A different camera technique

May 17th, 2009 by Ray Clemmer | Print

n743728545_1861793_2928235This technique requires a tripod and a rainy evening…

Just put the tripod inside your car, open one leg down into the floor board, the other two legs are upon the car seat…the time of day for this shot was around 7:30 pm in May, during a rainstorm..windshield wipers on full blast.  I set the iso to 100,  aperture – f/stop at 25 and let the shutter speed fall where it wants to..this exposure was about 3 -4 seconds…and yes focus is important too, even though the pics are blurry from motion …at f-25 i manually focused not quite on infiniti and let hyper focal distance/depth of field do its thing..the results are unpredictable so shoot a lot of different scenes…the windshield wipers just blurr out of the image from the long exposures.  Shoot at dusk, in the dark or like this shot before dusk..the wet roads make for great reflections…crowded highways – downtown scenes – places like franklin blvd – highway 74 bypass in shelby all make for great experiments with this technique…more of this evenings shots can be seen here —  http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=81411&id=743728545&l=58c9dd7b4e

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