babbling brooke
small stream myself and my wife found, we had to stop for a picture
small stream myself and my wife found, we had to stop for a picture
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May, 2016Views
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I was on a hike with my wife and camera to see an iceberg. Walking back, she had to stop and feed our child so we found a bench by a small water pool, this pool had a trickling stream through it. I tried to take a few shots from shore, without much luck. Grabbing my tripod I straddled three or four large rocks into the pool and set the tripod so that it would look up the stream. Only a foot off the ground, and the water I set the camera to a longer exposure, and low iso, and took several shots. I was very suprsied when my micro stream turned out looking like a great waterfall!Time
This was shot a little past 4 pm.Lighting
The sky was overcast which I find works better for these sorts of shots, a direct light often shoots shadows or glare that moves with the wind/stream and in a long exposure, creates some rather negative effects.Equipment
Camera at the time was a t5 rebel, with a 50 mm lens. The Tripod was a stock cameron, from Henrys.Inspiration
This was total spur of the moment, I love water shots, and seeing as I could get UP the stream and the small 6-9" falls in with great effect, it made something small look very large and I liked it.Editing
I used light room to add some clarity and bring out the colors, deepening the greens a little and bringing the orange and browns in the rocks out.In my camera bag
Now-a-days I use a Canon 7d mkII. I keep a 70-300, a sigma 17-70 macro, two canon primes 24 and 50 mm, as well as a 10-18 EFS lense from canon for architecture and real estate.Feedback
Patience. find your center frame but don't be afraid to move around, look for the depth, and foreground in the same shot. Especially with landscape I find there needs to be something both close and far to entice the eye into the image. I love low depth of field shots for this reason, but I took struggle with a balance in landscape shots with finding that magical fstop that will give me a feeling of depth but keep a clear image.
