Waterfalls

[Craftysnapper]

From the archive and reprocessed.

 

Weller Waterfalls

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Pistyll Rhaeadr Waterfalls

 

[Black Pearl]

Love them - just my sort of images and perfect processing.

[ChrisLumix]

Not my cup of tea. I prefer water with motion blur. Sorry.

[NannyFerret]

They remind me of trails of flaxon hair. Lovely!

[Leon]

I love milky water but I think nature shots should be in colour personally...

[kev7d]

Both suit my eyes but I particularly like the composition of number 1.

[JHFoto]

I agree with Leon.........................

[Guest]

Thank you BP.

 

No problem Chris I personally dislike frozen water. 

 

Thank you Tina.

 

Thank you Leon, as to yours an JH's comment about colour, both were taken in February in gorges where there is little light and at a time of year when the vegetation is a dirty brown colour so mono was the obvious choice when colour is lacking and it's about form and tones.

 

Thank you Kevin.

[ChrisLumix]

No problem Chris I personally dislike frozen water. 

 

Not sure why you've frozen it here then? To milk, I mean.

[Guest]

Not sure why you've frozen it here then? To milk, I mean.

All images are frozen it time Chris, but I'm fairly sure you know what I meant by frozen (fast shutter speed) as opposed to milky (slow shutter speed).

 

But I'm quickly learning your a kind of must have the last word guy.

[ChrisLumix]

All images are frozen it time Chris, but I'm fairly sure you know what I meant by frozen (fast shutter speed) as opposed to milky (slow shutter speed).

 

But I'm quickly learning your a kind of must have the last word guy.

 

It's not a question of the last word. It's just that - to my mind at any rate - 'milky water' seems to be a misunderstanding of what motion blur actually is? You see, I wasn't reading photographic magazines when this fashion was latterly adopted, but I do clearly remember Amateur Photographer giving advice in the 70s and 80s about how to get motion blur into water, as opposed to 'freezing' it with a fast shutter speed. I remember them saying that rivers and streams were best shot at around 1/15 or 1/30 second, and I tried this, and indeed it gave a very satisfactory motion blur. 

 

The current fashion for using very slow shutter speeds, simply has the effect of 'freezing' water again, but this time into a solid white curtain rather than individual drops. But it still doesn't seem to convey motion, as it's just solid white.

 

I realise I'm in a very definite minority nowadays, but I shall go on banging this drum, last word or no last word!!

[Guest]

I personally think that moving water in a two dimensional image is the one of  the very few subjects it is impossible to give a real feeling of movement in whatever the shutter speed, just  images of varying degrees of freezing the movement.

[ChrisLumix]

I personally think that moving water in a two dimensional image is the one of  the very few subjects it is impossible to give a real feeling of movement in whatever the shutter speed, just  images of varying degrees of freezing the movement.