It really shows you how awesome a good ND filter is: way quicker, less chances of problems with alligning layers and during blending and less chromatic aberration because you don't have to shoot at f22.. Both B&W and color are awesome.
Diffraction and other image issues about shooting at f22 aint that much of a problem when you blend so many images together. You aint looking for sharpness. I still own NDs so I aint cheering for any team here. But that was the point.
The technique of blending is really docile! The two pictures namely the color and the b&w, evoke different responses to me! The color photograph of the boat wreck with the sky gives me a sense of emptiness & helplessness of not just a boat wreck but it feels a loneliness of missing life and I strive to listen to the hustle bustle of life despite all the beauty I'd like to share with the one's I'm missing when I stare at this color picture! On the contrary, the b&w picture is far more compelling and evokes a fearful immediate response of the boat wreck and I felt, I wanted to flee from the boat wreck because it's a place of accident and long abandoned by life and none visited before me after the boat wreck and I feel frightened for being alone in the landscape and every element trying to engulf my person, so I feel I'd leave the place the sooner the best! The smoothness of water and blending of the sky with it enhanced the feeling of fright! Thank you presenting two incredible pictures of the same scene!
OMG, STACKING is the answer. I have been looking for certain functions and ideas for years now and never figured it out until just now. Thank you so much for this video. Keep up the good work!!!
There is a shortcut. If you use file-->scripts-->statistics, you get a dialog box that prompts you to load your images, select your statistic (e.g. median) from a list and then Photoshop produces the same results as in the video. If you tick off the box "align layers", you can overcome any issues with your tripod shifting. You'll have to crop the image a little bit afterwards.
@@MadsPeterIversen Yes, it works exactly the same way as in your video - just an easier way to launch the process. It requires a computer with a good graphics card, at least 32 GB of memory and a decent CPU.
Love the way that you describe both!! Helps me understand the process even better. The way that you teach photography makes me feel that I am there with you (although probably a little warmer from the comfort of my home.) Your videos are so inspiring!!
Wooo woo wooo amazing I have not got a ND filter yet and wanna take some long exposure tomorrow this is amazing thankyou so much for sharing brilliant the colour one is my favourite really really nicely done brilliant amazing image and thanks so much for that info
Thank you! The technique works perfectly in Photopea. I've actually thought about this for a while now and had no idea it was such a good idea that the industry had already integrated it into popular software. I'm still new to pro photography.
Awesome tip, I'll definitely try this soon! I also have a tip - if you don't care about having a BW long exposure photo, you can use a welding glass as a makeshift filter. I had some pretty good results when I tried that.
Remember seeing this method in one of Tony Northrup's video... It's amazing, I used to go around shooting long Exposure photos on my phone because didn't have a professional setup before
Thank you so much for this! I often find myself in situations where I wish I had an ND filter and neglected to bring one, or I don’t have one for the lens I’m using. I also like your method of compositing in sharp elements taken at a larger aperture, to avoid the effects of diffraction. I will definitely be using this technique in the future. Well done!
Love using median stacking - it's also useful for getting rid of transients in a series of shots (like people walking passed a building or vehicles in a road) - btw I preferred the b&w - very moody!
What a timing with this video! Just last week I went out and forgot my filters. But I put down my camera on a tripod in a couple of compositions to try to catch some nice waves, and shot in bursts. I didn't get spectacular waves that way -- my camera wasn't low enough. But I did get several series of images that are perfect practice for this techniques. Playing with different stacking methods I get some nice different effects, such as ghostly mists around some of the rocks in the water. Thanks!
I loved the black and white image, it reminded me to look back on a recent image I took in the blue hour. I'm going to try the black and white to see how it turns out. Stay safe
Thats a nice idea. So you take one sharp photo with f/11 or so, to avoid diffraction make your photo soft, and then you are closing the aperture all the way down using f22 because you don't care about the water becoming soft and so you are simulating a long exposure by stacking multiple photos!!! Great.
Used the stacking multiple images technique for a while. I started doing it because I can't afford to be buying filters. I actually posted a little video on my Instagram about it about a month or so ago. Definitely handy when you are not carrying filters around with you
Fantastic video as always Mads! I gotta go with the Black and White landscape mode shot, but I love all three shots. Actually learned a bunch, had no idea you could stack exposures like this to completely smooth out water. Keep up the great work!
