{"id":566,"date":"2006-02-09T12:13:30","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T12:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2006-02-09T12:13:30","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T12:13:30","slug":"lie-and-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Lie And Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here, again, is proof that Albert procrastinates the wrong things. He breaks program schedule to show you this cool trick, brought to you with the power of two polarizers in front of a digital camera. In order – a linear polarizer (must be linear), circular polarizer, digital camera. Yep, my circular-linear-wannabe-neutral-density filter<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nThe setting?<\/b> A traditionally scorching bright sunny day, with the absolute EVs scorching at around 15<\/i>. Perfect, they say, for outdoor action photography, as every shot will be scorchingly lit with shutter speeds of about 1\/250 seconds at most<\/i>. The subject?<\/b> A lion dance performance.<\/p>\n

Of course, I wanted a different effect than to see the lions being immobilized in mid air. I wanted to convey motion<\/b>, something you would not be able to do even at F8.0. Cue the crossed polarizers!<\/p>\n

Settings?<\/b> ISO 50, aperture priority (anywhere between F2.6 to F8.0) and EV -1. Pardon the composition of the pictures, I was focusing on getting motion in cool ways.<\/p>\n

But first, a peek into the mind of a lion:
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This is a regular shot, no movement, no filters:
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I then attach the filters, and turn the linear polarizer (the outer ring) to reduce the light coming to the lens, letting the camera to choose a slower shutter speed:
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Motion looks better in wide shots.
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By chance, I got this; one still, the other two moving.
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So that’s how it’s done!
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Big drums and heavy beats. How could you not headbang to this?
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Nod your head yo.
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Another way to make use of shutter speed is to pan with the subject<\/a>, like so: (Note the Queen T-shirt!)
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A faster-moving panned subject.
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Show’s over, boys.
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Happy Chinese New Year to all of you! (Yes, this is still valid till the day oranges are thrown into rivers.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here, again, is proof that Albert procrastinates the wrong things. He breaks program schedule to show you this cool trick, brought to you with the power of two polarizers in front of a digital camera. In order – a linear polarizer (must be linear), circular polarizer, digital camera. Yep, my circular-linear-wannabe-neutral-density filter. The setting? A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}