Questions tagged [water]
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Can this water damage to my Canon T6 be repaired?
My Canon T6 got wet at a waterfall; the battery did not get wet. I let the camera dry out for weeks - it apparently works now but is giving me totally white images.
Is there any chance this damage can ...
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Protect action camera lens from water drops
I use a waterproof action camera (GoPro Hero 8 Black, no housing required) for both over and under water shots. Most shots are taken using a remote so I can't really manage the camera when the shot is ...
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Is a water-damaged micro SD card likely to be readable?
I dropped a camera in the water in the factory where I work; the micro SD card in the camera had private pictures on int that I don't want anyone to see. Knowing that the water contained some ...
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Water behind ships much bluer than rest of ocean
On Wikipedia I have found the following image:
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) destroyer JDS Kongō (DDG 173) sails in formation with other JMSDF ships and ships assigned to the USS ...
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How can I improve the contrast between the water and bushes in this photo?
I took this photo:
I chose a bush as the background, mainly because water and a green background go together very well. I also had the aperture to around f4.5, so the depth of field is much smaller, ...
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How to get soft-blur effect on flowing water with iPhone?
I like taking pictures of flowing water on my iPhone, and I'd like to get the soft-cloudy-blur effect for the water. On a traditional lens camera, this can be done with a longer exposure time. Is this ...
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How can I take advantage of the transparency of water in a landscape photo? [duplicate]
I would like to take a better picture of that fjord where water is crystal-clear.
The idea would be to include immersed stuffs in the foreground (whether ice or stones, algae...) and mountains in the ...
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Can a lens's MgF2 anti-reflective coating be damaged by salt water?
I'm looking to find out if lens MgF2 anti-reflective coating can be damaged if the lens is submerged frequently in the sea water (salt water).
Just a clarification. This relates ONLY to lens itself. ...
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How to "NOT" photograph reflections on water
Is there any lens filter or any other technique, that I can use to photograph lakes, oceans or any water source, without the reflections on it?
Every photo of a water source can be seen with a ...
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How do I recreate this type of photograph - watches reflected in water
I'm interested in watch photography but it's not something I've done before and wanted some pointers before I started.
This is the sort of thing I'm talking about:
It's one of several images from ...
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Photographing surfers
A while ago I was photographing some people surfing.
I looked at some previews and was a bit puzzled: all the shots were suffering from extremely low contrast, and seemed generally out of focus.
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How to create different color cast on water droplets?
The photo below is an image of a cheap plastic water bottle, you can see the white-colored cap on top. However, I am not sure how the lighting was done. For sure no expensive strobing has been used. I ...
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How can I increase the sharpness for shots like this water droplet image?
How can increase the sharpness of this kind of shot. I was using a 55-200mm with f/8 and 1/4000 shutter speed
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How can I take a long-time exposure of water without a grey filter?
I would like to take some long-time exposure images from rivers and lakes, but I do not own a grey filter. That results in overexposed images, up to complete white images. Thus two questions: How can ...
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How to prevent water droplet formation on waterproof camera lens?
Waterproof camera (Canon D10 in my case) is great for shooting in or near water during sports. Unfortunaly, water sprays onto the lens and water droplets form, which disturb or totally destroy the ...
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Photographing a waterfall but also have a person in foreground
I was wondering how I take a picture of a waterfall in motion but also have a person as my main subject. I know I have to use a slower shutter speed, and use a tripod to get the water in motion. How ...
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How to shoot/capture the droplets of water being sprayed through a spray bottle
I am trying to capture the droplets of water while being sprayed on a subject through a spray bottle. What I mean here is - when I am spraying the water on my subject, I want to capture the droplets ...
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How to avoid water in a shower from appearing to fall upwards?
If I'm photographing a bathroom shower, using flash, the fall-off of the light from the flash is such that the water droplets appear to fall upwards. That is, they appear large at the top and narrower ...
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Camera on boat worth the risk?
I just got my first 'real' camera. Meaning something other than my phone. It's a Panasonic Lumix FZ70. I've been taking pictures of birds and insects in my backyard.
When I go kayaking (lazy ...
