Today’s Bacon | Michael Ejercito
by Joe
“This photograph was taken during a wonderful week of vacation to Belize with my family recently
We stayed on Ambergris Caye which is a very small island off the coast of Belize. I didn’t get as much sleep as I wanted during the vacation because I was up before dawn taking pictures, but it was certainly worth it! This was taken on the last day of our trip. After a week of trial and error, I was happy to finally able to correct all the little mistakes that I had done earlier in the week and come up with this photo. I used my new Canon 5D Mark II camera along with a Canon 16-35mm lens. This was taken with a 3-stop neutral density filter to allow me to get the waterblur. In addition, I used a 3-stop soft edge GND filter to prevent the sky from being overexposed.”
Exposure: 13 seconds
Aperture: f/22
Focal length: 17mm
ISO 100
A neutral density filter is sort of like a sunglass for you lens. It limits the amount of light entering the lens which in turn allows you to slow down your shutter speed in bright, daylight situations.
Notice also how Michael closed his aperture down to f/22 further limiting the amount of light that is able to enter the lens. Also, ISO 100 means that the ISO was as low as possible. See how the water is smooth and the clouds have motion blur? That can give you a sense of how long the exposure was.
Here is a little bacon bonus for you (oh yes, I did just coin a new term). Here are the technical details:
Exposure: 1 second
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 100
Michael, again by limiting the amount of light entering the lens, was able to blur the moving water.
Thanks Michael for reminding me about filters and using long exposures even in the day. I think you may have inspired me to write a post on using motion in photography for this Thursday’s post.
Tags: 3-stop soft edge GND filter, Canon, Canon 16-35mm, Canon 5d Mark II, GDN filter
