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<blockquote data-quote="Dangerspouse" data-source="post: 771005" data-attributes="member: 46690">Lol. The local camera club I belong to holds a monthly challenge much like we hold our weekly one. The challenge for our November 2nd meeting coming up is &quot;long exposure of moving water using an ND filter&quot;. No surprise, every member I talked to was planning on heading to one of the many streams, lakes, or waterfalls around here to take the stereotypic smooth water shot. I decided to try something different:[ATTACH=full]365712[/ATTACH]By the way, that is the best rain hat I've ever owned. Got it in Mountain Home, Arkansas, where my MIL lives. Good thick leather, and even foldable. Had it a decade now, and my head stayed completely dry here through take after take after take...after take.....after take.....God, I did so many takes! This was one of the harder shoots I've ever done. I'm holding a remote shutter release in Bulb mode there, trying to stay as still as possible. This was the best I could manage, but with the water hitting my head and needing to breath occassionally, there is definitely gonna be motion blur even though I was initially in focus. There were two softboxes set up at 45 degree angles left and right to try to cut down on shadows. I metered for the back wall first, setting the exposure to keep it darker than me. I sure was clean when the shoot was over!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dangerspouse, post: 771005, member: 46690"] Lol. The local camera club I belong to holds a monthly challenge much like we hold our weekly one. The challenge for our November 2nd meeting coming up is "long exposure of moving water using an ND filter". No surprise, every member I talked to was planning on heading to one of the many streams, lakes, or waterfalls around here to take the stereotypic smooth water shot. I decided to try something different: [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]365712._xfImport[/ATTACH] By the way, that is the best rain hat I've ever owned. Got it in Mountain Home, Arkansas, where my MIL lives. Good thick leather, and even foldable. Had it a decade now, and my head stayed completely dry here through take after take after take...after take.....after take..... God, I did so many takes! This was one of the harder shoots I've ever done. I'm holding a remote shutter release in Bulb mode there, trying to stay as still as possible. This was the best I could manage, but with the water hitting my head and needing to breath occassionally, there is definitely gonna be motion blur even though I was initially in focus. There were two softboxes set up at 45 degree angles left and right to try to cut down on shadows. I metered for the back wall first, setting the exposure to keep it darker than me. I sure was clean when the shoot was over! [/QUOTE]

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