Experimenting
So I got a couple new ND filters recently, a 6-stop and a 10-stop. I wanted to see how they would perform when stacked, and this is one of the results.
The good: the two filters together are really dark. This was a 25-second exposure at f/6.3 (ISO 400) taken under bright clouds.
The bad: the two filters together produced some funky and unexpected colors on the image, and worse, the colors were different in different parts of the image! So, frustrated with that, I cheated and made the whole image mono while processing.
But the filters did their job in turning the choppy waters of the lake almost glassy in the image. Some flow lines in the water are visible below the reflection of the bridge.
My takeaway: I don't need to stack the filters. The 10-stop ND should provide all the long-exposure opportunities I'll need.
Second experiment in my next post.
Experimenting
So I got a couple new ND filters recently, a 6-stop and a 10-stop. I wanted to see how they would perform when stacked, and this is one of the results.
The good: the two filters together are really dark. This was a 25-second exposure at f/6.3 (ISO 400) taken under bright clouds.
The bad: the two filters together produced some funky and unexpected colors on the image, and worse, the colors were different in different parts of the image! So, frustrated with that, I cheated and made the whole image mono while processing.
But the filters did their job in turning the choppy waters of the lake almost glassy in the image. Some flow lines in the water are visible below the reflection of the bridge.
My takeaway: I don't need to stack the filters. The 10-stop ND should provide all the long-exposure opportunities I'll need.
Second experiment in my next post.