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Last year at a street fair I met a photographer who is into nature/scenics photography and sells framed prints of his work.
I curiously asked him what kind of photos sell the most. "Waterfalls", he said.
Unfortunately my skill and dedication for nature photography is not nearly
as good as his, but I am fascinated by waterfalls as well.
Probably you have seen pictures of soft flowing water like this,
and wonder how to create such "Angelhair" soft silky look.
The trick to make the water look like this is to use a camera with manual control,
put it on a sturdy tripod, and shoot with a
slow shutter speed that will blur the water.
A shutter speed of about one second is about optimum for most cases.
A neutral density (ND) filter will be useful for that.
If you use faster shutter speeds, that will freeze the motion of the water,
which is also interesting but less appealing.
On the other hand if the exposure time is too long, you will probably
loose all the details in the flow structure.
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Both of the pictures were shot in the northern part of Oregon state along the
Columbia river gorge. Spring is probably the best time for shooting waterfalls when
the melting snow of the mountains create many small falls along the cliffs.
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Here are the links to the photopages of the past weeks :
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55, 56,
57, 58,
59, 60
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