Running Water
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Was testing out the manual mode on my camera just now cuz I was so bored. If there’s one thing I’m not good at with my camera, it’s the manual settings! Oh and also taking pics of water. So difficult lah!
So anyway, what did I do?
I went to the sink, changed my settings to ISO 100, contrast to auto, image sharpening to +2, saturation to +1, white balance to auto, flash exposure to -2.0, macro, 1/1000, f3.0.
I didn’t bounce the flash, though..
And no extra editing, just resized it.
And the result? The above pic lah.
So hard to take water pics! Especially water like running water and ocean waves! Anybody got any tips??
JACQ | photography | 02 13th, 2008 |
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nice try..
taking a photo on water not so difficult as you think. one has to play with the shuttle speed and flash strength. The faster the shuttle speed the more freeze and sharp image you will get but the darker the subject is. so to compensate the dark light, flash has to be adjusted to more stronger until you get the ideal setting.
jollence is the master of photographing sea waves and water fall. he took lots of slow shuttle speed that gives a movement effect and smoke effect to the water flow. so, slower speed means less strength flash or might not necessary. one has to remember that tripod is important to take a slow shuttle speed.
so, happy photographing! ^_^
True. Swith your cam to Shutter Priority and mess around with the shutter speed. Adjust it to either a slower or faster speed than the normal. A faster speed will result in the water (action) being frozen, and slower speed will result the water to look blurred.
1/30 or 1/15 is good enough for the blur effect. Remember to use a tripod too!
Take some pics and post them up ya?