Photographing The Missouri River
Today my son and I headed into the outdoors to take some photographs (and hopefully learn some new photography techniques). I was shooting my photos with a Canon 80D DSLR. The first photos were taken with automatic settings and no filters. Below is one of the pictures that resulted from these shots.
Having never attempted long exposure photography I decided to give it a try. Because I was wanting to experiment with my camera, I decided to attempt taking these photos in bulb mode with a 10 stop ND filter and an intervalometer. I set my camera to f22 with an ISO of 100. The exposure was around 30 seconds. Below is one of the images I came up with using this method.
I think this was a decent photo considering I have minimal experience with this technique. The black and white image was an afterthought and I finished the photo with a bit of post processing in Canon's Digital Photo Professional 4. Smoothing out the rushing water of the Missouri River was my main objective when I took this shot.
My goal is to learn something every time I take take a photo, and this trip to the river didn't let me down.
- Never leave home without your camera...You never know what you'll miss!