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Morning all,
I spent a day in Portsmouth on Saturday wandering around taking anything that interested me.
Although a pretty bog standard subject matter, I wanted to take a shot of the pier using my newly acquired Lee Stoppers, just to get a feel for them.
I'd done all the obligatory youtube viewing and did as per below:
Took test shot to get settings
Set ISO to 100, aperture to f/11 (Canon 5DmkIII with Canon 16-35mm f/4L lens)
At 1/60th, se that into the Lee Filters app choosing the correct stopper and got a 15 second setting.
Put the stopper in place
Set lens to manual
Set 2 second timer
Covered the eye piece
Took the shot
This image then came out very, very dark, which surprised me.
I then changed to 30 seconds, and this image came out dark as well, but not as bad as the other.
I didn't pursue this anymore as I thought I must be doing something wrong, but just didn't know what.
The conditions were quite grey and bland and there may have been some mist around (although I didn't see it), but the processed image was not crisp at all, there just seemed lots of grain or noise in it.
I've nowhere to host the raw file for anyone to look at and I can put the processed image on Flickr later, but wondered if there is anything glaringly obvious, that i've missed.
Would a grey day only offer grainy images at that shutter speed?
Am I expecting too much?
Thanks all for reading (if you are still awake).
I spent a day in Portsmouth on Saturday wandering around taking anything that interested me.
Although a pretty bog standard subject matter, I wanted to take a shot of the pier using my newly acquired Lee Stoppers, just to get a feel for them.
I'd done all the obligatory youtube viewing and did as per below:
Took test shot to get settings
Set ISO to 100, aperture to f/11 (Canon 5DmkIII with Canon 16-35mm f/4L lens)
At 1/60th, se that into the Lee Filters app choosing the correct stopper and got a 15 second setting.
Put the stopper in place
Set lens to manual
Set 2 second timer
Covered the eye piece
Took the shot
This image then came out very, very dark, which surprised me.
I then changed to 30 seconds, and this image came out dark as well, but not as bad as the other.
I didn't pursue this anymore as I thought I must be doing something wrong, but just didn't know what.
The conditions were quite grey and bland and there may have been some mist around (although I didn't see it), but the processed image was not crisp at all, there just seemed lots of grain or noise in it.
I've nowhere to host the raw file for anyone to look at and I can put the processed image on Flickr later, but wondered if there is anything glaringly obvious, that i've missed.
Would a grey day only offer grainy images at that shutter speed?
Am I expecting too much?
Thanks all for reading (if you are still awake).
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