Thread: Getting smooth water without tripod or ND filters.

I really like the smooth water effect you can get with a long exposure, but since it usually requires both a tripod and ND filter I tried this alternative approach with my RX100.

I shot a series of frames with the moving water at normal exposure (1/50s - f3.2 - ISO125 in this case) and used Photo Acute to merge them.
I'm sure Photoshop and other programs can do much the same, but since I have Photo Acute and it's quite decent at lining up the shots that's what I used.

Here's an animated gif showing in the individual frames


And here's the resulting merged image


I'm pretty happy with it as is, but had I used a slower shutter speed and shot more frames the result would have been better.

Really cool idea!

Agreed! Nice thinking!

That's a great idea! I love the gif too! that looks awesome!

Nice idea, I have got to try this...

Gary

Good idea, impressive...

Well done.

How many shots did you take to make this?

Originally Posted by thekeddi

How many shots did you take to make this?

This was from 6 shots. For future attempts I'll probably go higher, the 10fps continuous mode of the RX100 really makes it easy.