Serendipity Sunday...Slowing Down Fast Moving Water
Today I had some time to play with my new camera. For those of you that haven't been following the story, several Active Rain members have gotten a Canon SX50. This camera has some amazing features like the 1200mm zoom. The picture quality is excellent, too.
Water shots were my objective today, and learning to use the shutter and aperture priority feature. I accomplished both.
I took Lucky with me, and we walked the Surface Creek Trail. This was also an opportunity for me to work on Lucky's sit/stay commands. He's doing pretty well, but my photography skills are advancing a bit quicker than he is with staying.
In the first picture you see how any camera would see this shot in automatic mode. I wanted to give the fast moving water the appearance of a smooth flowing water.
I put the camera in shutter priority mode and played around with the shutter speed until I got my desired effect. You can see how smooth looking the water is. This is exactly what I was going for. A slower shutter speed gives you this effect. This is really neat to do with waterfall shots, too.
As I was heading back home I saw this photo opportunity and couldn't resist stopping. Roy Kelley this final picture is for you.
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