Borderline
This shot was approx 8 minutes @ f8, ISO 200 with ND4 grad filter.
Taken about half an hour before sunrise at Sandgate, Qld.
I calculated the exposure by taking a shot at f4 ISO 3200 and multiplying it out.
Borderline belongs to the following groups:
A Fascinating Purple (75% Purple), All New Improved Seascapes [only upload one per day], Australian Contemporary Photography, Beach Art, Dawn and Dusk Light, Horizons, Human and Nature, Landscape Photography, Light and Reflection 1/24, Queensland, SEA, The FENCE group and Timelapse/Long Exposure Photography Available for sale asGreeting Cards, Matted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints, Canvas Prints, Framed Prints and Posters
Sharon Mau
The shimmering sheen of the water with an 8 minute exposure is so exquisite! This is a beautiful image!!
Mel Brackstone
Glad to see I’m not the only nutter out an hour before dawn! Fabulous result, Ben!
John Vandeven
OMG…That is a fantastic shot Ben. Excellent work….Love the colour.
JimFilmer
Great contrast of the silkiness of the water versus the strenth of the manmade objects
simonesphotos
Nice work Ben, love those early morning tones and the light on the fence, great stuff!
Susan Trigg
Just gorgeous!
Alex Marks
great work!!
GayeL Art
Stunning…..well done!
Brandie1
Gorgeous John.
I can see anther feature here.
Slam Dunk your good.
down23
Absolutely breathtaking! Well done! =)
luis ferreiro
Great Maths, beautiful exposure and a stunning image bensound.
micklyn
Simply magical! surely needs to be in the purple group! how beautiful!
annie curry
I don’t know that I could wait 8 mins, well done, this is great!!!
bensound
Thanks very much for commenting guys, so glad you like it !
Laurette Ruys
great image, awesome calculations at that time of day :)
snappyexposure
Yes agree with all the above a great image, well done. I usually sleep at this time of day, maybe a lesson to be learned for me.
Svetlana Sewell
Amazing work!!!!!!!!!
igotmeacanon
love the math…havent a clue how it works though….cracking image
Kevin Bergen
This is really cool, Ben! Very striking!
Richard George
Very nice indeed!
johnr
super image the colour and most of all the shadows in the water well done.
Paul Manning
spectacular! cheers Paul
Rany Lutz
You nailed the exposure…..teriffic!
Sue Kane
Outstanding Ben!!!
Fremme
beautiful image, great job. settings are awesome, depth in unreal, great job
Sue Nueckel
As all your work….. this is AMAZING
Scott d'Almeida
outstanding
John Kowalski
Fabulous image Ben! exposed to perfection, beautiful colour and an excellent capture!!
Gabby87
WOW….................... That’s so very cool looking and nice work too!!!!
=D
Josie Jackson
Oh my!!! what a wonderful photograph, such gorgeous silky water, lighting and reflections, just beautiful…....
Nickie
Just beautiful ….......
Matthew Stewart
Nice colours dude. What were your calculation steps to get back to the settings you used?
bensound replied
Thanks bud. There might be other methods but the way I was taught was to take a test shot at 3200 with a wide aperture like f4. So this shot was properly exposed with those settings at 8 secs.
So if you want f8 ISO 200. You count the stops to your ‘destination’ settings. So 3200 to 1600 is one stop, 1600 to 800 is two stops, 800 to 400 is three stops, 400 to 200 is four stops.
Now keep adding for the aperture too, f4 to f5.6 is five stops, f5.6 to f8 is six stops.
So now you have six stops difference between the test shot settings and the actual settings you would like to use. So you have to add six stops of light to your shutter speed – 8 secs to 16 secs is one stop, 16 secs to 32 secs is two stops, 32 sec to 1 min (approx) is three stops,
1 mins to 2 mins is four stops, 2 mins to 4 mins is five stops, 4 mins to 8 mins is six stops.
So there you have it, at ISO 200 f8 you need a shutter speed of 8 minutes.
Phew hope that helps, cheers mate !
DebbieSteer
awsome
mlgoren
Awesome work, very pretty!
paolo1955
Magnificent shot
derekenz
Amazing light!!
CaseySmith
Wow Ben this is a great shot, it has that metalic feel about it when you look at the water. Very nice.
Peter Hill
8 minutes for an ND4 and would have been longer at ISO 100. Awesome. did you get many hot pixels? Great composition, Ben, but the lights on the left?
bensound replied
Thanks very much Peter, love your work. I think there was one lone hot pixel somewhere on the rocks which I got rid of in PS, yeah the lights on the left are Redcliffe, a bit distracting there on the edge of the frame I guess.
SteveMG
Cracking result, worth the long wait !