Wind turbines in the hills near Burnley on a very windy day a few weeks ago.
Photographed with my camera on a tripod and with a 6 stop ND filter on the lens to allow a slow enough shutter speed to show some sense of movement in the turbine blades.
I did try photographing these turbines using even slower shutter speeds but at anything less than about 1/8th or 1/4 of a second the blades vanish completely from the resulting photo leaving just a bare post.
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@Bhavin: Yes, we are getting increasing numbers of these in the UK, especially the off-shore variety. How about Canada?
@Marie LC: Thanks Marie!
@Mike: odd that isn't it as the two lots of settings are still 2 stops apart when you make allowance for the 6 stop nd filter that I was using!
On my old Nikon D40 and I think this new camera the recommendation is to stick to iso 200 as the normal low iso setting. Do you routinely use iso 100 on your Canon camera or was it just that day so you could get the shutter speed you wanted?
@Richard: Thanks Richard....I didn't know that about the speed of the blade tips.
@Mike: Certainly with a lot of the Nikon cameras you don't actually gain anything in terms of image quality by going lower than iso 200. Noise is no better and dynamic range can even be worse at iso 100. Each camera is different though and it may be that peak performance on your Canon is at iso 100.
On the Nikon D700 they discourage you from using anything lower than iso 200 by calling the settings "Low-1" etc. which is the equivalent of iso 100.
The big advantage of using iso 200 as a base iso is that you effectively gain a stop in shutter speed when compared to cameras that operate with iso 100 as their optimum base sensitivity.
@MK: Thanks!
@Scene by Sharon Photography: Thanks Sharon!
NIKON D700
1/15 second
F/5.6
ISO 400
15 mm (35mm equiv.)