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art, australia, Camera, Cinemascope, Color balance, Focal length, Mongolia, Neutral density filter, Nikon, photo, photography, photos, victoria
Fun time indeed. My new play toy (home-made $25 ND filter) has had its modifications by way of an old pair of tracksuit pants. Legs cut off, sewn together to create a blackout sock. Once pulled over the camera with style and flair, no light gets in and the pics come out very nicely thank you.
Here are the test shots taken today.
Out of camera (f25, 3:00).
And with white balance adjusted:
Not bad me thinks. Here is another shot taken with the same settings and same, very trendy, tracksuit pants over the camera.
And with white balance adjusted using View-NX2 (Nikon‘s file handling software).
And this is the same photo played with in Picassa with the Cinemascope affect added. I kind of like the effect and for a 2 second fix, it doesn’t come up too bad. The vignette around the top may be from my pant legs or from a little bit of filter because of the 24mm focal length. I am yet to play with accurately focussing on any other focal length. That’s coming.
For fun I took a photo of one of the kids and their grandmother washing the windows. I swear they were moving around in front on the camera for a full three minutes. I have tried this one in a monochrome just to see and this is what I got. Must admit I have added a little touch of green just because I like it.
So, people really can disappear. Am keen to try a city scape now and see how that goes. The low light pics seem to get more camera noise than the bright lights, but not too bad given the camera in use. Oooo, playing is fun!
I’ll get back to more normal posting and stop boring you with this stuff real soon – I promise. 🙂
Oh, and here is a cool time-lapse sequence shot with a ND3.0 filter in Mongolia by photographer Timothy Allen.
You can see his blog on it by clicking here.
PS: Happy birthday Frank!
And so... 
Ah, now I get it.
When I first saw your ND filter used so you could photograph an eclipse or solar transit, I understood why, but then when you started using it on normal landscapes I was wondered why you would cut out the light when the camera could already cope with it.
But looking at the latest sequence it clicked – you reduce the light so as to be able to take a very long exposure in normal lighting conditions, thus removing the kids from your photos. Brilliant!
That’s all part of it but lots more. Stay tuned for me playing around with this over the coming months 🙂