Fast Flowing River Afan, South Wales

[thereyougo!]

A couple from today. I seem to have got my son into a routine of a walk every afternoon. It's a ride for him in his pushchair and if the weather is ok, a ride on a swing in a park. It usually involves 7 - 9 miles of walking, which is good for my health at least! Today it was damp, so he didn't get a swing ride, and I almost didn't grab my camera, but decided to put the camera with the GF32 - 64 attached with the 23 into a Peak Design Everyday 15 that I had bought for half price nd received yesterday. In the end, I'm glad I did. The local river Afan was in full spate, with the hills I was walking on yesterday were under a thick blanket of cloud. It was quite dark, which I was happy about to get the texture on the water that I wanted. I didn't have my tripod with me, but with the excellent IBIS on the Fuji, I wasn't expecting that to be an issue - and it wasn't. I got sharp results on 0.7s.

Fuji GFX100s GF 32 - 64 f/8 1/4 ISO 200 44mm

Afan Rapids 1 by singingsnapper, on Flickr

I leaned the camera on a wall for the below photo:

Same camera and lens f/13 ISO 100 53mm 1.6s

Afan Rapids by singingsnapper, on Flickr





Weirdly the above isn't showing for me on Safari but does show in Chrome...

 

[PJM]

Nice shots. I like how the water looks striated.

 

[K9Kirk]

Nice set, I'd love to surf that on my kayak.

 

[nokk]

love the movement in the water, esp. in the first one. great tones.

 

[stapo49]

I love the look of these. #1 especially.

 

[Space Face]

You can see the power of the water there. Pretty decent for a slow shutter speed handheld.

 

[thereyougo!]

I took another wander along the river today, but used the longer of my two Fuji zooms. Shooting longer handheld did result in more movement, but I still came away with shots, even at half a second handheld at over 100mm. I have steady hands, and I rested my elbow on my knee to support the camera and lens, but this is crazy good IBIS.

GFX100s GF100 - 200 at 124mm f/16 ISO 50 0.5s


River Afan Tele GFX by singingsnapper, on Flickr

114mm f/22 1/5 ISO 50

River Afan Tele GFX 1 by singingsnapper, on Flickr

 

[TATTRAT]

Beautiful shots.