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Oct 18, 2008 20:24 |  #1

My first chance to really try shooting "Silky" water.
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Oct 18, 2008 21:24 |  #2

Well, as far as the long exposure and the silk goes, I think you did wonderful...maybe a little blown out there towards the middle of the shot, but not bad. In fact my only real gripe about this shot is the far background. It looks like this was shot near or under a bridge or something...definitely some kind of man-made concrete there in the background that's really out of place with the rest of it IMHO. In other words, it's a good attempt and technically you did well, but I would pay more attention to the composition and the background next time.

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Oct 18, 2008 21:48 |  #3

well done! i have yet to do this experiment myself...


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Oct 18, 2008 21:53 |  #4

You can get any kind of water you want by playing with a range of shutter speeds. However, for a more interesting picture, I would crop out the concrete at the top and let people see only the natural part.


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Oct 19, 2008 07:41 |  #5

I can definitely crop it down some. And probably adjust for the blown parts in the RAW image.


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Oct 20, 2008 20:35 as a reply to  @ Jpatten's post |  #6

This any better?

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Oct 21, 2008 04:29 |  #7
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Jpatten wrote in post #6521862 (external link)
I can definitely crop it down some. And probably adjust for the blown parts in the RAW image.

I was just about to say that! Much better cropped. It's hard to get it without blowing the highlights.




  
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Oct 21, 2008 06:04 |  #8

Considering most of it was heavily shaded and that portion was much brighter, would have been sunlight if the sun had been higher.


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Oct 21, 2008 22:46 |  #9

IMHO you could crop it even tighter something like this


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Oct 23, 2008 13:13 |  #10

Ditto Bob. Like the crop. See if you can lighten it up a bit without lowing the highlights way out.




  
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