Allways looking for Inspiration.

Im currently on a drive to take more pictures.

Here is the results of a walk up to Swallow falls in North Wales. Me and the miss's did some scrambling to get to some spots.








Cheers.

 

very nice pics graeme, the last one is milky milky Its really nice up on the Llugwy, the light there is ace

 

Crackin' stuff mate. Really, really nice.

I would have gone for a slightly quicker shutter on the 2nd to capture a little more detail in the water, but it's still an excellent composition.

Love the borders to the photos too. Subtle and very effective. A class-act.

 

Thanks guys, thats really kind of you.

Jase - Get out there mate, NOW!

Cheers mate.

You wouldn't believe how difficult that picture was. It was dark in the basin and getting the right exposure meant long shutter speeds, which gave you said results, so I had to use on camera flash which sorted it.

Slower shutter speed and no flash.


Cheers.

 

No2 is the billy business pal! Love them all but No2 is just so natural 8)

 

A tripod or sturdy rock, switch the camera flash of if using a compact shoot and scoot camera. If using an SLR, small apertures of around f22 will give you slow shutter speeds. Or use shutter priority and control your speed that way. The bualty of digital is a bad shot costs nothing, so take more.

 

I addition to Graeme's and Aaron's good advice you need to consider the lighting conditions.

Shooting on a very bright day with little or no cover/shade will result in too fast a shutter speed to blur movement, even with small apertures (f/16+). A small aperture is required to limit the light hitting the sensor, resulting in longer shutter speeds, which is what we need to blur movement.

If the light is still too excessive to enable long shutter speeds then ND (neutral density) filters will block light without degrading colour or clarity.

The Nikon D40's lowest ISO is 200, where as most other DSLRs are 100,(or even 50) so you're at a slight disadvantage there, as you're exposures will be twice (or 4x) as fast given the same situation.

A tripod is essential really (if you don't have one), as you're aiming for shutter speeds possibly running into seconds and you won't be able to hold the camera still enough.

Also consider using mirror lock-up and self-timer or remote release to help eliminate camera shake further still.

Finally, I apologise if you knew most of that stuff already!

 

nice shot caroline. Sunny days are a killer for slow water shots. Ideally it wil be overcast to get the light down or as george has said get an ND filter to go over the lens.

Also a circular polariser is very good for taking the reflection off the water so you can see the stones underwater