The technique of blending is really docile! The two pictures namely the color and the b&w, evoke different responses to me! The color photograph of the boat wreck with the sky gives me a sense of emptiness & helplessness of not just a boat wreck but it feels a loneliness of missing life and I strive to listen to the hustle bustle of life despite all the beauty I'd like to share with the one's I'm missing when I stare at this color picture! On the contrary, the b&w picture is far more compelling and evokes a fearful immediate response of the boat wreck and I felt, I wanted to flee from the boat wreck because it's a place of accident and long abandoned by life and none visited before me after the boat wreck and I feel frightened for being alone in the landscape and every element trying to engulf my person, so I feel I'd leave the place the sooner the best! The smoothness of water and blending of the sky with it enhanced the feeling of fright! Thank you presenting two incredible pictures of the same scene!

It really shows you how awesome a good ND filter is: way quicker, less chances of problems with alligning layers and during blending and less chromatic aberration because you don't have to shoot at f22.. Both B&W and color are awesome.

Tycker mest om den med färger! Sedan måste jag passa på att tacka för alla dessa fantastiska videos du gör, så lärorika och inspirerande! Tack!!

I like the minimalist black and white.

One of the rare occasions as a landscape photographer we are happy to see cloudless skies when shooting minimal long exposure images.

There is a shortcut. If you use file-->scripts-->statistics, you get a dialog box that prompts you to load your images, select your statistic (e.g. median) from a list and then Photoshop produces the same results as in the video. If you tick off the box "align layers", you can overcome any issues with your tripod shifting. You'll have to crop the image a little bit afterwards.

Love all the photos, but the black and white to me are absolutely stunning.

the vertical black and white image is gorgeous

Thats a nice idea. So you take one sharp photo with f/11 or so, to avoid diffraction make your photo soft, and then you are closing the aperture all the way down using f22 because you don't care about the water becoming soft and so you are simulating a long exposure by stacking multiple photos!!! Great.

I love the black and white👌

I liked them both - the colour shot has beauty, while the black and white has `mood`.

Love using median stacking - it's also useful for getting rid of transients in a series of shots (like people walking passed a building or vehicles in a road) - btw I preferred the b&w - very moody!

I'm still a long way from this quality of photography.

OMG, STACKING is the answer. I have been looking for certain functions and ideas for years now and never figured it out until just now. Thank you so much for this video. Keep up the good work!!!

If you take multiple exposures of a building (for example) and it has lots of people in, use that median technique too, it does a decent job

Love the way that you describe both!! Helps me understand the process even better. The way that you teach photography makes me feel that I am there with you (although probably a little warmer from the comfort of my home.) Your videos are so inspiring!!

Thank you for this tip😃. I didn't know it but I will definitely use it.

Useful tips using your tripod in the sea, thanks!

Wooo woo wooo amazing I have not got a ND filter yet and wanna take some long exposure tomorrow this is amazing thankyou so much for sharing brilliant the colour one is my favourite really really nicely done brilliant amazing image and thanks so much for that info

I loved the black and white ones they were just amazing🖤👌

Black and white for sure. Thanks for the video. Very helpful.

Hi Mads, each of the pictures have his own charme. But for me, the black and white composition looks more beautiful. Thanks for the video.

Awesome work - but for those who can't be bothered carrying around their big Lee (or other) filter system around, for example on holiday, just buy a screw in ND10 filter. These are cheap (£30) and weigh almost nothing, I always have one in my bag, plus an adaptor ring if using a smaller diameter lens e.g. using a 77mm filter for my 16-35 and 24-105, I have a 77>67mm step down ring for my 70-200.

I love the black and white compositions most.

Awesome tip, I'll definitely try this soon! I also have a tip - if you don't care about having a BW long exposure photo, you can use a welding glass as a makeshift filter. I had some pretty good results when I tried that.

Perfect workaround when I forget the filters or just dont have one for the particular lens in use!

Remember seeing this method in one of Tony Northrup's video... It's amazing, I used to go around shooting long Exposure photos on my phone because didn't have a professional setup before

B&W vertical but with the two rocks in foreground. The rocks serve as the perfect framing and leading eye into the boat as well as the perfect metaphor or symbolism of ships running aground (onto rocks)

Thank you! The technique works perfectly in Photopea. I've actually thought about this for a while now and had no idea it was such a good idea that the industry had already integrated it into popular software. I'm still new to pro photography.

