This picture here I made last spring from one of my favorite spots in Boston.
This time I used a little longer exposure. How long? (Hint: You may guess on the picture below that has the same exposure time).
Yes, you are right: 3 minutes. How can you shot 3 minutes or longer during the day? What you need is a very strong neutral density filter (e.g. ND10). But this is also pretty expensive. A year ago I came across this picture by Peter Carr and a pretty cheap solution.
If you want to filter a lot of light, why not using a welding glass as a filter (cost 2-3$). And yes, this really works. All what you have to care is a heavy white balance afterwards, because most of the time the picture are way too green. Shooting raw is therefore highly recommend.
The only lasting problem is to attach the glass to your lens. I used super glue to attach it to a filter ring, so I can screw it on my camera lens.Here is a photo of my setup.
Tell me how you like the results and the setup
All the best from Boston
Werner
P.S.: By the way here is the Black and White version (4B5WK94SKEAR)
genius idea.
i might try it
What density welding glass did you use? they come in various standard shades.
Also, did you set the camera to a certain ISO speed when you took the shot?
Hi Joel,
something like this I would always shoot with as low as possible ISO. So here is was ISO 100.
I try to find out the density of my welding filter, but didn’t found any hint anymore. I think it was anything around 10 (or was it 4?). It was just a ordinary welding glass. Does this make sense?
I my opinion, if you really wanna go long exposure, you can take the higher numbers, because there is still a lot of light coming through 😉
Does this help?
Werner
Wow that’s a great idea thanks for posting this! I have always wanted to try out long exposures but didn’t want to fork over a lot of money! Btw where can you get one? Home Depot?
Hi Vick,
I got mine from Ebay. But as an amateur soder, I had a hard time to find one. But every serious home improvement store, should have something like that.
hope that helps
Best
Werner
Awesome thanks!Love your pics btw!