stony creek waterfall

[squirl033]

some shots of a small waterfall along a nameless stream that flows into the Foss River in the Washington Cascades east of the town of Skykomish...

 

[PerfectlyFlawed]

Those pictures are absolutely amazing!!! Wow!!!

 

[USM IS]

#1 and #3 for me. Very , very nice work.....any exposure info for us greenies.......Mike

 

[ELDUDER]

^^^I'm curious as well. Amazing shots.

 

[Sachphotography]

Were you using any filters. The water looks to hot and not silky smooth.

 

[mom2eight]

Very beautiful, maybe its just me but my eyes want to see more. Do you have any shot a little higher, or less crop at the top of the waterfall?

 

[Guido44]

Great exposures. Great subject too.

Dan

 

[R6_Dude]

awesome shots. any post processing. BTW can you number your pictures?

 

[The Empress]

Wow those are amazing!!!!

 

[squirl033]

#1 and #3 for me. Very , very nice work.....any exposure info for us greenies.......Mike

#1 - lens at 35mm, 4 sec @ f/14
#2 - 35mm, 2.5 sec, f/13
#3 - 28mm, 6 sec, f/13
#4 - 94mm, 2.5 sec, f/13

all shot manual mode, ISO 100 from a tripod with a remote shutter release and an ND4 filter.

R6 dude, yes, there was some post-processing done... mostly some tweaks to brightness and contrast, color saturation and contrast.

 

[squirl033]

Were you using any filters. The water looks to hot and not silky smooth.

yeah, i had a 4ND filter on. i'm not a big fan of "silky smooth" water... looks fake. i prefer to leave some texture.

 

[squirl033]

Very beautiful, maybe its just me but my eyes want to see more. Do you have any shot a little higher, or less crop at the top of the waterfall?

the creek runs under a railroad track about 20 feet upstream from the falls, so i had to crop it a bit tight to keep that out of the photos...

 

[Casshew]

The waterfall is so soft looking, how do you achieve that effect? Gorgeous shots.

 

[squirl033]

The waterfall is so soft looking, how do you achieve that effect? Gorgeous shots.

use a slow shutter. you can get some of the effect with shutter speeds as fast as 1/2 sec., but for the really soft look, between 1 and 4 seconds works best. in daylight, you will need to stop down the aperture quite a bit, and may need a neutral density filter as well to "slow down" the shutter, though a polarizer will work almost as well.

 

[Dominantly]

I like the composition in #3 the most.

When I saw the first one I knew it was shot in WA (then looked at your location for verification).