Had a wander across to Pontneddfechan to the Eildir trail to have a try with the waterfalls and experimenting with different shutter speeds to maintain some texture and detail to the water, this image was taken at 1/5 sec which I seemed to prefer as any slower just washed out the detail. I had real difficulties with the harsh lighting as by the time I reached this waterfall it was mid-day and had to really bring up the shadows with masks, I did try bracketing but when I merged the individual image in Lightroom it left the water looking odd with strange details which did not look natural at all.
I'm sure this was click-bait :-) Most of the images on the link are far superior to this one. For me the one's with even a snippet of sky don't work so well as the eye is drawn there, as is the case here. The ones without sky are superb, especially the one with the bridge/walkway.
Cheers, Des :-)
I checked through a few of my waterfall pictures and I think the water speed capture is definitely a personal view as I have used from1/500 s to 0.3 S. I tend to prefer around 1/15 s myself.
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Had a wander across to Pontneddfechan to the Eildir trail to have a try with the waterfalls and experimenting with different shutter speeds to maintain some texture and detail to the water, this image was taken at 1/5 sec which I seemed to prefer as any slower just washed out the detail. I had real difficulties with the harsh lighting as by the time I reached this waterfall it was mid-day and had to really bring up the shadows with masks, I did try bracketing but when I merged the individual image in Lightroom it left the water looking odd with strange details which did not look natural at all.
If interested then further examples from the day can be seen on my portfolio Page - https://robbullingham.myportfolio.com/web-waterfalls
Cheers
Rob
I'm sure this was click-bait :-) Most of the images on the link are far superior to this one. For me the one's with even a snippet of sky don't work so well as the eye is drawn there, as is the case here. The ones without sky are superb, especially the one with the bridge/walkway.
Cheers, Des :-)
I checked through a few of my waterfall pictures and I think the water speed capture is definitely a personal view as I have used from1/500 s to 0.3 S. I tend to prefer around 1/15 s myself.