Ok guys i need some thoughts on an experiment I'm trying to run.
Here's the situation: say you are out in daylight and want to take a nice blurred photo of running water. You lower the shutter speed to 2 seconds. Lower the ISO to 50. Since our phones have fixed aperture we cannot increase the fstop so the photo is always going to be terribly over exposed.
The experiment I'm trying is in these over exposed situations, can adding ND filters rein in the exposure?
Take a look at the following shots. All shot on a tripod as shown.
First is full auto so you know what the scene looked like.
Second is 1/8 second, ISO 50.
Third is 1/2 second, ISO 50.
Fourth is 1 second, ISO 50.
I'm using a stack of 3 ND filters - nd 2, 4 and 8 for each shot. Even with those stacked filters my shots are still very over exposed. Don't get me wrong, the ND filters are helping, as confirmed by the exposure meter on the view finder. But its just not helping enough to get exposure to zero.
Any thoughts on what we can do in these situations? Continue to stack more ND filters?? Buy a DSLR with adjustable f-stop? Lol