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a shot of a waterfall, using a slow exposure to capture the water with the milky effect. I decided to compose the photo with the rock as foreground interest. ...
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a shot of a waterfall, using a slow exposure to capture the water with the milky effect. I decided to compose the photo with the rock as foreground interest.
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liambitton
July 30, 2015
Thank you both of you's :) CaptureLife77 water shots are great, I love them aha
brianbaitystudio
July 13, 2018
where was this shot? I feel locations for such photos to be important. I travel a lot and such photos help me choose new places to visit
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Location
This photo was taken at Jesmond Dene, which is a small nature reserve near where I live. For this shot I had to walk into the middle of the river where the water came up to my thighs.Time
On this day i was planning a trip with my spouse to Jesmond Dene. It was the second time I had ever went to this place of serenity, since than Jesmond Dene has became my favourite local place to shoot. On this day we set out around 12pm, once we arrived at Jesmond Dene it was around 130pm, it took another further hour to arrive at the waterfall, so this shot was taken around 230pm.Lighting
There's not much to say about the lighting. The sun was shining brightly and if it wasn't for the shade from the wall of tree's on either side I'm pretty sure this photo would have been a mess due to the harsh lighting the sun was producing. Thank goodness for those tree's.Equipment
This photo was shot on my Canon 500D, with a standard 18-55 3.5/5.6 lens, a manfrotto xprob055 tripod, I also used a Cokin P series polariser and a remote controller.Inspiration
Jesmond Dene's main attraction is this beautiful waterfall, and it being local to where I am persuaded me to get wet and get the best long exposure shot I could get of it. I've always loved the silky white effect of long exposure photography on water, their's just something about it that just makes me want to do more and more long exposures. Maybe it's the idea that in one photo I've captured multiple moments; as a photographer that's my job-to capture moments that matter.Editing
Like most (if not all) landscape photographers I did do some post processing, although this image didn't need much doing, so I just tweaked the colour balance and the contrast, along with the highlights, shadows, exposure and a few other bits. All of this was done using Lightroom.In my camera bag
If I'm honest I'm pretty new in the photography world and haven't got an exceptional amount of equipment, but what i always pack includes my standard kit lens, because it's just so versatile, my canon 70-200 F4L, again extremely versatile with exceptional image quality, and my Sigma 10-20mm for the wide angle stuff (Although I haven't had this lens for long). If I'm going out for landscapes than I always take my Manfrotto xprob055 tripod along with my Cokin P series filters, inducing ND grads and my circular polariser and soon I'll be adding some solid ND filters.Feedback
There really isn't much to it, other than be prepared to get a little wet, and be careful, as your equipment can get swept away by powerful currents (and so can you for that matter). If you are going for long exposures I'd suggest either a 2 stop polariser like the Cokin P series one, or some high quality solid ND filters as this will give you a longer exposure time, allowing you to capture the magnificent silky water.
