10 Stop Filters – All the Rage!

I’ve got one, have you?

Well no landscape or architecture photographer worth their salt goes out without one these days do they ? 😉

It is the current fad – that surreal sky, those misty sea shores… you simply have to use them…

They are genuinely interesting to use, and I have on occasion used one commercially to make “people disappear” from photos.

So looking back at this photo of Clarence Dock, which it was called then, I wondered what it would have looked like with a 10-stopper.

Photoshop Stuff…

So here’s a very quick, purposely quick and dirty, way you can do the blurred sky thing.

It just uses…

Simple stuff really – as you’ll see when you watch it 🙂

Ten out of ten to Eva Pitt, who mentioned that the water should look different if it was a long exposure.

Well the main reason for it not being smooth in this instance is time – the video was supposed to be 2 minutes, it went on to 4… didn’t have time
having a smooth sky and choppy water is confusing – and confusion is a good thing, ask any NLP master
If you’ve understood the theory of how to do the sky, you could apply it to the water – so that part would be superfluous.