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OK - this is in part carried on from another thread, but is an interesting subject on it's own.

Frequently, you will see water pictures with a silky effect - how is this done?

Put simply, it is a slower shutter speed than would otherwise be used in the situation.

How do you do this?

By perhaps using a combination of high F-number, and long shutter speed - you may also want to try Neutral Density filters. Overexposing (or pulling) the picture is also an option.

I now throw this open to any other input.

I'm not entirely sure I understand what ya'll mean by "silky effect."

For an interesting effect, try jiggling the camera in time with the ripples.......No no I wasn't serious!
Sheepie, why haven't you gone to bed?

Nnnnsic wrote:I'm not entirely sure I understand what ya'll mean by "silky effect."

Leigh

Like darb has done in this post

I bought an ND4 filter for just this very reason, perceiving the ISO200 minimum on the D70 to be a limiting factor for waterfall photography.

In practice, I have found that a relatively UNslow shutter speed is required for that 'silky' effect. Given that gravity is 9.8m^-2, I'm finding typically 1/10th or 1/15th of a second is doable, and at my limits of handholdability. Of course, I still bracket the hell out of any scenes encoutered, for finding the optimum shutter speed/blur effect and to counter camera shake due to handholding.

The only way of doing this outside of photoshop is with long shutter speeds. CPL's and ND filters as well as small APT is simply a way to manipulate the camera in giving you slow shutter speeds. there is no other way.