See my Filter Stacking Video to see the process of how this image was created. Having Fun with Filters by Brian Stamm The weather was cold, the waves choppy, and the eagles were a little inactive on our first day of shooting for the 2013 Reelfoot Lake Camera Club Council of Tennessee outing.  Weather being the fickle thing it is I decided I would opt to do some long shutter shots in order to get an ethereal feel to some of my photographs.  Several in the group asked me what the “stuff” was on the end of my camera.  After showing several in the group the effect I was getting they...

Novice as well as professional photographers can have a lot of fun with changing the shutter speed of their camera. Playing with length of time the shutter is open when taking a photograph can lead to very interesting photographs. Most people are familiar with the “slow water” shots where streams and rivers take on a silky look and provide an almost ethereal feeling. But slow water is just the beginning. There is a lot more that slow shutter speeds can do to help a photographer create that unique piece of art and here’s how to do it. The exposure triangle of photography is aperture,...