@@MadsPeterIversen oh I totally agree, it’s a cool option for sure. That boat is cool and looks great in the photos! Ha ha, loved the little wave hop. 😛
B&W vertical but with the two rocks in foreground. The rocks serve as the perfect framing and leading eye into the boat as well as the perfect metaphor or symbolism of ships running aground (onto rocks)
Wow, I've never thought this could also work to create long exposures when there's too much light and you don't have an ND filter! Only though it's useful to remove people from shots. Much appreciated, learned a very useful skill as a landscape/nature photographer today!
I've never understood why this technique isn't more popular with high quality automatic stacking so easy now, since it produces lower noise images that also have less chance of thermal sensor artefacts. Nice tutorial Mads.
Hey Mads, many thanks for this one! I am this "always forgets his filters dude" and wish I had known this before! 🙃 it is also useful for my 14 mm which isn't capable of being combined with filters. Thank you again!
Thank you for this. I have avoided using lenses that don't filter well, (like your Sony 12-24). With this awesome technique I can now use my bulbous wide primes for long exposure work! You're a genius!
You shared some great information, but I will stick to using a 10 stop filter due to the ease of use, quicker process, and less memory requirements on my SD card.
Thanks, a very nice trick to solve when forgetting to bring the filters! Used to stacking and masking to compensate for the dynamic range of my camera which is not really the best
Hi Mads. Once again a very instructive tutorial. Your enthusiasm for what you do is inspirational. Thank you for the time and effort you put into these videos.
Interesting.. Would it be possible to pull this off for video too? like have the exact sale angle 2 times but at different time of day.. Wonder what a median of multiple shots would look like at 25 fps!
All are so beautiful. If I had to choose a favorite edit, I think it would be your vertical B+W. I would have been tempted to lighten the water, at first. But, I agree with the darker contrast, and stand corrected! Thank you, so much!
Thanks Mads, really useful video. I would have loved it if you had spent more time on your post production process. I’m going to look up Resterising. Beautiful photograph. Thanks again
B&W was my favorite. My a7RIII (and 100-400GM) got destroyed when my tripod was knocked over this past weekend, so I am living vicariously through videos like this until my a7RIV arrives.
Thankyou very useful my self I have a theoretically 8-2000 (3-11 stop) but in reality i personally find it good only until -7stops, I think i will try this technique maybe with my filter so a -7 stops filter may look like a -15 stops filter and I may be able to shoot also in daylight. Have a nice day, just inscribed myself, Max
yep, I've actually always preferred to do it like this as this also gives the best possible image. Similar to 'lucky imaging', especially for scenes that might get crossed by planes, boats, cars satellites, people, etc. this gives the freedom to hand pick or mask single frames. In high wind this can be vital too! It also eliminates orders of magnitude of noise giving the stack much greater dynamic range when exposing for the highlights and color resolution stretching beyond 14 bit depending on your chosen color space... 16bit/channel or 32bit/channel. Last but not least with this, one gets an accurate exposure preview QUICKLY... also huge benefit. While I do wish my R5 had the build in on the fly stacking ability, I don't mind the processing. Part of the fun. Then again, I've stacked millions of telescope images and I've written my own python script to do it for me...
oh and plus one doesn't have to have many filters and/or adapters. The only place where those are needed are movies, and if I want open aperture but everything is too bright for the lowest ISO and shortest exposure time... rare, but it happens. Since I usually don't carry around filters, my loss. Nice about the Sonys (I have Canon stuff) is that they now offer much shorter exposure times, I think the A1 goes to 1/32000th of a second! nice
I loved the video. Great tips. And I actually liked the horizontal B&W. I felt it gave the image more character. Love your channel. Have been a subscriber for about a year. Always great tips and advice. Thanks for doing this.
It really shows you how awesome a good ND filter is: way quicker, less chances of problems with alligning layers and during blending and less chromatic aberration because you don't have to shoot at f22.. Both B&W and color are awesome.
I also thought this at the end of the video but its a fascinating process to watch and now I apricate the filter even more.
Also immediate results with ND filter
Diffraction and other image issues about shooting at f22 aint that much of a problem when you blend so many images together. You aint looking for sharpness.
I still own NDs so I aint cheering for any team here. But that was the point.