Used the stacking multiple images technique for a while. I started doing it because I can't afford to be buying filters. I actually posted a little video on my Instagram about it about a month or so ago. Definitely handy when you are not carrying filters around with you

Sounds like a lot more work than just getting a filter... But it’s still pretty cool to know that alternative ways of doing this exist

I've never understood why this technique isn't more popular with high quality automatic stacking so easy now, since it produces lower noise images that also have less chance of thermal sensor artefacts. Nice tutorial Mads.

Great video, makes me happy though that I have neutral density filters. I agree with the black and white photo, very nice.

The horizontal black and white picture is absolutely stunning. Great work mads 👌

I'm a sucker for black and white, they were my fav!

Welcome back, it's good to see you enjoying all 'photography outside' thing.

The B&W is my favourite. Thanks for the editing tips.

B&W was my favorite. My a7RIII (and 100-400GM) got destroyed when my tripod was knocked over this past weekend, so I am living vicariously through videos like this until my a7RIV arrives.

Fantastic pictures 👏🏾

I leaned a lot Mads! I think I will haul my big filters with me....But I appreciated learning how to blur the water without them! Loved the B/w best!

Thankyou very useful my self I have a theoretically 8-2000 (3-11 stop) but in reality i personally find it good only until -7stops, I think i will try this technique maybe with my filter so a -7 stops filter may look like a -15 stops filter and I may be able to shoot also in daylight. Have a nice day, just inscribed myself, Max

B&W is the best i think. ..thx

Class photos Peter I like the color one but both are excellent photos

Wow, I've never thought this could also work to create long exposures when there's too much light and you don't have an ND filter! Only though it's useful to remove people from shots. Much appreciated, learned a very useful skill as a landscape/nature photographer today!

B&W - it ages the scene and gives it more character.

Black and white my favorite. Thank you Mads. Learn something new every day 🙏🏻

I liked both but the black and white was my favourite. I think the ND filter makes life easier but this is a great technique to know

I liked the black and white. I was at the beach today with this very problem thanks for the tip.

Thank you so much for this! I often find myself in situations where I wish I had an ND filter and neglected to bring one, or I don’t have one for the lens I’m using. I also like your method of compositing in sharp elements taken at a larger aperture, to avoid the effects of diffraction. I will definitely be using this technique in the future. Well done!

Daytime long exposures by stacking. Why had I never considered this before? As usual Mads you are an inspiration. Thank you.

You shared some great information, but I will stick to using a 10 stop filter due to the ease of use, quicker process, and less memory requirements on my SD card.

What a timing with this video! Just last week I went out and forgot my filters. But I put down my camera on a tripod in a couple of compositions to try to catch some nice waves, and shot in bursts. I didn't get spectacular waves that way -- my camera wasn't low enough. But I did get several series of images that are perfect practice for this techniques. Playing with different stacking methods I get some nice different effects, such as ghostly mists around some of the rocks in the water. Thanks!

Awesome tip and thanks for the detailed explanation start to finish. I like the black and white, landscape orientation.

Just phenomenal! The b&w turned out exceptionally. Well done!!!

All are so beautiful. If I had to choose a favorite edit, I think it would be your vertical B+W. I would have been tempted to lighten the water, at first. But, I agree with the darker contrast, and stand corrected! Thank you, so much!

Black and white, without a doubt. I love bnw images. Just learn a new trick today, thanks Mads, but then again, it's way simpler to use a ND filter :) Personally I'm not a fan of showing the water like that, it's not natural.

Very cool and ingenious process. I liked them all.

The filter seams to me more practical than several exposures and than burn time in PS, but that is just me, that always try not to complicate... If you have well defined clouds in the Sky they will look better in blur than stacking them in diffferent positions, since they moved

Thank you for sharing this technique. My favourite of the three images is the colour version.

