How to Shoot and Retouch a Super Long Exposure of the Eiffel Tower
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In this episode, I will show you another example of a Super Long Exposure, but this time back home with my friend, the famous Eiffel Tower.
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Thanks for another great tutorial!
very nice photos
Very nice fine art. Could you do an episode about fine art printing, I mean, all the workflow, including the choosing of the paper to print. Thank you!
Great video. Thanks Serge. Also, the banding is definitely a youtube thing. When I download your raw file, no banding.
Dear Serge , thanks a lot i learn from your tutorial and now specially my black and white pics are became good because of you. thanks again.
Super gemacht
As always, educational. Thank you, Serge!!
Another great edit. Thank you Serge!
Gotta envy that lean camera rig. An itty bitty tripod for a 3 minute exposure? Risky. I'm surprised the bridge is stable enough. Perhaps a testament to the image stabilization on the A7 rII.
Have you tried "dehaze" to make the water white? I shot a long exposure and used a brush and the dehaze slider to make the water white.
Serge, a great point. I never desaturate to get B&W. Always do some color mixing!
Great vid Serge! Please do a comparison b/w Darktable and Lightroom!
Hello Serge - I need to understand how you know that you need to put 3 minutes for that photo with the nd filter 10, F16 and sos 50 ? tsk for your reply?
Awesome!!!!!!!
Just curious - why do you use long exposure when you are not blurring sky detail/moving water, or trying to remove people from the frame? What's the difference between this long Exp and just a regular shot?
+Martin Kincade The river was moving and therefore blurred with a 3 min exposure.
Lol et malgré tes voyages ton accent est toujours à couper au couteau 😀😀😀
Euh, je plaisante, je suis tes tutos depuis pas mal de temps 😎
+Tom Tom je pense qu'il le fait un peu exprès, car l'accent plaît aussi à des anglophones en donnant une légère touche d'exotisme.
+Okto Putsch
Okay, je connais cette posture, bon, elle est un peu poussée lol 😜😜😜
You should try Noiseless from Macphun, I use it on almost all of my photos (I like to lift the shadows a lot which causes a lot of noise, even on my D810). It is amazing. I got all of their software for only $99 when they had their sale on the Creative Kit for Christmas. Worth every penny.
Extremely knowledgeable as always. I have a question, did You forgot to use "Masking" under "Sharpening" or it was intentional because it is ideal to use when You have noise in sky and dark areas. Thank You
Great tutorial as always Serge!!. I consider you my best teacher. Just one thing: it is just me or I can see colorcast in the picture?
How about adding a tiny bit of feathered white vignette to blend down the the vignette that naturally occurred from the ND filter. Don't eliminate but just slightly reduce the vignette at the edges.
Did you forget to mask the sharpening? Or do you normally not bother Serge?
Exactly. We all know his routine so well, any control adjustment left out stands out like a sore thumb. No wonder he was having an issue with noise in the sky!
how come we in the UK always pay more, cant get it cheaper, creative cloud that is than £9.98
Hey serge ramelli, im a big fan of ur photography and retouching.. But i would like to know whether we can shoot long exposure without nd filter or not!! Nd filters are very expensive and if theres any way with retouching the photo to make it a long exposure, please share.. Thanks and keep doing your good work.
+Avishek Mukherjee (Avi) use a cheaper one. They work pretty good for black and white
can u share a link to buy one!!
To create this effect, you can take multiple images and blend them in Photoshop... avoid using cheap ND filters as they do more bad than good to your photo.
How did you take a 3 minute exposure shot at daylight, F16 and the photo didn't came out all white? When I try to do this, all I see is a white image. Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm an amateur.
He used a ND filter, like he said...😉
+Joel Nogueira Thanks!
To all the haters around... the banding could also be a result of video compression. @serge: you forgot to mask out the sharpening this time ;)
+Nico Kaiser It is 100% due to video compression. I download his sample Raw files each time and they are perfect. I don't understand why folks won't do a bit of research and use the free tools provided. They are missing the experience of discovery by simply watching a video and then clicking on the next.
