How to make a silky water – case of Costa Rica and Tel Aviv’s coasts(2)

And now back to the digital age and to Tel Aviv.

One Friday rainy night I grabbed my camera bag and went to Tel Aviv’s harbor.  If you are going by yourself don’t forget to take with you the following items:

1. IPOD – with your favorite music. It is going to be long exposure shots, and while the light has been registered on your sensor, listen to a good music.
2. Your gear –
   1. Camera – cleaned sensor and charged battery. Sound rhetoric? Believe me how many times I saw people that find out in the field that their camera is not charged.
   2. Lenses- I prefer to use ultra-wide lens but in some cases I used my ultra-tele lens.
   3. Cover for the rain – when you, like me, prefer to go out in stormy and rainy day (the clouds and the sky create more dramatic sky), take care for camera cover. Don’t save on this item. You will be sorry when you will download the photo into your computer and see stains of rain’s drop from the lens that was register on the image.
   4. Cable release – since it is a very long exposure every camera shake counts. Please note that you use Bulb, and you have to have release cable that fit this status.
   5. Flashlight – it is dark out there. It will help you set your camera right and in some case focusing your camera.

 In that picture, I manages to capture the woman that was standing on the boardwalk. It was only for 30 seconds, but still the waves was captured good.

 

What do you have to put attention to?

Metering - if you shoot in bulb you can’t measure from the camera. You have to search for the 18% grey and then measure with 30 seconds and see what aperture you will get. With these two numbers, you can manipulate the shutter and the aperture to 2 minutes and above, based on the silk mode of the water that you want to achieve. The formula is – longer exposure=silkier water, longer exposures=brighter sky.

Solid ground – since it is very long exposure the risk for camera shake is higher.  One night I went to biet yanai beach near Netanya Israel, and put the tripod on the sand. When I got home I found out that most of the pictures were blurred. The fact is that the beach’s sand is moving, especially when you are close to the water line. The solution I found is to bring with me big brick that I found in one of the building sites and put the tripod on it. This picture was one of the few that is sharp.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 6:24 pm. It is filed under Photography tutorials and tagged with Aperture, Bulb, Exposure, landscape photography, Long exposure photography, night photography, Shutter. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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