Every cloud has a silver lining...

Eirebear · 11-05-2009 9:44pm #1

I've just spent a few days in England's beautiful Lake District, where i had planned on taking hundreds of images having not done much "personal" work for quite a while.

Unfortunately the weather conditions were absolutely horrid, with torrential rain making walking hard enough, but causing visibility to be reduced to a couple of feet.

However, it did do me one favour by swelling this little stream which feeds "Tom Gills Falls", and i managed to spen a couple of hours trying some longer exposures of the running water.

Now this is something ive never done before due to a lack of trust in my el cheapo tripod.
Due to the frustration of not getting out and shooting anything i decided to go for it...if the camera got washed up it just forces my hand on the MkII!

Anyway, have a look and see what you think, andy C&C as always appreciated..

dreamer_ire · 11-05-2009 9:57pm

Lovely spot Eire and well done. 3 seems a little busy - am a newbie so don't understand the technicalities but I think the exposure was a little too long for my liking. I really like numbers 2 and 4 but for me 1 is the absolute keeper!

Eirebear · 11-05-2009 10:05pm

Cheers, i reckon 1 is my favourite too...ive just noticed a nasty big black mark on number 3 also...need to fix that!

Danbo! · 11-05-2009 10:08pm

Compostition in #1 is brilliant.

#3 has a spec or something in the waterfall which is a little distracting, could be easily cloned out, otherwise, love it

Now to go buy myself a tripod....

Deliverance XXV · 11-05-2009 10:19pm

Eirebear, did you use any filter to assist with the daylight long exposure as in #3? I was in the same situation today and even with a ND Grad any exposure over 1 second and the sky was ruined.

Eirebear · 11-05-2009 10:24pm

Deliverance XXV wrote: »

Eirebear, did you use any filter to assist with the daylight long exposure as in #3? I was in the same situation today and even with a ND Grad any exposure over 1 second and the sky was ruined.

Nope no filters, i hadnt really expected to be shooting anything because of how the weather had been...we stumbled on the waterfall by accident really.

In saying that, i doubt it would have made too much difference either way, the sky was a blanket of grey the whole time. The long exposure just made it a blanket of white instead!

PaulieC · 11-05-2009 10:30pm

Nice one John, the exposure looks to be spot on. It's certainly not easy to get the water exposed just right, well done...

Eirebear · 11-05-2009 10:36pm

cambo_gueno wrote: »

Nice one John, the exposure looks to be spot on. It's certainly not easy to get the water exposed just right, well done...

Cheers.

Just looking through the rest of the shots...i got a bit carried away after a while and plonked the tripod in the middle of the stream...unfortunately i was waaaayyy to close to the falls, the resulting images have an almost Monet like quality!

Every cloud has a silver lining...

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