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!
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.
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
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!!
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!!!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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! 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.
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
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
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!
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.
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!
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!
@@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. 😛
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 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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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)
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.
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!
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.
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!!
Useful tips using your tripod in the sea, thanks!
Thank you for this tip😃. I didn't know it but I will definitely use it.
Love all the photos, but the black and white to me are absolutely stunning.
the vertical black and white image is gorgeous
Fantastic pictures 👏🏾
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
B&W is the best i think. ..thx
Black and white for sure. Thanks for the video. Very helpful.
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!!
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! :)
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!
Class photos Peter I like the color one but both are excellent photos
I liked them both - the colour shot has beauty, while the black and white has `mood`.
Great tutorial
Very cool and ingenious process. I liked them all.
The B&W is my favourite. Thanks for the editing tips.
Just phenomenal! The b&w turned out exceptionally. Well done!!!
Awesome tip and thanks for the detailed explanation start to finish. I like the black and white, landscape orientation.
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.
One of the rare occasions as a landscape photographer we are happy to see cloudless skies when shooting minimal long exposure images.
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.
Great video, makes me happy though that I have neutral density filters. I agree with the black and white photo, very nice.
The horizontal black and white picture is absolutely stunning. Great work mads 👌
Perfect workaround when I forget the filters or just dont have one for the particular lens in use!
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!
I'm still a long way from this quality of photography.
Thank you Mads! Great and informative video. I like the B&W best.
Mads, thank you! Great tip. And very awesome picture!
tnanks for this interesting trick
You made it sound easy well done. I did this many years ago its very cool to see it finished
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
Great work my friend !! Really liked the foreground stones in the image ..
I'm a sucker for black and white, they were my fav!
I liked the black and white. I was at the beach today with this very problem thanks for the tip.
I love the black and white👌
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
I love the black and white compositions most.
Hi Peter, Thanks a lot for this great tutorial. Very useful for me! God bless you and keep photographing great scenes!
Very useful information and explanation. Thank you. Difficult for me to decide which image I like best, but I do like them.
Welcome back, it's good to see you enjoying all 'photography outside' thing.
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!
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.
Thanks for sharing...............
I love the black and white image the best. Great job Mads as always.
Thanks a lot, David! :)
Thanks for the info.
Thanks for the explanation, the B&W is my favorite...
The color shot was the best IMO
I like the minimalist black and white.
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 :)
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
Black and white my favorite. Thank you Mads. Learn something new every day 🙏🏻
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.
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
Nice technique
Thank you for sharing this technique. My favourite of the three images is the colour version.
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.
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 :)
Great video. Thanks for sharing your process.
I loved the first black & white the best, but I also liked the color one. Really interesting video, thanks.
Interesting technique, thank you for sharing.
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!
Daytime long exposures by stacking. Why had I never considered this before? As usual Mads you are an inspiration. Thank you.
Do more astrophotography ;)
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.
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.
Absolutely gorgeous, well done!
Learnt some new PS techniques. I liked the BW image. Thanks
Great, i forgot that one! thanks for remember this.
Horizontal B&W shot is great.
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
Good stuff! Surely will stack all the files in 3/4 divided stacks from now on. Thanks for sharing the idea!
You're welcome :)
Nice technique. Good job.
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!
Hi Mads, great tutorial but the b&w certainly works for me
Mads, I've liked most the vertical, coloured photo, with two stones in the foreground and the horizontal B&W.
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!
I really love the bw photos, great work
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.
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.
Great thanks
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!
Interesting way to gain long exposures. I prefer the the colour photo and the foreground rocks make the picture.
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.
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 :)
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'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 :)
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
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.
Amazing tip! Thanks for sharing.
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)
I love the first black and white one. I learned to buy a variable ND filter for shooting long exposure. Lol
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.
Gracias
Waterproof footwear has really allow me to get shots I used t o miss.
@@Frobbl Unless the water is freezing ;)
I’d rather go barefooted but once a broken beer bottle ended my day and in.a doctor’s office. 😭
Excellent Mads thank you..