Thanks for the detailed explanation John.
And the link still doesn't work!
Thanks for the detailed explanation John.
And the link still doesn't work!
Last edited by Mark L; 09-09-2013 at 9:38pm.
I have tried several times to post the long exposure chart, but it just won't post for some reason.
Cause you are using the wrong like - your post above (post 19 in this thread) shows the reason, it has 'webkit-fake-url' in the middle of the image link. It is not a valid link.
Also note that as you have only 19 posts you are not allowed to post links to anything other than your own photos at this time. read the site rules (rules 3-7)
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Ive given those super dark ND filters a go, found that the live view simulator in M mode really good for getting things right. A hand held meter also came in handy.
Jon
Last edited by freelancer; 10-09-2013 at 1:04pm.
hi Elizabeth, noticed you were shooting in shutter priority mode also using centre weighted average so my guess is the fact that you were on an auto exposure mode the camera metered for the foreground which would be a lot darker than the sky therefore the whole image was overexposed
what you should do is expose manually also consider getting set of grad nd filters and in the case of sunset reverse grad work even better (only singh ray makes them as far as i am aware and they are expensive as hell, about to plonk cash down for one myself) to balance out sky and foreground
just remember the camera does not really know how you want to exposure the scene, learn to expose manually and when you need to exposure compensate and everything will become clear, chasing middle of the meter often will not give you the correct exposure pending on metering mode and what you are metering off
for example this shot i took few days ago
birthday sunset @Moogerah by basketballfreak6, on Flickr
i had a lee 3 stop soft grad nd (darker on the top, lighter on the bottom) to balance out foreground with light in the sky stacked with a 6 stop nd and exposed manually (came to 3 mins exposure)
especially in this case during sunset towards last light sun drops very quickly so light changes in that 3 mins so i had to actually guesstimate the exposure a bit
hope that made sense
Last edited by basketballfreak6; 02-10-2013 at 11:40pm.