Tasmania Stream - Daytime Long Exposure Photography

30 sec exposure / F9 /Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 17-40 /  B+W 110 neutral density filter

A nice little running stream found on a recent drive down southern Tasmania.  It’s always nice to stumble across something by complete luck that hasn’t been overly photographed. I spent an hour or so with an umbrella above my head firing photos off without interruption. As this was captured in the middle of the day, it was still quite bright which meant I couldn’t get the exposure times I was after (5-30 seconds). For this reason a B+W 110 neutral density filter was used which allowed me to have a decent daytime long exposure.

In case you haven’t noticed, I recently changed my blog theme over to something a little more developed with photographers in mind. Better? Worse? And have also implemented Commentluv which is a plugin that rewards users who comment by removing the ‘nofollow’ as automatically added by WordPress. This is beneficial to you as it adds a link back to your blog or website which adds value to your Google search ranking. Obviously this can be abused so commenting for the sake of it to get your link out there will be marked as spam as per usual.

Two links that caught my eye this week..

Martin Pot has recently written a great article on understanding shutter speeds. I’ve always wanted to write an article about understanding shutter speeds but am hopeless at explaining things. This article sums it up perfectly with pictures to help guide your understanding. For anyone interested I too have written a small guide on what equipment I recommend for daytime long exposure photography.

And something quite irrelevant to this post, DIYPhotography posted a helpful guide on making a  DIY follow focus unit for your HDSLR on the cheap. I love playing around with video mode on my Canon 5D II, especially changing the focus whilst recording. However have found changing focus without any devices to aid in the smoothness leaves the clip looking quite average at best. I’m now rather tempted to put together something similar to this guide.