Sunday, February 5, 2012

Day 5, New Tripod

Our tripod arrived yesterday so I decided to experiment with it a little bit.  A few months ago I worked with my father-in-law to put in a rock fountain in their backyard.  I decided to take some long exposure shots of the water (>1 second) to make use of the tripod.  Without a tripod these shots would appear blurry, particularly with my unsteady hands.  Taking the shots was quite a learning experience; I had to mess around with shutter speed, lighting and angling a lot.  At first I tried taking pictures of the splash off the rock but settled on taking pictures of the water coming out of the fountain.  I ended using the zoom lens for the final shots.  I took four shots at different shutter speeds - from top to bottom: 5, 10, 15 and 20 seconds. I think it looks like a fog machine.





I feel like I have some room for improvement with these shots, but like where it ended up compared to my initial attempts today.

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