Noosack Falls
Noosack Falls, Mt Baker Highway, Sep’11
reaching here early morning (before sun got over the thick forest cover) meant that I would get a long exposure readily. I still found the use of a 8 stop ND Filter to further increase the exposure time that gives the moving part of the water a dreamy effect (and not everybody likes it).
I liked how the top portion and the lower portion of water act like two vastly different worlds, in both their varied colors and dynamism.
Beautiful.
Thanks !
Wow, you know, I can’t swim :D .Or is it just a photo and I should relax? :D
haha…yeah I won’t recommend swimming either. there were no lifeguards around :)
Thanks for dropping by and caring to comment. Hope to see you around !
Love this one!!!
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Thank you for your great photography and for sharing your knowledge!!!!!, it is very helpful, I´ve started to experiment with ND filter and learneing…..
Thank you for your kind words Marlisha and i am glad you found it useful. I am sure with your creative imagination you will love it :)
Thsi is a stunning shot !!!! What is a stop filter? Never heard of that !
ND stands for neutral density.8 stops refers to 8 units of light. the short of it (behind all this technical jargon that i will come to later) is that a ND filter is nothing but a piece of black glass (sometimes even plastic)that cuts some of the light reaching your sensor (or film) – that’s all it is :)
how its used is perhaps more interesting.In brigt light you can not take an exposure less than a certain shutter speed(because their is so much light around) but there are creative cases when you would want to take exposures of a few seconds (to a few minutes) and that is where ND filters are useful. It is primarily a landscape photographer tool but can easily be used for Street photography too.Use your favorite search engine for examples :)
this blog has some more stories :
http://singhray.blogspot.com/search/label/Vari-ND
That’s really interesting .. had never head of that before !!! Thankssss for your explanation!
you are welcome. Looking forward to seeing some creative use of ND filters from you soon :)
Super!
Excellent!
Thanks Joy. I could not add comments to your photo blog. Is that by design or do i need to login with a certain account ?