How to Create the Misty Water Effect in Photography |  |
- How to Create the Misty Water Effect in Photography
- Watch How Google Maps Photographs the Tallest Building in the World
- This New Digital Camera is an Absolute Behemoth
- Supermoon Photography: Photographers Comparing Shots from all over the World
| How to Create the Misty Water Effect in Photography Posted: 25 Jun 2013 04:23 PM PDT Have you looked at a landscape photographer’s photo and wondered how they got the water coming down from a waterfall to look so misty? Or how did they get the ocean in a seascape photograph to look so smooth?  “Paradise Gully” captured by Jim Worrall (Click Image to See More From Jim Worrall) My guess is that if you are starting out in landscape photography its probably one of the first things you’ve tried to do. If you got it right the first time that’s great, if you didn’t then let me show you just how easy it can be to create the misty water effect. There is every chance that if you are just starting out that you won’t have purchased yourself any filters as yet. Filters will make it easier for you to create the misty water effect but they aren’t essential, its just means you’ll have to get up a little earlier in the morning and stay out a little later in the evening. So the first thing you’re going to need to do is to get up early in the morning to get your misty water shot, its pretty much impossible to do it during full daylight conditions unless you have the new breed of neutral density filters which are extremely dark. Even then I wouldn’t recommend shooting during full daylight as you just aren’t getting the best available light. You should be ready to start shooting your subject at least 30 minutes prior to sunrise or 30 minutes after sunset, you will also need to have your camera mounted on a tripod as you’ll need to keep your shutter open for quite a few seconds to create the misty water effect. Once you are ready to go its probably easiest to set your camera onto aperture priority mode and use the lowest ISO setting that you possibly can. Set your aperture to a setting around F16 if you can. It goes without saying that your next step should be to focus on your chosen subject to make sure your photo will be as sharp as possible. You should also consider getting a remote shutter release and to use mirror lockup to make sure that your camera doesn’t shake while you are taking the photo. Now for the fun part, take the photo! If your shutter is open long enough you’ll see that you too have created the misty water effect that you have been after. How hard was that? If you decide that landscape or seascape photography is something that you definitely want to continue doing then you should at some stage consider purchasing a few neutral density filters, preferably the darker the better. The darker a neutral density filter the longer you can shoot your subjects after the sun has risen or the earlier you can take a photo before the sunsets.  Photo captured by Tomas Eriksson (Click Image to See More From Tomas Eriksson) Over the years I have found from experience that the best shutter speeds for creating the misty water effect is anywhere between 1 to 4 seconds. Anything less than this and the water doesn’t have that silky smooth look and anything more than that flattens the water almost entirely and makes it look almost boring. Of course every scene is always different and you may need to hold your shutter open longer or for a shorter period depending on what you are trying to achieve. Now for my last tip, make sure that you focus on your subject before putting on your neutral density filter otherwise its almost impossible to focus. About the Author For Further Training:You may want to consider this eBook, it’s aim is to cover the process of capturing long exposure photographs from start to finish. It documents simple steps that can be employed anytime you embark on a long exposure photo shoot. It can be found here: Long Exposure Photography Guide Go to full article: How to Create the Misty Water Effect in Photography |
| Watch How Google Maps Photographs the Tallest Building in the World Posted: 25 Jun 2013 03:49 PM PDT Google Street View’s massive database of images covers thousands of locations all over the world. Biking and walking routes have been added along with time estimations for both. But perhaps one of Google’s coolest additions is their latest. They have moved from taking images outside to taking them inside, and have just recently photographed the tallest building in the world allowing anyone to take a virtual tour of the Burj Khlifa, watch how the process works (for those of you reading this by email, the video can be seen here): On February 8th, 2005, Google announced the release of their newest web application, Google Maps. What started as a simple online map program soon became a major tool for satellite imaging. Two years after the initial release, Google implemented a real-time traffic flow upgrade for 30 of the largest U.S. cities. In that same year, Google announced Street View, which allowed users to view major cities from the perspective of a vehicle driving down major streets. Today, these upgrades have been expanded and advanced. The Burj Khalifa isn’t the only building Google has recorded. There is access to over 10,000 floor plans from all over the world. Google plans on photographing airports, museums, shopping malls, universities, and many other public places.  