The technique of blending is really docile! The two pictures namely the color and the b&w, evoke different responses to me! The color photograph of the boat wreck with the sky gives me a sense of emptiness & helplessness of not just a boat wreck but it feels a loneliness of missing life and I strive to listen to the hustle bustle of life despite all the beauty I'd like to share with the one's I'm missing when I stare at this color picture! On the contrary, the b&w picture is far more compelling and evokes a fearful immediate response of the boat wreck and I felt, I wanted to flee from the boat wreck because it's a place of accident and long abandoned by life and none visited before me after the boat wreck and I feel frightened for being alone in the landscape and every element trying to engulf my person, so I feel I'd leave the place the sooner the best! The smoothness of water and blending of the sky with it enhanced the feeling of fright! Thank you presenting two incredible pictures of the same scene!
Thank you for this tip😃. I didn't know it but I will definitely use it.
OMG, STACKING is the answer. I have been looking for certain functions and ideas for years now and never figured it out until just now. Thank you so much for this video. Keep up the good work!!!
You are so very welcome, Eric! :)
Tycker mest om den med färger! Sedan måste jag passa på att tacka för alla dessa fantastiska videos du gör, så lärorika och inspirerande! Tack!!
Black and white in portrait orientation is so beautiful.
Useful tips using your tripod in the sea, thanks!
Love all the photos, but the black and white to me are absolutely stunning.
the vertical black and white image is gorgeous
There is a shortcut. If you use file-->scripts-->statistics, you get a dialog box that prompts you to load your images, select your statistic (e.g. median) from a list and then Photoshop produces the same results as in the video. If you tick off the box "align layers", you can overcome any issues with your tripod shifting. You'll have to crop the image a little bit afterwards.
Very true, but I guess you'll still need to take your processing power into consideration?
@@MadsPeterIversen Yes, it works exactly the same way as in your video - just an easier way to launch the process. It requires a computer with a good graphics card, at least 32 GB of memory and a decent CPU.
I liked them both - the colour shot has beauty, while the black and white has `mood`.
Love the way that you describe both!! Helps me understand the process even better. The way that you teach photography makes me feel that I am there with you (although probably a little warmer from the comfort of my home.) Your videos are so inspiring!!
Wooo woo wooo amazing I have not got a ND filter yet and wanna take some long exposure tomorrow this is amazing thankyou so much for sharing brilliant the colour one is my favourite really really nicely done brilliant amazing image and thanks so much for that info
I liked the black and white. I was at the beach today with this very problem thanks for the tip.
Great work my friend !! Really liked the foreground stones in the image ..
Thank you! The technique works perfectly in Photopea. I've actually thought about this for a while now and had no idea it was such a good idea that the industry had already integrated it into popular software. I'm still new to pro photography.
Mads, thank you! Great tip. And very awesome picture!
Very cool and ingenious process. I liked them all.
Awesome tip, I'll definitely try this soon!
I also have a tip - if you don't care about having a BW long exposure photo, you can use a welding glass as a makeshift filter. I had some pretty good results when I tried that.
Perfect workaround when I forget the filters or just dont have one for the particular lens in use!
Awesome tip and thanks for the detailed explanation start to finish. I like the black and white, landscape orientation.
You made it sound easy well done. I did this many years ago its very cool to see it finished
Black and white for sure. Thanks for the video. Very helpful.
One of the rare occasions as a landscape photographer we are happy to see cloudless skies when shooting minimal long exposure images.
Remember seeing this method in one of Tony Northrup's video... It's amazing, I used to go around shooting long Exposure photos on my phone because didn't have a professional setup before
The B&W is my favourite. Thanks for the editing tips.
I leaned a lot Mads! I think I will haul my big filters with me....But I appreciated learning how to blur the water without them! Loved the B/w best!
Just phenomenal! The b&w turned out exceptionally. Well done!!!
Thank you so much for this! I often find myself in situations where I wish I had an ND filter and neglected to bring one, or I don’t have one for the lens I’m using. I also like your method of compositing in sharp elements taken at a larger aperture, to avoid the effects of diffraction. I will definitely be using this technique in the future. Well done!
Thank you Mads! Great and informative video. I like the B&W best.
If you take multiple exposures of a building (for example) and it has lots of people in, use that median technique too, it does a decent job
Yes exactly, I once used it to remove a lot of tourists in the St Mark's Square :)
I once used hi ND filter at the middle of a day, about 30s exposure. All moving people dissapeared
I loved the black and white ones they were just amazing🖤👌
Love using median stacking - it's also useful for getting rid of transients in a series of shots (like people walking passed a building or vehicles in a road) - btw I preferred the b&w - very moody!
