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Photo of the Day - January 2012
- Thread starter Designer Dale
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So, this is a long exposure taken at daytime correct? Heavy ND and something like f18?
Exif says 1 second at f/11. Assuming this is near San Fran (looks like the Marin coastline), the 5:30 p.m. time is pretty close to sundown.
Also, without exif you could still surmise a shorter exposure time because the sea would be flattened out otherwise.
★ PERHAPS CARDIFF ISN'T THAT UGLY AFTER ALL ★
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With the right angles, editing, etc. perhaps Cardiff can be kinda cool after all? I love the way these buildings have come out!
Shot with Kodak Portra 400 film on my Nikon F801s. This film is really nice with a stunning vintage grain! Love it!
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With the right angles, editing, etc. perhaps Cardiff can be kinda cool after all? I love the way these buildings have come out!
Shot with Kodak Portra 400 film on my Nikon F801s. This film is really nice with a stunning vintage grain! Love it!
Arigato! Interesting. The first thing I did was try it out in B&W. I kind of liked it that way. The thing I don't like about the shot is it looks distorted. I have to go back and redo it. I can't seem to get the perspective right.
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Exif says 1 second at f/11. Assuming this is near San Fran (looks like the Marin coastline), the 5:30 p.m. time is pretty close to sundown.
Also, without exif you could still surmise a shorter exposure time because the sea would be flattened out otherwise.
heron88 explained it for the most part, but the time in the EXIF is wrong. I forgot to change the time on my camera, so it was off by nine hours when I took that shot...oops! (Thanks for mentioning it; I've just fixed it in the camera!) It's actually a morning scene, not long after sunrise.
To answer your question, Schtumple, I got the longer exposure by using a CPL and a graduated ND (over the sky). As heron88 pointed out, it was shot at a time of day when the light was quite low to begin with, so I didn't need any really dark ND filter to get to a 1-second exposure.
Oh, also, it's not north of SF but south of it, in Pacific Grove. That's Asilomar State Beach.
The perspective doesn't bother me at all. The distortion of the reflection helps to make the actual architecture look 'correct' by comparison, at least it does to my eye. But if you do go back, I hope you'll share the resulting shots here as well!
I don't see it when I use Firefox. It's not visible in Chrome either. The very first post of this thread has some tutorials about posting photos. Perhaps one of those might solve the problem for you?
