Oh Crap....

Location, barren river lake spillway.
Well, it is tough to focus on fast moving birds. I had an 'Oh Crap' moment while I was there. Maybe more details later.

It was pretty dreary out. These shots are ISO 1600 and still the shutter speeds were pretty low. I should have bumped the ISO up a bit for a few shots. Noisy shots are better than blurry shots.

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Saturday night, I was waiting to go dinner with some friends, so I kicked around downtown BG again. Not much worth talking about, however I am including one shot from the Railpark. Just about the time I walked to the Railpark, my friends called, so I had to cut it short. I plan to go back sometime with a nice sky. I darkened this shot to blacken out the sky (and a lot of the train), also converted to greysacle. This is a 30 second shot - the original was about one stop below a normal exposure.

Muddy Moving Water

Stopped by Rochester Ky (Green River) on the way home from Owensboro. These are long exposure shots, some with the nd1000 filter. The water was up, muddy, and running fast. The golden color of the river is from the muddy look of the water.

I am getting cloud streaking on the 2 minute exposures. It just happened that the clouds were moving away from the camera very slowly. The cloud patterns were intersting with alternating blue and whitish horizontal bands. I now realize I don't have to catch fast moving clouds to get streaking, just leave the shutter open long enough. Duh.


2 Minute Exposure, ND1000 Filter


2 Minute Exposure, ND1000 Filter


2 Minute Exposure, ND1000 Filter


4 Second Exposure, No Filter

'Fast Moving Clouds' or 'Cloudy Cemeteries'

I went out this morning to feed the dogs, and the clouds were really low and whipping by. I grabbed the camera, tripod, and the 10x ND filter and walked over to the nearby cemetery. I think for the speed of the clouds, 30 seconds was a little long, but with the nd filter and it being morning, I needed the 30 seconds. I should have tried just stopping down to f22 to see what I could get.

Nothing spectacular, but it was fun. These are 30 second shots with the 10 stop neutral density filter. I was too lazy to compose with the filter off, then put it on, so it was pretty much work in the dark (I could see a little), fire, look at the results. (The 10x ND filter is similar to looking through a welding mask.)

The cross shots are in the St Anthony Cemetery in Grayson County Ky that evening. The clouds were still moving fairly fast, but it was getting dark and I did not use the nd filter. These exposure times were from 6 to 10 seconds. These could have used more time.

Note that the evening shots are before the morning shots.

St Anthony Cemetary Peonia Ky

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Bowling Green Ky