Learnt some new PS techniques. I liked the BW image. Thanks
Hi Mads, each of the pictures have his own charme. But for me, the black and white composition looks more beautiful. Thanks for the video.
Very useful information and explanation. Thank you. Difficult for me to decide which image I like best, but I do like them.
Great video, makes me happy though that I have neutral density filters. I agree with the black and white photo, very nice.
What a timing with this video!
Just last week I went out and forgot my filters. But I put down my camera on a tripod in a couple of compositions to try to catch some nice waves, and shot in bursts.
I didn't get spectacular waves that way -- my camera wasn't low enough. But I did get several series of images that are perfect practice for this techniques.
Playing with different stacking methods I get some nice different effects, such as ghostly mists around some of the rocks in the water.
Thanks!
Thank you for sharing this technique. My favourite of the three images is the colour version.
Hi Peter, Thanks a lot for this great tutorial. Very useful for me! God bless you and keep photographing great scenes!
I loved the black and white image, it reminded me to look back on a recent image I took in the blue hour. I'm going to try the black and white to see how it turns out. Stay safe
Welcome back, it's good to see you enjoying all 'photography outside' thing.
Thats a nice idea. So you take one sharp photo with f/11 or so, to avoid diffraction make your photo soft, and then you are closing the aperture all the way down using f22 because you don't care about the water becoming soft and so you are simulating a long exposure by stacking multiple photos!!! Great.
The horizontal black and white picture is absolutely stunning. Great work mads 👌
Used the stacking multiple images technique for a while. I started doing it because I can't afford to be buying filters. I actually posted a little video on my Instagram about it about a month or so ago. Definitely handy when you are not carrying filters around with you
Yes, exactly, some people can't afford filters and this is a great alternative.
Fantastic video as always Mads! I gotta go with the Black and White landscape mode shot, but I love all three shots. Actually learned a bunch, had no idea you could stack exposures like this to completely smooth out water. Keep up the great work!
Thanks a lot, you are very welcome and I will for sure :)
I'm a sucker for black and white, they were my fav!
The color shot was the best IMO
Class photos Peter I like the color one but both are excellent photos
The color was my favourite, I liked the foreground element. Seems like a lot of work versus using a filter though eh?
A lot of work, yes (well, not for the blue hour photos), but sometimes you just don't have a filter or can't afford one :)
@@MadsPeterIversen oh I totally agree, it’s a cool option for sure. That boat is cool and looks great in the photos! Ha ha, loved the little wave hop. 😛
A lot of work, but also less noIse in the final image.
B&W vertical but with the two rocks in foreground. The rocks serve as the perfect framing and leading eye into the boat as well as the perfect metaphor or symbolism of ships running aground (onto rocks)
Wow, I've never thought this could also work to create long exposures when there's too much light and you don't have an ND filter! Only though it's useful to remove people from shots. Much appreciated, learned a very useful skill as a landscape/nature photographer today!
Thanks for the info.
Interesting technique, thank you for sharing.
Thank you for the video. You showed me something new, thank you. BTW I liked the B&W image better, but both are very nice photographs
Great video. Thanks for sharing your process.
I love the black and white image the best. Great job Mads as always.
Thanks a lot, David! :)
Fantastic pictures 👏🏾
Absolutely gorgeous, well done!
I've never understood why this technique isn't more popular with high quality automatic stacking so easy now, since it produces lower noise images that also have less chance of thermal sensor artefacts. Nice tutorial Mads.
Thanks and you are welcome. You're completely right. It also reduce noise :)
I loved the first black & white the best, but I also liked the color one. Really interesting video, thanks.
Hey Mads, many thanks for this one! I am this "always forgets his filters dude" and wish I had known this before! 🙃 it is also useful for my 14 mm which isn't capable of being combined with filters. Thank you again!
I love the black and white👌
I love the black and white compositions most.
Thank you for this. I have avoided using lenses that don't filter well, (like your Sony 12-24). With this awesome technique I can now use my bulbous wide primes for long exposure work! You're a genius!
Hehe thanks a lot, but I did learn this tip from someone else ;)
I love the first black and white one. I learned to buy a variable ND filter for shooting long exposure. Lol
Good stuff! Surely will stack all the files in 3/4 divided stacks from now on. Thanks for sharing the idea!
