Newbie Question

[WozzaTT]

Hi,

How do I take shots of a fast moving river? I'd like to be able to take one showing the water 'frozen' (as it were!) and one of the water moving ie blurred effect. I'm guessing different shutter speeds?

Apologies for the lack of technical terminology!

 

[Motogp]

It's all in the shutter speed , increase to get the frozen look and decrease to get the water to blur .
Remember to use a tripod as any any movement will affect the shot .

 

[lawrie29]

It is all to do with shutter speed. A fast shutter speed will freeze the action, and a slow one will blurr it, so the river gets the foggy look.

I would experiment with speeds when at the river.

If you put your kit into you kit bag on here, then people can see what camera you have and offer more specific advice.

 

[fracster]

For the milky effect.

Use a tripod and preferably a shutter remote release, if the release is not available use the timer on the camera.Set the ISO at the lowest,put the camera in aperture priority and adjust the aperture to say F11, this should slow your shutter speed down enough to get the milky effect.If the light is bright,you may have to use a filter to slow the shutter even more.

Just one way, you can use shutter priority or full manual,but I have typed enough........

 

[WozzaTT]

Quality! Thanks for the replies

Now got to decide whether I need to venture out or see if I can get decent shots from the house (river is at the bottom of the garden).

Will update my profile with the kit I've got.

 

[fracster]

Quality! Thanks for the replies

Now got to decide whether I need to venture out or see if I can get decent shots from the house (river is at the bottom of the garden).

Will update my profile with the kit I've got.

My advice.

Go out,set the camera up on a tripod and use different aperture and shutter speeds to take the exact same scene.Bring them home and look at how the differing settings effect the image on your PC.I found that a good way to learn.