Saturation

Guscat

Hello all,

I have a Cannon 350D and when I leave the shutter open for a few seconds during the day to allow people to pass while one person is standing still the shot always comes out saturated with light.

Can anyone tell me how I can get this image by lowering the brightness levels or whatever?

Thanks,

Roen

Set your aperture as small as it'll go (ƒ22) and stick your ISO as low as it'll go.
If your pics are still a mess of light then you'll have to shell out on a ND filter.

leinsterman

I'm not trying to be smart ... but do you understand the use of the metering function on the 350d ?

If not then here is a simple tutorial -

http://www.photozone.de/4Technique/metering.htm

Metering is important ... For a shot like that in daylight you will almost certainly need to meter very carefully ... and longer exposures can prove tricky in broad daylight without the use of an ND filter ...

you could try the shot at sunset just as it is getting dark ... there will still be some daylight giving general lighting ... but not quite as much as in the middle of the day ... this may give you longer exposures ...

B0rG

shoot in raw you can easily get a couple of stops there as well

Dimy

A shutterspeed of a few seconds during the day?! What do you expect? :eek: But yeah try some of the advice above... it's doable I suppose on the smallest aperture + ND grad filter + RAW mode, but never tried such a thing myself!

elven

If you have a polariser, stick that on as well to cut some light. There's a balance to be had between shutter speed and aperture and if you've gone to the smallest aperture, you'll get the longest shutter speed without blowing out your highlights.

tab126

Nope - not on that camera. The other day, I was using a polarizer, f22, and ISO 100 (overcast conditions, about 2pm) and still could only get 1/5 of a second for the exposure to be right. (I was looking for 1/2 or 1"). You'll need to get a heavy ND or stack a few.