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Shooting a series of waterfall images with multiple neutral-density (ND) filters

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Shooting a series of waterfall images with multiple neutral-density (ND) filters

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- The sun has dropped below the horizon. We've got nice, even light throughout the canyon. It's still a little bright in the sky, but I want to get to work because the waterfall and the canyon are perfect right now. I want to get a silky, smooth look on the waterfall. Now, if I check my exposure, at F8, ISO 100, it's a tenth of a second. That's much too fast. That's not going to give me the look that I want. Now, I can take the ISO down to 50 or low, so I'm going to do that. So that's going to give me a fifth of a second. Again, not quite slow enough. Let's introduce the neutral density filter. Now, initially I thought I might use a 10-stop when I came up here, but it's dark enough. I don't think I need that much. Ok, now I've had great experience here with a 10-stop in previous trips, but here I think I'm going to go to my 3-stop, and this is why I carry a 3-stop, a 5-stop, and a 10-stop. I always want to be ready. Now a 3-stop is not too dark, so I can still focus and meter through…

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