start!. Adjust to get the effect you want!. The camera will take care of the aperture!. You'd also benefit from gaining solid knowledge of exposure theory!. I recommend the excellent book Digital Photography for Dummies, available at Amazon!. VWww@QuestionHome@Com OK, so as you've seen exposure is all about a trade off between aperture and shutter speed, and in broad daylight even an aperture of 22 or higher can still keep your shutter speed reasonably high (especially when trying to achieve the effect you're talking about) for proper exposure, therefore meaning it'll just wash out if you slow it down to get the desired effect!. The solution is to use filters that have a high optical density at visible light!. These will simply "stop down" the light level further, giving the same effect as closing your aperture even further!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |