Rolling on the River

Graeme · Jun 14, 2005

Mike,

I like the second of the raft shots. Particularly the composition and the zig-zig of diagonals across the image.

Canoncan · Jun 14, 2005

Nice series Mike. I love the raft shots. I have been lucky enough to visit Kananaskis a couple of times, but not since 91. The scenery in these shots, has me wanting to go back.

dalebe · Jun 14, 2005

awesome shots big mike! love the raft shots, great captures, on the first shots to get the water effect that you have achieved, i know you have to use a slow shutter speed, did you use a ND filter if so which one?

AIRIC · Jun 14, 2005

Sweet!

Eric

Big Mike · Jun 14, 2005

dalebe said:
awesome shots big mike! love the raft shots, great captures, on the first shots to get the water effect that you have achieved, i know you have to use a slow shutter speed, did you use a ND filter if so which one?

Those were shot at F36 and between 0.4 to 0.8 of a second. I didn't even know that that lens could stop down that far.

No, I didn't have a ND filter. I did have a polarizer to cut reflections and give me about one stop less light. I did bring a few other filters that I wanted to use but I didn't bring the right size of adapter ring for my Cokin filter holder. I would have liked to slow the shutter down even more to accentuate the water effect...I tried as much as I could but those shots were blown right out.

dalebe · Jun 14, 2005

Thanks for that big mike, only the reason why i asked is that i really like that effect, and i have'nt got a ND filter for reducing light,i just wanted to get whatever you used on that shot, so i might just go for a 0.45 and a 0.6 ND, but i do happen to have a polariser, which i have always just used for cutting out reflections and intensifying contrast, so i will give your method a try, thanks again for sharing.