Dan, I really like the effect of the faster shutter speeds, especially in the fourth one.
I also like the set overall! The people add scale rather than being a distraction. A polarizer might have helped tame the glare from the foliage, especially in the later ones. Cheers, Rick > On Mar 14, 2020, at 10:13 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks to those who commented on my Maui waterfalls. > > I recognize that many, if not most, serious photographers favor long > exposures when shooting streams and waterfalls. The effect is certainly > appealing and artistic. For some reason, I have always favored short > exposures because those images look more like what my eye sees. I also > like the patterns and textures falling water reveals when captured in short > exposures. Different strokes . . . . > > In any event, some of these images required that I stand in the middle of a > narrow one-lane bridge, leaving little time to set up, as the Road to Hana > has local traffic as well as quite a few tourist vans and rental cars, some > driven by visitors of questionable ability. > > For those not familiar with it, the infamous "Hana Highway" is a 64.4 > mile-long (103.6 km) stretch of Hawaii Routes 36 and 360 that connects > Kahului to the town of Hana in east Maui. Although Hana is only about 52 > miles (84 km) from Kahului, an uninterrupted car-trip takes about 2.5 hours > to drive, since the highway is very windy, narrow, and passes over 59 > bridges, of which 46 are only one lane wide. There are approximately 620 > curves along the Route, almost all of it through lush, tropical rainforest. > Many of the concrete and steel bridges date back to 1910. The return trip, > along the "backside of Maui," is like driving over a narrow dirt and gravel > washboard. It is not really dangerous, but can be somewhat exhausting. I > hit takes an additional 40 minutes getting to Kahului from where we stay, > and another 40 getting back There is much to see and photograph, and I make > the trip once every 3-5 years. > > Dan Matyola > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* > > > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:21 PM Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> A collection of some of the appealing waterfalls of East Maui. along the >> infamous Road to Hana. >> >> >> http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2020/3/13/maui-waterfalls >> >> K-5 IIs, smc DA 18-135 >> Comments and criticism are invited and appreciated. >> >> Dan Matyola >> *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery >> <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* >> >> > -- > 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. -- 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.
