Daytime Long Exposure

Tried my hand at some long exposures using ND filters. The pic below ended up being a 10 stop stacked on a 6 stop for a total of 2min11second exposure. Unfortunately the circumstances were not ideal for framing my pic. My camera was mounted on a gorilla pod which is short so angling up meant to see the pic in liveview my head was to the ground as if I was listening for an earthquake. It was so bright that the liveview screen was hard to see, sweating bullets with tourists walking around. I used my 16-35 f4 lens on a D600. This is the lighthouse in St. Augustine, FL.

BM6_3037-Edit by BMalinis, on Flickr

Cool shot, and what a site you must have made.

FastGlass said:

Cool shot, and what a site you must have made.

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I think my setup and shot work became its own little tourist attraction.

PapaST said:

I think my setup and shot work became its own little tourist attraction.

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I wish I were there. I would have had a great shot to post in the "shoot the photographer " thread.

Vertical crop at 4:5 ratio and run it on the right 1/3.



Nice shot, suitable for framing!!

Very cool image, I like it!!! I've always wanted to use this technique to nix humans out of an image of a busy area but have yet to do it. Btw - how bad was the vignetting on the original image?

Dave_W said:

Very cool image, I like it!!! I've always wanted to use this technique to nix humans out of an image of a busy area but have yet to do it. Btw - how bad was the vignetting on the original image?

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Here is a snippet of the original from LR no edits: