Today I drove over to Urbana, OH to view some of the B-25s gathering in preparation for the Doolittle Raiders reunion. I decided to do some experimenting with my camera, a Canon S5 IS (not an SLR). It has a 12x zoom so I can get reasonable close-ups and the image stabilization does a decent job of compensating for my shaky aim.
Anyway, I put the camera into shutter priority and tried setting the shutter speed down to about 1/60 sec to get a full disc prop blur, but the aperture couldn't close down tight enough to get a good shot (the photos were over exposed). I ended up shooting most of my pics around 1/250 sec and thus only got a partial blur.
Anyone have any ideas how to get a slower shutter speed? I wonder if a dark filter would work (or even fit on my camera)?
More photos here.
Anyway, I put the camera into shutter priority and tried setting the shutter speed down to about 1/60 sec to get a full disc prop blur, but the aperture couldn't close down tight enough to get a good shot (the photos were over exposed). I ended up shooting most of my pics around 1/250 sec and thus only got a partial blur.
Anyone have any ideas how to get a slower shutter speed? I wonder if a dark filter would work (or even fit on my camera)?
More photos here.