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Water, ducks, flowers and a UFO

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Steve Foss

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Here are some from today. Was out on an excursion, so my focus was not on my own photography, but I did manage to capture a few. It was a gorgeous spring day to be in the woods. smilesmile

This was shot with stacked 8 stop ND and 4 stop ND filters for a darkening effect of 12 full stops to achieve the 8-second exposure needed for the cottony water. Also at iso50 and f22 with the Canon 17-40.

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I have been looking at ND filters, now I know I want one. Got a graduated the other day but yet to try it out. I can already tell its not dark enough for the shot I have layed out in my head.

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Thanks so much, everyone.

DD, the shaft of the fern went straight out the back. I call it "The Batfern," as in . . . "Holy UFO suspension, Batman!" gringrin

These last six months have been a wild ride for a lot of reasons. While I've been busy with a ton of non photography things, I've also been shooting for clients (some, uh, candid photographs) all along, just not the types of things to post on a family site. Nuff said about that. wink

The ND (neutral density) filters are key when attempting fuzzy water images during daylight hours. You still can't get it done on a sunny day, but there were heavy clouds when I captured the first image. With no filters, a person can easily get those long, long exposures by doing the fuzzy water stuff before sunrise or after sunset, when there's still enough ambient light to see around you, but not enough light to ruin the effort. Today's was just an experiment to see what 12 stops of ND could do at midday under a light overcast sky.

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Super use of depth of field on the first three images. The emergent fern is very cool and reminds me of other such great fauna images of yours that have been posted on this site.

A great addition to your portfolio.

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