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    April 10, 2026, 8:55 a.m.
  • Members 1995 posts
    April 10, 2026, 9 a.m.

    Sometimes you need a tripod and an ND filter

    I didn’t have either with me last weekend and don’t usually carry them. Even so I tried to take a shot of this “intimate landscape” at the little local stream.
    A beaver had recently dammed the stream and just upstream from the dam the water was deeper, moving slower and swirling around. I thought I might try a longer exposure to show those spirals. But, even at the lowest ISO and highest F number, in these bright conditions, I could only get a shutter speed of just over 1 second; which was too short to really bring out the spirals.
    I did my best at hand holding using a branch to help stabilize the camera, but an ND filter and a tripod would have made this photo better.

    You can, at least, see here the potential of a "perhaps interesting photo" that could have been made with a longer exposure time 😉

    DSC_2723 smaller.JPG

    DSC_2723 smaller.JPG

    JPG, 2.9 MB, uploaded by Fireplace33 on April 10, 2026.