A view atop the spire, the tallest point on the Burj Khalifa It’s truly amazing (albeit a bit concerning) that we can now see a satellite image of a place, zoom in on that location and view it from the street, and then go inside and tour the building itself all while sitting at the computer at home (explore the Burj here). Who knows, maybe in the next decade we will be able to visit the whole world without ever leaving the house. Go to full article: Watch How Google Maps Photographs the Tallest Building in the World |
| This New Digital Camera is an Absolute Behemoth Posted: 25 Jun 2013 02:08 PM PDT As if Japan’s dominance of the optical photographic market wasn’t carved deeply enough in stone, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan installed their new Hyper Suprime-Cam last August on the Mauna Kea Observatories’ Subaru Telescope in Hawaii. This telescope has no relation to the car company, except that both are named after the same cluster of stars, known in English as the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters. The project was spearheaded by Dr. Satoshi Miyazaki, with collaboration from Canon Inc, Mitsubishi Electric, and a number of prominent universities. This astro-camera is an absolute behemoth; weighing in at 3 tons and measuring 3 meters high, it contains 116 CCD sensors joined together for a total of 870 million pixels. These combine to capture a field of view of 1.5 degrees – seven times more than the current Suprime-Cam. The sensors are specially engineered to capture the extreme light spectrum of outer space, in hopes that the images collected might help understand some of science’s toughest questions, such as the nature of dark matter and the rapid acceleration of cosmological expansion.  A cross-section of the Subaru Telescope’s new Hyper Suprime-Cam (click to view full size). The Hyper Suprime-Cam has been in the works since 2008, championed largely by Japanese universities, as well as the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan and Princeton University in the United States. Mitsubishi built the focus drive motor, as well as the chassis which holds a Canon-made lens in seven parts. Its sensor must be operated at temperatures of -100 degrees Celsius to eliminate noise and interference from damaging the raw data. Thanks to groundbreaking machines like this, the photographic medium continues to enjoy the honour of being the modern world’s most useful art form, always there to lend a hand in helping us unravel the greatest mysteries of the universe. Go to full article: This New Digital Camera is an Absolute Behemoth |
| Supermoon Photography: Photographers Comparing Shots from all over the World Posted: 25 Jun 2013 11:55 AM PDT The biggest supermoon of 2013 occurred in the last few days (and is still huge), over the evening of June 22-23 – it was a celestial phenomenon which brought out cameras around the globe to capture the event in an impressive flurry of amateur astrophotography. These three samples show the array of ways that the moon can be photographed, with each approaching the giant cheese-rock from a very different perspective:  Supermoon (Click for Full Size, Imgur) A supermoon happens when the moon passes unusually close to the Earth, making it appear significantly larger than usual. In the shot above, our trusty space-companion is framed by its own light through the wispy clouds. Its spherical edge glows brilliantly, illuminating the extremely fine detail that is visible when the moon orbits so near. It was taken by Reddit user archioptic on a Nikon D3100 with a Tamron 18-270mm lens. It combines two exposures; the moon was shot at 1/160th of a second at f/11 using 100 ISO, while the clouds were captured at 1/80th of a second at f/6.3 using 3200 ISO. They were then processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.  Supermoon behind the statue of liberty captured with a superzoom lens (imgur) In this image, the moon takes on a hazy orange colour, which contrasts beautifully with the subdued blue of the early morning sky as it sets behind the Statue of Liberty. It was taken by Reddit user Thund3rbolt.  Supermoon over India (imgur) Above, the supermoon rises over the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, India. Reddit user DontNoodles created this shot using a Tamron 70-300mm lens on an f/8 aperture; it was then processed in Lightroom. Go to full article: Supermoon Photography: Photographers Comparing Shots from all over the World |
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