March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 46m
English

The key to taking long exposures during daylight hours (when your camera wants to use a very short shutter speed) is to make your camera keep your shutter open longer than it thinks it should to make a proper exposure. We do this by putting a really dark filter—a neutral density filter (ND filter, for short; we looked at these in Chapter 1)—over our lens. They come in different darkness amounts, from a 1-stop filter (that just makes your exposure 1 stop darker, so as you might imagine, 1-stop filters aren’t very popular) up to 12- to 15-stop filters (I’ve never used one darker than 15. Heck, I don’t even ...
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