quote: | Originally posted by clay
well the falls/water looks like crap. probably too long exposure then. joss' seems more correct (even though out of focus). yours almost looks like 2005 gaming printscreen (water was shitty in games earlier). the trees and the grass also looks weird. im quite sure you have some filters on there. |
No, its pretty clear its a long exposure causing the effects you see, its just annoying because the falls create a lot of mist, which you know, it being water, does all sorts of crazy things with light, some good, some bad in terms of the photons reaching the sensor. A ND filter (lens filter, like on the physical camera body) allows you to take extremely long exposures in broad daylight, so the effect is sort of strange. That being said, the first one looks like it has water droplets on the filter (even if it didn't thats the impression), which gives it a "messy" feeling that doesn't sit well with me.
Snoqualmie Falls is tough to shoot though. Honestly my favorite photos of it are from above (which requires a plane or a helicopter, not exactly weekend trip fare) or is shot from the west side of the falls further north, or further north at river level. That requires a bit of hiking though and if you've never been there you need to plan it out a bit (its not technical hiking, you just need to know where to drive to and park, and where the trails are).
Personally I think that an ultra long exposure of the falls is not going to be that pretty. The lip of the falls is really rough and in mid summer the flow rate over it is not high enough to cover the entire fall, which makes it get cornered down in the draw in the center. The real majesty of Snoqualmie is in the late-winter/early-spring when the snow melt in the mountain is causing the river to surge. The falls become so violent looking, its an amazing demonstration of the raw power (lol) of nature. The noise alone is staggering. A long exposure of any sort kind of tames the falls, and I've never really liked them that much, it makes it look weaker. There are better falls for that in the region (not really that close to Snoqualmie though). Multnomah Falls, east of Portland on the Columbia River gorge is a good falls for ultra long exposures. It is a tall skinny double fall, a usually placid middle pool between them. You can get the horse-tail effect really well on it. There are also a number of other falls up and down the river too that are amazing (you do have to hike to some of them though, including wading through water in tiny little cuts in rock).
Oh well, I know Citric just got her ND filter and this is experimentation, and running water is pretty much the best thing to experiment with long exposures in daylight. I have been thinking about getting an ND filter for a few months, but my interest in it is more for use in low light, giving an even longer exposure for certain things where I want more time to fuck around or have something occur (or filter out lower intensity light, for example fireworks, filter out the streamer, just get the burst, etc).
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