Out in the Morning Light

The street where I live.

I was up early this morning to catch the light while it was still coming from the east to experiment with the neutral density filters I bought the other day. A neutral density filter is like sunglasses for your camera. They cut down the amount of light getting through without affecting colour, allowing - as you see here - longer exposures in bright light. These shots, and some others I will put in a separate post later, are basically tests for some "wilderness" shots (which I'll probably do at Lynn Creek or somewhere else in North Van) I need to shoot for a client next week.

Behind the cut you'll find a more-or-less 1:1 comparison with and without the filters:

The above photo is shot with no filtering and a shutter speed of 1/640th of a second.

Below is basically the same image but a 4 second exposure.