The key to taking shots with blurred blades is taking control of the shutter speed on your camera. This is done by selecting shutter priority or the TV setting (Time Value).
Having done this the best way to be sure of a result is to then vary your shutter speed, lets say by starting at 1/250th of a second and then slowing down to 1/125th and speeding up to 1/500th.
In photographic terms this is known as bracketing and will give you varying degrees of blade blur.
Bear in mind that when zooming in on a subject with a long zoom, this will exaggerate any movement of your camera and may result in the whole image appearing blurred if the shutter is set too slow.
The use of a tripod will correct this.
Happy shootin' !
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Re: Photography Tips
It's a perfect opportunity to do some night photography out at work as there is no light pollution out here in the sticks. It's nothing to do with helicopters but you can imagine it would look pretty cool with a helicopter in the foreground instead of a tree!
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Created from 40 separate 3min images
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Nice shot CH
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i see shooting stars, hundreds of them...
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SuperF wrote:i see shooting stars, hundreds of them...
Never mind it'll pass!
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i guess the pounding in the head will pass too? what about the
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Wow! What a beautiful shot mate
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Hey Hollywood could you please share the settings you used for that shot? My attempts don't seem to come out that good.
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You might say that yours don't look like mine, but you've probably taken a good photo, you just need to 'create' the final result.
The settings were...
ISO - 3200 (Possibly a tad high)
Exposure - 30sec.
Aperture - f4.0
White balance - Left it on auto by mistake! (Hence the brown hue in the original image)
There is a fair bit of post processing in Camera RAW and Photoshop to produce that final image.
Here is the original shot next to the final result!
The settings were...
ISO - 3200 (Possibly a tad high)
Exposure - 30sec.
Aperture - f4.0
White balance - Left it on auto by mistake! (Hence the brown hue in the original image)
There is a fair bit of post processing in Camera RAW and Photoshop to produce that final image.
Here is the original shot next to the final result!
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