Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. So I've come out to the inlet here in Boca Raton, Florida. That's the inlet right behind me. It's the waterway that connects our inner coastal waterway out to behind me here at the Atlantic Ocean. The boat's coming in and out to access the ocean through here. It's pretty tritrus when you swing around here. You can see how fast that water is moving and just how rough it can get. I'm going to try to shoot some long exposures with my 15 stop ND filter. Hopefully we get some clouds that kind of push in. And yeah, let's see what we can get today. Alright, so I'm all set up with my shot here. I don't have the filter on yet. So the first thing you want to do is take your exposure without the filter, get the speed that would be properly exposed without the filter. And after I do that, I'm going to get everything in my composition right, my exposure right, and then I'm going to put the filter on and then I'm going to use an app to calculate what new exposure is with the filter on. So right now I'm at F13 and 1-400th of a second. So now I'm going to take out my app and I'm going to put the filter on first and then I'm going to take out my app and calculate the new exposure time with the 15 stop ND filter on it. Alright guys, so I'm going to put on my 15 stop neutral density filter. This one's made by Breakthrough Pharmacy. It's really the only filter company that I use. It's the best one that I've found. The far circular filters go. It doesn't give off any kind of color cast at all, which a lot of the other ones do, especially the cheaper model. These are overly expensive. This one is about $179 US, but I've had great results with it so far. Anyway, I'm going to put this on the camera now, around the lens. And we've got some clouds moving in here, which is perfect. I'm going to take the app out and calculate the new exposure time. Alright, so I don't know, even though you can see this, but my exposure time without the lens is about 1-500th of a second with the 15 stop ND filter on that gives me about a 1 minute exposure. So I'm going to give that a shot. There's always some experimentation with this, so I'm going to start out at that 1 minute time and see what happens with that. Hey guys, welcome to the next day. After looking at some of the footage that I took yesterday, I've decided to come back to the same beach and redo a little bit of it. The footage was pretty cool, but some of the tips that I was giving seemed kind of hard to follow. Probably for a couple of reasons. I was at the end of that jetty and the waves were crashing around me and the high tide was coming in. I just made it a little bit distracting and I don't think I was clear on some of the things that I was telling you. And also I had a bunch of people start walking up into the location that I was at and I'm really not comfortable vlogging when there's people around, not yet anyway, something I need to work on, but yeah, I'm just not comfortable when people are near. So I've come back down to the same beach. I'm going to try to clarify some of those things that I was saying yesterday. Hopefully I didn't confuse anybody with it, but I think after today, hopefully it'll be a little bit more clear. So let's get out of the car here and go back down to the beach and see what we can get. We got some storms building up again. So maybe some real ominous moody clouds. So I'm looking forward to getting out there and seeing what kind of photos we can get today. Wow. Check out all this seaweed. I have never seen it this bad before. That's insane. And kind of gross. But actually I'm going to use it as a little bit of a leading line as I take the photo down the beach. So maybe it'll work out in my favorite. It still gross though. Alright, so first step and probably the most important is to have a steady tripod. You're going to be doing exposure as I wear from one minute to five minutes or more, even in the daylight. And you got to minimize any kind of camera shake. Any movement up your camera is going to ruin your picture. So step one, steady tripod. Alright, and the next step would be to get your composition right. Mine is a pretty basic right here. I have these buildings to my right and kind of framing the right side of the photo with that seaweed doing kind of making for a leading line down the beach. And then hopefully the longest exposure will turn this heavy surf into just like a sea of white, like almost like snow, hopefully. So, yeah, pretty basic composition, but that's what I have to work with today. Alright, so the last thing you want to do before you put the filter on is properly expose your photo without the filter on. That's going to determine what your exposure time is once you get the filter on the lens. So right now I'm at an F11, ISO 100 and 116th of a second. Alright, now using the app that I showed you yesterday for a properly exposed photo that 116th of a second with a 15-stodd neutral density filter, it's going to be about a 3, 3 and a half minute exposure. So I'm going to start out 3 and see how that goes. As I said, there's a little bit of experimentation with this. So I'm going to start out with 3 and see how that goes. Maybe a bit more a bit less, but let's see how it comes out. Okay, so the final step before actually taking the shot is I put the neutral density filter on and I put my camera into bold mode and I'm going to trigger it. I'm going to use the Sony shutter release or remote control. You can use anything like an intervillometer or some kind of generic shutter release button. And I've also put a 2-second timer on my camera. That way it minimizes any kind of shape before actually taking the shot. Also once I take the shot, I'm going to stand in front of my camera or to the side and block the wind. We have a strong wind coming in from the ocean. Again, the wind is your enemy with long exposures. So I'm going to do whatever I can do to minimize any kind of camera shape. So I guess the one drawback about shooting with 15-stop ND filter is that I've adjusted my camera into portrait mode and any time that you readjust your shot, you have to take the filter off because you have to readjust your focal point. And like I said, the camera just, the lens cannot see through the ND filter because it's so dark. So you have to take it off, readjust your focal point, put it back on and do the whole process over again. So that's the one drawback, but I love the results that it gets. High tide is starting to come in again. So yeah, you can see the water coming up around me. It's a great name to come here off. So I'm going to finish up this shot and I'm going to get out of here for the day. Here comes the sea we've grossed. If you're joining my channel for the very first time today, I want to thank you very much for watching along. Hopefully you got some value out of that. And if you did, go ahead and hit that subscribe button and leave me some comments on the photos and the video. I try to release a new video every Monday morning around 9 a.m. Eastern Standard Time in the United States, so be on the lookout for that. Until next week, thanks for joining in. Stay safe, wear your mask, which I'm getting ready to put back on. Take care of each other and have a great week, guys. Thank you very much. Bye.