3 Sunset. The City. Slow Shutter Speed.

[bwhip]

Last night I needed to go downtown for a church meeting. Shortly before the meeting, at sunset, I decided to experiment with shooting some long-exposure shots with an ND filter, to capture movement in the cars. Super impressed that the drone was able to stay so stable, as it was a bit windy. Here are a few examples:

 

[MotoSavy]

Well done and I see also a rider. I ride a 2023 Kawasaki Z900 ABS.

 

[SethB]

Nice photos all, I particularly like the first one. There’s a great juxtaposition of the transitory nature of the cars against the enduring nature of the sun.

 

[bwhip]

Thanks! Here's one more with the sun, a bit more prominently.

 

[mavictk]

What shutter speed did you end up with? What ND filter did you use?

 

[bwhip]

What shutter speed did you end up with? What ND filter did you use?

I used the ND32 filter, as it was the darkest I had. I played with a bunch of different shutter speeds, and kept ISO and aperture on auto. ISO generally stayed at 100, and aperture was mostly about f/4 when the sky got darker. It was so nice to be able to preview the images while the drone was still in the air, then quickly make changes to get the amount of motion blur I wanted. I thought I'd need longer exposures, but when I tried that the car blurs were just way too long and indecipherable. The best ones all seemed to be around 0.5 second, with all of these between 0.4 and 1.0 second.

 

[GFields]

Awesome photos!

 

[Spartan Drones]

Last night I needed to go downtown for a church meeting. Shortly before the meeting, at sunset, I decided to experiment with shooting some long-exposure shots with an ND filter, to capture movement in the cars. Super impressed that the drone was able to stay so stable, as it was a bit windy. Here are a few examples:

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Very Nice

 

[Dale D]

Last night I needed to go downtown for a church meeting. Shortly before the meeting, at sunset, I decided to experiment with shooting some long-exposure shots with an ND filter, to capture movement in the cars. Super impressed that the drone was able to stay so stable, as it was a bit windy. Here are a few examples:

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Great images! Congratulations

Dale
Miami

 

[bwhip]

Another from last night, with a different view toward downtown Boise

 

[Dale D]

Another from last night, with a different view toward downtown Boise

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Lovely image- I know it's dusk but I would have tweaked the cyan down a bit. As always, my personal choice only.
Dale