10-stop Neutral Density filter
14th November 2009
I've just taken delivery of a 10 stop Neutral Density filter, which I'm going to experiment with over the next few months. This filter allows long exposures in broad daylight which means that moving objects, cars and people, will be very very blurred, possibly to the point of almost not registering in the image.
10 stops of light are removed by this filter, in effect turning a 1/250th second normal light shot into a multi-second exposure. The filter itself is almost opaque, just like welders glasses, which makes it quite difficult to compose the image with the filter in place.
A tripod, cable release and mirror lock-up will be required whilst using this filter in order to keep the camera absolutely still.
I bought this filter after seeing some of the effects during a lecture by Doug Chinnery (see my links for his website) where he showed a few examples of long exposure shots. I will set up a gallery to publish some of the example images. Watch this space.
I'm also awaiting the returnof my Canon G9 which has been converted to capture infrared light rather than visible light. More experimentation I think ;-)
10 stops of light are removed by this filter, in effect turning a 1/250th second normal light shot into a multi-second exposure. The filter itself is almost opaque, just like welders glasses, which makes it quite difficult to compose the image with the filter in place.
A tripod, cable release and mirror lock-up will be required whilst using this filter in order to keep the camera absolutely still.
I bought this filter after seeing some of the effects during a lecture by Doug Chinnery (see my links for his website) where he showed a few examples of long exposure shots. I will set up a gallery to publish some of the example images. Watch this space.
I'm also awaiting the returnof my Canon G9 which has been converted to capture infrared light rather than visible light. More experimentation I think ;-)