Hello steemians! Here's a photo i took a few years ago. I love that silky water effect in photographs and i tried to achieve it without a tripod. It's very difficult, you just need to be very still and have something to lean on.
Set up your camera and select your settings
- To capture water's flow, you'll want a shutter speed of 1/2 a second or longer, depending on the light. The longer the shutter speed, the more silky the effect.
- Put your camera in manual mode. This is the M on most DSLR cameras. Set the ISO to 100. Set the aperture to f/16 or f/22.
- Select your focus point. Typically for a landscape, this will be a point about one-third into the depth of the scene. However, it depends on the composition of your scene.
- Select your shutter speed. Use your camera's light meter to determine the best shutter speed to start with, though you may adjust that later. Remember, you want your shutter speed to be at least 1/2 a second to begin to get the blurred effect. Try a test shot, and continue to adjust your shutter speed until you have a proper exposure. Here is where you may need to use a neutral density filter if the daylight is too bright to allow a slow shutter speed without over exposing.
Practice away!
Enjoy results
xo