 Dan C |
Graduated ND filter or not... Ok, There is a place I like to go to take pictures often here in WI. (sorry, I do not have a slide scanner yet... thats a previous question). I have been going there almost on a yearly basis and even though over the years my knowledge has grown the pictures still dont turn out right. The setting is a stream that has cut out the landscape over the years quite a bit so the cliffs can be steep. My shots are now a little more adventerous but when I go to take pictures of the stream and want motion blur from the water the background is overexposed. I have contemplated buying a graduated ND filter to cover the upper portion of the composition (mostly trees and cliffs with some sky peaking in) but I am wondering if there is a way to do it without while not underexposing the foreground stream. Unfortunately I have lost the paper that I wrote the exposure times down on, but I THINK they ranged from f11 at about 2 sec to f22 at 10. I even tried metering the light from the upper portion of the pic. Also, any suggestion on slide film for this type of scene would be great. I use mostly Kodachrome 64 and Ektachrome 100. Havt tried Fugi velvia yet. Thanks! Dan
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Maynard McKillen |
Dear Dan: Great state for scenery pictures, by the way. Quite a few waterfalls up north, too. Have you considered shooting the stream at a time of day when the sky visible in the viewfinder is not as bright? I suspect the stream is lit by skylight rather than by direct sunlight, to hear you describe it, so you may find the range of brightness between the skylit stream and the sky visible in the viewfinder is lower near dusk or dawn, or on an overcast day. Of course, shooting at such times means the skylight that illuminates the stream is lower, potentially requiring longer exposure times and more compenstion for reciprocity failure. Again, though, the range of brightness seems to be the gremlin here, and that range may be lower at certain times of the day. Then, too, using that slide scanner you plan to get would allow you to scan the slide into Photoshop and "drop in" a sky more to your liking...
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