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Will multiple exposures or one long exposure give better outcome for silky water?
I have a Nikon D700 which can take up to 10 multiple exposure in camera.
I have a Samyang manual 14 mm lens ( brand new lens) with no filter thread for ND filters.
I am visiting Iceland next month ...
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Shooting at the beach: Options for protection?
I have in my mind taking some shots of crabs at a local beach. For the shots I envision this will mean lying prone in the sand and keeping the camera as low as possible to get the effect I want. ...
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How do I achieve the mirror effect with water?
I tried a few times to achieve mirror-like images with water, like this:
However, I never manage to take out all the roughness due to waves, streams and so on. I guess these pictures aren't always ...
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What's a powerful waterproof flash?
Based on recommendations in a previous question, I'm now looking at purchasing a couple of powerful flashes.
As far as i understand, almost all flash units are not waterproof at all. Since I take my ...
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Waterfall exposure time with Nikon d5100 [duplicate]
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How can I make good fountain/waterfall photos?
How do I make the water silky in water/beach photography?
yesterday I went outside my town, and tried to picture waterfall. On ...
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Water-damaged Canon EOS 550 giving Err 70
Well my 550D is bricked. I was near a wall and on the other side was the sea. A huge wave came. Wall was 6ft high but a big splash of water jumped over it and fell on me and the camera directly.
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How can I expose a waterfall scene correctly?
Last day, I was photographing a waterfall. It was a bright day and I was shooting around 2-3 in the afternoon.
I set aperture to f/11 and took the meter reading pointing camera towards the sky. ...
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How to shoot a image refracted through a drop of water?
How can I make a photo like this?
Please note that this is just a example (I don`t want a shot of Spiderman).
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Filtered water soaked Leica D-Lux 4 repair?
Apologies if this question doesn't fit here (suggested by a moderator)
While on vacation in Las Vegas, the wife decided to pour a bottle of filtered water into her purse and coincidentally, all over ...
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How to stitch automatically panoramas of images that lack well defined elements, sharp edges?
I often take large landscape panoramas of 100+ 21MPixel images. Quite often some of the images do not contain sharp, well defined elements that can be detected by automatic control point detectors. ...
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Long exposure water shots tutorial for dummies? [duplicate]
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How do I make the water silky in water/beach photography?
I want to start to do some long exposure shots of water like these:
picture from noticeeverything
So I don't know ...
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How to make transparent liquid on white porcelain visible?
I made a picture for the cooking.SE blog:
If you look very hard, in the middle, below the vanilla bean tip, is a small spill of synthetic vanilla essence (which is almost colorless, not dark like ...
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How do I photograph water without catching glare from sun?
For fun, I have been trying to photograph a small, fast-moving creek near my house, and I cannot figure out how to take a picture of the creek in good lighting without it reflecting the sun and ...
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How do I lengthen shutter speed with out washing out the picture?
I read this question, and I tried some long exposure shots myself. Every one of my shots though, is washed out. How do I achieve a long shutter speed while keeping the lighting looking natural?
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How do I make the water silky in water/beach photography?
I see beautiful photos of beaches or rivers/streams where the water looks like frosted glass...
How is this effect achieved?
Is it a longer exposure?
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Do you have any suggestions for poolside photography?
I'm going to photograph an event which will happen in a outdoor spa: pools with brilliant architecture and people having a good time. I think that most of the pictures will be taken at night.
I hope ...
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How can I affect color of a water droplet shot?
Experimenting with water droplets today. Pretty fun! I'd like to ask how can I improve upon it. First of all a picture of the setup:
Water is contained within a plastic bag that is taped to a tall-...
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How do I take a shot like the flooded tree by Andrew Tallon?
How did he make it look like this? What settings did he use and any special equipment? If anyone has any pointers, that'd be great!
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Night photography of fish in a stream
Yes, that's right. A friend has asked me to go "spot-lighting" with him, to photography some of the fauna in a local stream. Not too hard during the day, but most of them don't come out until night.
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How can I make good fountain/waterfall photos?
I have a Canon Digital EOS Rebel XT camera, and I wonder how you could take photos of moving water like rivers, waterfalls and fountains...
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