Easter Greetings!

Saturday Self-Challenge: Long Exposure

This week involved a lot of trial and error (mostly error). I learned a bit about the relationship between shutter speed and f-stop. Since I didn't have an ND filter, I was limited in how slow I could make my shutter speed without blowing out highlights. To compensate in some degree for the lack of an ND filter, I increased the f-stop to 14 and took the image in my living room using only the sunlight streaming from the window (the glass is polarized which further dampens the light). I shot at 0.4 sec., which is slow enough to record movement of the figures in my photo without blowing out the image. It was shot using a tripod to keep non-moving parts of the image sharp. This was also a week to experiment with special effects I don't normally play with. ;-)

Happy Easter to my friends at ipernity!

Sylvie, Jenny McIntyre, Smiley Derleth, RHH and 31 other people have particularly liked this photo

35 comments - The latest ones

Taormina

Funny idea ... happy Easter still

7 years ago.

Graham Chance ^club

Happy Easter Val. I like the waving flower best ;-)

7 years ago.

Karen's Place ^club

This is really cute and I love seeing the movement. Great job!

Happy Easter, Val! :)

7 years ago.

Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club

Great experiment. I would have tried some artificial (torch) light to get even longer exposures ;-) But I do understand your problem. I had to wait until twilight to get long enough exposures outside. And I have built in ND filter on my camera! =D

Tough challenge when one is used to go sleep early... =D

7 years ago.

Hélène Lombard

Une adorable carte de voeux !! MERCI. Happy Easter ! Bonnes Pâques.

7 years ago.

Andy Rodker ^club

You made it all work together fantastically well! Enjoyable result!
Happy Easter!

7 years ago.

Peter Castell ^club

Happy Easter and a Joyful Spring Valerie, I'm pleased you enjoyed experimenting that's the fun part and of course with digital it doesn't cost anything, the result is great, I'm certainly not an expert I just like playing, I think you would have been better trying when the sun wasn't shining sunlight can be harsh, as you had created a background you could have used a higher f/stop allowing a slower speed. If you are using slow shutter speeds think about getting a cable release they are not over expensive, or use the timer to reduce any vibration. Have Fun Peter

7 years ago.

Jaap van 't Veen ^club

Happy Easter.

7 years ago.

Annaig56 ^club

joyeuses paques ,,

7 years ago.

Chrissy ^club

ein fröhliches Osterbild ist es geworden!

7 years ago.

William Sutherland ^club

Delightful Easter compo!

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7 years ago.

Ulrich John ^club

Thank you, Val ! Happy Easter for you, too !

7 years ago.

Balatre

Joli clin d'oeil ! ;-)

7 years ago.

Stormlizard ^club

Very nicely done Valerie.

Happy Easter.

7 years ago.

Marie-claire Gallet

Too much complicated for me, Val !! I prefer when theme are more keen on creativity than technique, but you know that lol !! Happy Easter !!!!!!!!!!!

7 years ago.

Jan

Happy Easter! You are very inventive Val!

7 years ago.

╰☆☆June☆☆╮ ^club

Good work ;-)
A very Happy Easter to you and yours !!

7 years ago.

Rosalyn Hilborne

Great movement! Happy Easter :)

7 years ago.

Xata ^club

Quite a job, Val! You can also use the polarizer to diminish the entrance of light (it is what I have done in my pic)

7 years ago.

HaarFager ^club

It turned out just right, Val! There's enough blurred motion to see movement, but not too much light to overexpose. Great photo and Happy Easter to you and your family as well!

7 years ago.