You're welcome :)
You shared some great information, but I will stick to using a 10 stop filter due to the ease of use, quicker process, and less memory requirements on my SD card.
I liked both but the black and white was my favourite. I think the ND filter makes life easier but this is a great technique to know
Thanks, a very nice trick to solve when forgetting to bring the filters! Used to stacking and masking to compensate for the dynamic range of my camera which is not really the best
Thanks for the explanation, the B&W is my favorite...
Great video - and good rock-skimming skills too! I bought the A7Rii instead of A7Riii so I can do this in-camera. I use it all the time.
Hi Mads. Once again a very instructive tutorial. Your enthusiasm for what you do is inspirational. Thank you for the time and effort you put into these videos.
Great, i forgot that one! thanks for remember this.
Black and white my favorite. Thank you Mads. Learn something new every day 🙏🏻
Mads, I've liked most the vertical, coloured photo, with two stones in the foreground and the horizontal B&W.
Nice technique
Gorgeous end result - I prefer the b&w. Thank you for all the work it took to make the image!
You are very welcome and thanks, Louise :)
Interesting.. Would it be possible to pull this off for video too? like have the exact sale angle 2 times but at different time of day.. Wonder what a median of multiple shots would look like at 25 fps!
All are so beautiful. If I had to choose a favorite edit, I think it would be your vertical B+W. I would have been tempted to lighten the water, at first. But, I agree with the darker contrast, and stand corrected! Thank you, so much!
Great tutorial
Hello there , how can you tell that the boat is not moving ? Any movement could show on the long exposure . Thank you ;
Solution is given on 5:05 and 10:30.
I like the minimalist black and white.
Cool technique! Thanks for sharing. Preferred the black and white as it fit the scene a little more. Plus the leading line of the beach worked well.
Thanks Mads, really useful video. I would have loved it if you had spent more time on your post production process. I’m going to look up Resterising. Beautiful photograph. Thanks again
B&W was my favorite. My a7RIII (and 100-400GM) got destroyed when my tripod was knocked over this past weekend, so I am living vicariously through videos like this until my a7RIV arrives.
Sorry to hear that! It's the worst feeling. I hope you at least had it insured?
Thanks for the video. My fav is the B&W landscape image.
tnanks for this interesting trick
Thankyou very useful my self I have a theoretically 8-2000 (3-11 stop) but in reality i personally find it good only until -7stops, I think i will try this technique maybe with my filter so a -7 stops filter may look like a -15 stops filter and I may be able to shoot also in daylight. Have a nice day, just inscribed myself, Max
B&W is the best i think. ..thx
They‘re all so nice but the b&w is my favorit too. So cool to learn how to take a l.e. without a nd. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing...............
It would be interesting to compare your final shots with one taken with, say, a Big Stopper Lee Filter.
Nice technique. Good job.
Hi Mads, great tutorial but the b&w certainly works for me
yep, I've actually always preferred to do it like this as this also gives the best possible image.
Similar to 'lucky imaging', especially for scenes that might get crossed by planes, boats, cars satellites, people, etc. this gives the freedom to hand pick or mask single frames. In high wind this can be vital too!
It also eliminates orders of magnitude of noise giving the stack much greater dynamic range when exposing for the highlights and color resolution stretching beyond 14 bit depending on your chosen color space... 16bit/channel or 32bit/channel.
Last but not least with this, one gets an accurate exposure preview QUICKLY... also huge benefit.
While I do wish my R5 had the build in on the fly stacking ability, I don't mind the processing. Part of the fun. Then again, I've stacked millions of telescope images and I've written my own python script to do it for me...
oh and plus one doesn't have to have many filters and/or adapters. The only place where those are needed are movies, and if I want open aperture but everything is too bright for the lowest ISO and shortest exposure time... rare, but it happens. Since I usually don't carry around filters, my loss.
Nice about the Sonys (I have Canon stuff) is that they now offer much shorter exposure times, I think the A1 goes to 1/32000th of a second! nice
Horizontal B&W shot is great.
I loved the video. Great tips. And I actually liked the horizontal B&W. I felt it gave the image more character. Love your channel. Have been a subscriber for about a year. Always great tips and advice. Thanks for doing this.
Thanks a lot, Matt, and thanks for your thoughts and for continuing to follow the channel :)
Interesting way to gain long exposures. I prefer the the colour photo and the foreground rocks make the picture.