Cloudy, Spring, Weekend=Waterfall Shots.
Here I am at the bottom of he falls with my new golf cart umbrella holder attached to my tripod. It works pretty slick.
Below: ISO 400, 34mm, f/10, 25 sec w/10 stop ND Filter.
Below: ISO 400, 34mm, f/7.1, 25 sec. w/Hoya Infrared filter.
Below: ISO 400, 34mm, f/7.1, 25 sec. w/10 stop ND filter.
Below: ISO 640, 19mm, f/10, 5 sec.
First rule of thumb, always have your camera ready. Just as I reached the brook I was head to head with a mink. It was a cold, but bright morning. The shot below was taken with a 10-Stop ND filter. ISO 400, 34mm, f/9.0, 30.0 sec.
These last two shots were taken with a IR filter and converted to B&W.
Both shots: ISO 250, 10mm, f/5.6, 10.0 sec.
The Great Brook (Blood Brook) follows Rte 120 and flows past Storrs Hill into the Mascoma River. A favorite spot of mine. Sunny day, so all shots were takem with 10 stop ND Filter and 30 second exposures.
I finally got a 10 stop ND Filter. A ND Filter filters out light. When using a 10 stop ND Filter you need to extend the exposure time by 1000. The first shot of the the merging of the White River into the Connecticut River was 229.0 seconds long with a f25 aperture. The second shot with a wider aperture of f16 was only 121.0 seconds. With an a ND filter you are able to do things like take daytime shots that look like it is at night, remove people from a shot, and interesting effects with moving objects like water or clouds.
