Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Butchart Fountain


Here's an image I took last week of a small fountain in Butchart Gardens on Victoria Island in British Columbia.
I took this image in aperture priority mode, set at f/8.0 to get the sharp focus and a moderate depth of field. I put my camera on a tripod and placed a circular polarizing filter on my 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. This helped reduce the dynamic range and the specular highlights and extended the shutter speed (to about 1 second, as I recall) to give that "silky" look to the flowing water.
-CG TTL