Long exposure; ND filter

Playing around with my new ND filter at lunch. 30 sec. @ f/11

Nice shot, looks like something was shot out of the light.

Neat effect.

thanks, I have to try a day when it's less sunny. this was the only shot that came good. the rest look like mistakes even though the blur was intentional. Not a lot of creeks and waterfalls in the city....

What filter do you have? I got one for Christmas a few years and it's just not dark enough to take long exposures during the day.

very cool shot . probably hard to do but , if you could get one without the cars in the background it would look really spacey .

CopenKagan wrote in post #7557832
What filter do you have? I got one for Christmas a few years and it's just not dark enough to take long exposures during the day.

it's a hoya HMC .9 ND filter. It's not strong enough to get any blur on a clear sunny day. From what I've read you need something in the range of 10 stops which I believe is a 3.0 ND. I love long exposures and have always doen them at night. I've this was my first attempt with the ND so I may add a stronger one to my set down the road.

eddiebrown wrote in post #7560265
very cool shot . probably hard to do but , if you could get one without the cars in the background it would look really spacey .

thanks, yeah I tried to avoid the cars but its' pretty hard in the city. I'm going to re-shoot this because there is an LED light display that runs every hour and a bell rings. the sides of the tunnel have white chase lights that run in a pretty fast sequence from one end to the other and the on the return pass there is purple neon bands that span the arches in the ceiling and chase back up finishing with a gong of the bell. maybe better to shoot at night to aviod the parked cars.

seems very "Back to the Future"-ish to me.

I like it.

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