for get pushed this week @adi314 challenged me to try a bw long exposure in the style of Michael Kenna and without using ND filters... Adi suggested trying the technique Tony Northrup uses in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcZkCnPs45s
hopefully this is reasonably close to Kenna's style...
some info on Michael Kenna from Wikipedia
"Michael Kenna (born 1953) is an English photographer best known for his unusual black & white landscapes featuring ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours. His photos concentrate on the interaction between ephemeral atmospheric condition of the natural landscape, and human-made structures and sculptural mass." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kenna_(photographer)
this is a blend of 7 images - each 3.2s long... each image was processed from RAW in LR... following Northrup's process, i brought them into PS as a stack, aligned, converted to a smart object and then used the "mean"... i also did some clean up work... once back in LR i converted to b&w using silverfx... back in LR (again) i tweaked the blacks and whites, and added some vignetting...
i'm also using this for the Dogwood week 27 - flattery...
@adi314 - so... what do you think? close enough to his style? thank you for that link to northrop's video... not sure i agree entirely with his thoughts on filters, but that PS bit is cool, and i think worked quite well for this...
@taffy thanks Taffy... i guess my write-up could've been clearer... i was just tasked with emulating Kenna's style... not a specific image... i will try to clarify in the explanation...
@northy No worries...I just really liked this and assumed it was long exposure. But then wondered if you'd done something in processing that I was missing. Anyway, I always love your work...and learn from it.
@taffy thx 🙂... if you watch the video, bout midway thru Northrop explains how to use PS to simulate a long exposure... although each image was 3.2s, and the water was quite still, the original images were still quite a bit rougher than this... processing in PS really gave it an extra bit of glow...
Yeah, I question his whining...I mean, some of his complaints about filters, too. I mean, if it takes you a minute to put the filter on, you're doing something wrong. But he takes some beautiful photos.
As do you. And your offering today is gorgeous. I'm gonna try this technique. You've inspired me.
@dood14 tx :) i kinda laughed at his comments on the polarizing filters... mine live on my lenses - and i don't think the extra stop of iso is that problematic... i do keep meaning to experiment to see whether i really feel they help, but y'know, then i would have to spend a "minute" taking them off ;p
Great photo. I have been reading about that type of long exposure and have been wanting to try it. Seeing how well yours turned out is motivating me to get off my bum and do it.
@joysabin tx! And yes... the heavy lifting is done in PS... I just use LR to process from RAW and to adjust contrast and stuff... all things you can do in PS...
I think this is basically what the Sony PlayMemories Smooth Reflections "Fake Long Exposure" app does.
As do you. And your offering today is gorgeous. I'm gonna try this technique. You've inspired me.