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A long exposure photo of this early victorian era hotel on the sea front at Fleetwood in NW England.
It was designed by the wonderfully named architect "Decimus Burton"
Like what you see here and are interested in photographic composition?.....the blog section of my website now has a complete set of 5 articles covering my personal approach to the subject: Ian Bramham Photography - Blog
For purchasing high quality archival prints of any of these photos you can send me an email by clicking here or by going to my website Ian Bramham - Fine Art Photography where prices are listed in the gallery sections under each individual photo.
@Richard: Thanks Richard!
@Marie LC: I bet that Fleetwood doesn't see many tourists from France Marie!.....did you have a good time on the NW coast?
@Andrew: Thanks for that Andrew!
@KimberlyC: Hi Kim!....how have you been keeping?!
I really love the D700 and it is a much more versatile camera than my old D40. It is great for long exposures as well as portraits, landscapes, fast action - everything I coud want reallly. The weather sealing is particularly useful for landscape photography as the best opportunities often come when the weather is changeable and it's good to be able to carry on photographing even when it is raining!
@Jason Kravitz: Hi Jason - For this photo here I used a toatal of 16 stops of neutral density filters.
There was a combination of a Lee 10 stop 'Big Stopper', which is a square slot-in filter which fits Lee's standard filter holder, it was placed over the top of a 6 stop circular nd filter made by a German company called 'B+W'.
The Lee 10 stop is a fairly recent addittion to my kit and has replaced my old B+W 10 stop as it has a better colour rendition. The Lee gives a cool blue colour cast which is easier to deal with than the brownish colour cast of the B+W 10 stop.
Generally speaking the 6 stop is okay on its own for things like waterfalls where you may want a shutter speed of about 1/4 of a second but if you want to blur cloud movement you need a shutter speed of at least 30 seconds which is usually when I stack the 6 and the 10 stops together - the downside is that it can lead to vignetting on a wide angle lens.
@Jason Kravitz: No problem Jason....I'm pleased the info was helpful. There's a few tutorials on using these nd filters on the 'Articles' section of my website if you are interested: http://www.ianbramham.com/section255881.html
NIKON D700
241/2 second
F/8.0
ISO 200
17 mm (35mm equiv.)
