On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:45:02AM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote: > Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On 11-09-06 9:15 AM, Bipin Gupta wrote: > >> A technically great HDR type shot. Truly a bit different& appreciated. > >> But may I add some comments? Please do take it constructively. > >> Flowing water should look like flowing water, the way nature meant it > >> to be. It should not be made to look like gas tumbling down instead of > >> water. > >> Of late I have seen too many good waterfall photos overdone to look > >> quite artificial. > >> Bipin. > > > >With respect Bipin, if we all stuck to portraying images of the world > >"as nature intended it to be" we'd first of all have to stop framing > >still pictures, except perhaps of rocks. Nature does not stand still for > >anyone. > > I also used to dislike the long-shutter speed water look but I've come > to believe that it yields a picture that actually represents *more* > accurately our memory of the original scene. When you recall a > waterfall you can never place each individual droplet or rivulet of > water. > > Of course, I also still enjoy fast shutter speed shots - i just > appreciate them now as being *less* like "reality" rather than more.
Well, as in all things, you can go too far either way. I don't shoot waterfalls using a shutter speed of 1/8000 sec to freeze every last droplet of water. But neither do I use shutter speeds of 1/10 of a second (or even slower); that just shows most of the water as a uniform blur, without any of the sparkle and reflections off the ripples in the surface. Exactly what shutter speed this translates to depends somewhat on the scale of the waterfall (and, thus, the speed at which the water moves). But when I've bracketed on shutter speed I've found that 1/30 sec is a good starting point. Perhaps this is because this matches the appearance of moving water on film or television; or perhaps it's just a personal preference. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
