Well, my friend. What’s happening in your world this week?
(That’s the crazy thing about this blogging business – it feels so one sided.)
If you meet me, I’m not at all this self absorbed! I love a good story – listening though, NOT telling (ha ha hah). But here I feel like I’m always blah blah blahing about me.
So tell me, how was your week – can you claim a big success? Suffering some frustration? Feeling restless? Got plans for the long weekend – off the the cottage at the beach perhaps? Taking your camera of course? No! Leave the golf clubs and lawnmower alone – forget the flowers and the garden – take your dog and your camera out for a drive!
Grab your tripod. When the sun hits the horizon, you hit the beach for some incredible sunset shots. Or try an ulta-long exposure with either a neutral density filter or a polarizer (or both), shutter at about 60 seconds (you’ll have to experiment a bit), aperture at whatever it needs to be. Find a long dock or a concrete pier. Set up with the horizon on your top 1/3, water for the rest. Have the dock extending out into the scene. Mount your camera on the tripod, compose, use your remote shutter release, set your shutter for a 3 sec. delay so the mirror slap won’t affect your image.
Wait for 63 glorious seconds, enjoy the peace…while you’re waitng, the water will turn into a milky smooth fog-like form inside your camera, (figuratively speaking!). those things that don’t move will be dark and sharp, but anything moving will be transformed into a remarable ephemeral antitexture.
How does that sound? "Too weird" you say? Yeah, I guess you’re right….I may be a good listener but I am still weird! No argument there. Well, I gotta go now. I will be trying the ultralong exposure this weeked with a Singhray super neutral density filter that give you an amazing 8 extra stops!!! fun stuff.
Ok. Thanks for the chat, and hope we can do it for real one day.
toodles!
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