What is the difference between the Variable NDX fader filter and a normal variable nd filter? Does the fader one do something different?
Do you mean a graduated filter?
+Vlog Watcher The Fader is variable, meaning that you can dial in the amount of darkening. Sounds convenient, but, it is really made up of two polarizers, and as you move towards the limits you'll find weird banding often happens. Regrettably, I find that you get better quality using a static ND filter that has a set value.
oh ok, thanks!
Thanks for the video Serge. Again, I think new folks who are getting into super long-exposures should understand how to actually calculate the length of exposure with the 10-stop ND filter, which is missing from this video, and from your previous video. Doing your method could be a waste of time if the end exposure comes out under/over exposed.
Just take your shutter speed w/o the ND filter, multiply by the number of stops (in this case 10 stops), and you get your exposure. E.g 1/6s without ND; With ND: 1/6 * 2^10 = 170s.
OR use the ISO6400 rule to quickly calculate the exposure at ISO100. E.g. at ISO6400, shutter speed is 3s; at ISO100, shutter speed is 3 minutes (1s at ISO6400 = 1 min at ISO100).
OR simply use the camera's meter in manual; dial to 30s, and see how many stops it is underexposed. multiple by that number of stops to get shutter speed in Bulb mode.
OR if the ND filter came with a chart, use that! :)
+Marc Abillama yw!
Thank you for that, but when we are math haters: how are we supposed to do so? ;) I mean: I don't even know how to time by two a1/6 of a second! In "real number", what would 1/6 stand for?
+nycaxl lol. I think you can double and half numbers - you don't need to hate math for knowing how to double a number and how to divide by two. There are no complex equations. Fundamentally, adjusting exposure is all about doubling and halving either iso, aperture, or shutter speed. Keeping one of the three constant, if you double one, you should half the other for the same exposure. I'm sure if you start shooting in manual (you might already be), overtime with experience, you'll begin to see the relationship. Some math fundamentals are required here, e.g. knowing fractions, etc. hope this helps. cheers!
+luckyblueduck thank you for your answer. i am actually shooting in manual, but more of a feeling person or trial and error one if you like... So, i guess i am wasting my time by not knowing my math lol! And fractions are 25 years away for me, so i don't remember much ... But i never took the time to see that they were all connected so precisely in that way: keeping one constant, doubling another one and halving the third for instance...
Serge,
Can you offer us a discount on the entire Creative Cloud package? It's $49/month but would love to go through you with the better pricing.
Could you please show us or give us your best attempt at how @ai.visuals, on instagram, edits?
Is it me or is there a lot of circle banding around the edges of the long exposure photo? I hear that the Sony a7r2 is terrible with long exposure photography because there's banding and hot spots.
+TetsusaigaDrgn There is a lot of circle.
+ekspert081 are you saying that there is a lot of circle banding with the a7rii for long exposure? do you have personal experience with that?
+TetsusaigaDrgn No,i dont have a personal experience with a7rII,just saying that there is a lot of circles around the edges,and it looks bad
+ekspert081 i agree. I'm trying to find out if this is a common problem because i am trying to upgrade to a 5dmk3 or an a7r2
Probably down to videos compression, there is a link in his description to get the actual raw file, why not download it and check for yourself.
Pour une fois qu'on a quelqu'un avec des bons tutos ... faut qu'il parle anglais :-) et en plus il est français !
en tout cas merci pour tes excellents tutos et fais un effort, parle français :-)
the circular banding in this photo make it a throw away.
There is no banding on the image, it's the video compression.
It seems there's a sun rising on the pond. Behind the church. Technichality does not allways does a good work. Thats your problem. Sorry Serge. You better take 5 year course on Painting and 5 more on architecture.
Lol, rant.^^
Sergey needs to invest in a Dustbuster! Seems to be a common theme with all his photos and comes across as very amateur!
Being sold pricey tutorials from someone who can't be bothered to spend 30 seconds keeping their lens/sensor clean? I don't think so!