90 exposures. Is life that long. Filter job done .and on with the fun .

yep, I've actually always preferred to do it like this as this also gives the best possible image. Similar to 'lucky imaging', especially for scenes that might get crossed by planes, boats, cars satellites, people, etc. this gives the freedom to hand pick or mask single frames. In high wind this can be vital too! It also eliminates orders of magnitude of noise giving the stack much greater dynamic range when exposing for the highlights and color resolution stretching beyond 14 bit depending on your chosen color space... 16bit/channel or 32bit/channel. Last but not least with this, one gets an accurate exposure preview QUICKLY... also huge benefit. While I do wish my R5 had the build in on the fly stacking ability, I don't mind the processing. Part of the fun. Then again, I've stacked millions of telescope images and I've written my own python script to do it for me...

I loved the black and white image, it reminded me to look back on a recent image I took in the blue hour. I'm going to try the black and white to see how it turns out. Stay safe

Mads, thank you! Great tip. And very awesome picture!

Hi Mads. Once again a very instructive tutorial. Your enthusiasm for what you do is inspirational. Thank you for the time and effort you put into these videos.

The color shot was the best IMO

Fantastic video as always Mads! I gotta go with the Black and White landscape mode shot, but I love all three shots. Actually learned a bunch, had no idea you could stack exposures like this to completely smooth out water. Keep up the great work!

Thank you Mads! Great and informative video. I like the B&W best.

I loved the first black & white the best, but I also liked the color one. Really interesting video, thanks.

Great tutorial

You made it sound easy well done. I did this many years ago its very cool to see it finished

Gorgeous end result - I prefer the b&w. Thank you for all the work it took to make the image!

Hi Peter, Thanks a lot for this great tutorial. Very useful for me! God bless you and keep photographing great scenes!

Interesting way to gain long exposures. I prefer the the colour photo and the foreground rocks make the picture.

I love the first black and white one. I learned to buy a variable ND filter for shooting long exposure. Lol

Hey Mads, many thanks for this one! I am this "always forgets his filters dude" and wish I had known this before! 🙃 it is also useful for my 14 mm which isn't capable of being combined with filters. Thank you again!

Waterproof footwear has really allow me to get shots I used t o miss.

Thank you for the video. You showed me something new, thank you. BTW I liked the B&W image better, but both are very nice photographs

tnanks for this interesting trick

Great work my friend !! Really liked the foreground stones in the image ..

My favorite is the black and white

I love the black and white image the best. Great job Mads as always.

It would be interesting to compare your final shots with one taken with, say, a Big Stopper Lee Filter.

Thank you for this. I have avoided using lenses that don't filter well, (like your Sony 12-24). With this awesome technique I can now use my bulbous wide primes for long exposure work! You're a genius!

The color was my favourite, I liked the foreground element. Seems like a lot of work versus using a filter though eh?

They‘re all so nice but the b&w is my favorit too. So cool to learn how to take a l.e. without a nd. Thanks.

Absolutely gorgeous, well done!

Mads, I've liked most the vertical, coloured photo, with two stones in the foreground and the horizontal B&W.

Very useful information and explanation. Thank you. Difficult for me to decide which image I like best, but I do like them.

Horizontal B&W shot is great.

Thanks for the explanation, the B&W is my favorite...

A good tutorial and some beautiful images. I have played around with this technique myself (although I do prefer using an ND filter). The tip about extending the bottom tripod legs sections is a good one but you have to be careful as these thinner legs are also less stable than the thicker upper leg sections. I tend to use a small extension of the bottom legs and then some of the middle section (depending on conditions). I also like to check the alignment of the images before stacking as, even when being very careful, there can sometimes be a tiny shift in the camera position. Auto-Align layers normally saves this. Thanks for sharing

Thanks for the info.

Learnt some new PS techniques. I liked the BW image. Thanks

Great video. Thanks for sharing your process.

Cool technique! Thanks for sharing. Preferred the black and white as it fit the scene a little more. Plus the leading line of the beach worked well.

Great, i forgot that one! thanks for remember this.

Thanks, a very nice trick to solve when forgetting to bring the filters! Used to stacking and masking to compensate for the dynamic range of my camera which is not really the best

Isn't it how long exposure works in smartphone cameras ? I love B&W long exposure with smootth water, but your first shot (vertical composition), with the 2 rocks, the blue tint and the texture in the water is very beautiful !

Gracias