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Title: iceland - photo
Post by: inkydigit on January 17, 2012, 09:51:28 AM
http://icelandaurora.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/MagicCloth.jpg (http://icelandaurora.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/MagicCloth.jpg)
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Title: Re: iceland - photo
Post by: rcallicotte on January 17, 2012, 01:35:52 PM
Well done...in an artsy way.  Looks like some smoothing in Photoshop or do you know?
Title: Re: iceland - photo
Post by: Tangled-Universe on January 17, 2012, 02:08:11 PM
I'd tend to say it's a long exposure.
Title: Re: iceland - photo
Post by: inkydigit on January 17, 2012, 03:10:27 PM
http://icelandaurora.com/blog/2010/07/ (http://icelandaurora.com/blog/2010/07/)
interesting technique!
Title: Re: iceland - photo
Post by: rcallicotte on January 18, 2012, 09:17:12 AM
Filters?  Who would have guessed?  Thanks.
Title: Re: iceland - photo
Post by: Tangled-Universe on January 18, 2012, 10:13:52 AM
The filter made it possible to get this result in one exposure, normally you can achieve similar results by merging different exposures into a HDR format.
Filters make this a lot more straight-forward, but logically limit you in composition, since the gradient of the filter is fixed.

As I mentioned before the "smoothing" is because of the prolonged exposure.

So if you ever plan to take a picture of an empty Times Square then place your camera on a tripod and expose for 2 minutes or so ;)
I did the same for the boulevard in Shanghai, but my Canon G11 only allowed for 15sec. max exposure time, still a lot of moving people disappeared from the final image :) See my Facebook for the results.
Title: Re: iceland - photo
Post by: dandelO on January 20, 2012, 11:51:30 PM
http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=13835.0
Title: Re: iceland - photo
Post by: inkydigit on January 21, 2012, 08:53:06 AM
Quote from: dandelO on January 20, 2012, 11:51:30 PM
http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=13835.0
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