Waterfalls near Seattle (pics)

Hope people enjoy these. The first is from this past weekend.

Olallie State Park



Talapus Lake Trail


Both of these are from a Canon 5D and a Sigma 15 to 30 zoom.

 

Lovely....

 

They do look amazing!

 

Amazing views. You have the photographer's eye for that - I'm sure you know it, just wanted to point it out.

 

nICE PIcs... thanks for sharing

 

You've got some expensive gear.

What setting do you have it on to take the first pic?

 

Thanks, everyone, I'm glad people like them.

For Kevinn, both of these were shot in Av mode, around f/16, and probably 50 ASA. That put the shutter speed around a couple seconds.

Here's a new one from about eight hours ago ... would have posted earlier, but my computer has been giving me a lot of trouble lately, kept crashing earlier.

 

great pctures.. did you edit this images? coz the water seems cloudy..?

 

Nice pics, lovely waterfall

 

That comes from the long shutter speed. People might remember using faster film speeds for dinner parties because they don't want the pictures of everyone coming out blurry. It's really the same thing here; the water is moving while the shutter is open, so it blurs. But the way the water is moving, it's a sustained pattern, always the same, unlike a person moving a little to one side. So it results in a really beautiful blur, cloudy, silky, really soft white.

This type of photography is an example of why tripods are so important, even when more and more cameras and lenses have IS built in.

 

Wow! wish that were the view off my back porch. excellent photos

 

Beautiful photographs! Well done indeed

 

I have a strange feeling one doesn't need to be a photographer to shoot such cool pictures. Fantastic views, beautiful colours, and lovely scenes no matter which angle you take them from. What else is needed, nature is truly amazing...

Great job, Forrest!

 

nice! need to check it out next week when I'm off dial up and back on DSL!! sweet camera

 

Here's one more waterfall for everybody's viewing enjoyment, from earlier today. This was shot through a 50 mm f/1.4 instead of the Sigma ultrawide zoom:

Twin Falls


Apologies to everyone on dialup. The detail in the leaves and branches makes the file pretty heavy.

 

did you bracket the exposure for the water? I know it's tough to nail it but it looks a tad blown out with the water the way that it is.

 

The colors look pretty crisp, no photoshop work done either eh?

The 1st one is my favorite!

 

Oh, there's plenty of Photoshop work done to every photo on my site. ( And I'm "hotlinking" them here. ) Just like in the old days you would shoot onto a negative, and then develop it, or have somebody else do that, I shoot these in RAW mode, set the white balance during the conversion, adjust the curves, sometimes the remix the channels ( RGB ) slightly, dodge and burn... I look at photography as an art; the camera records data, and then you take the raw measurements and present them in their best light. Just like you use a slow shutter speed to give the illusion that the water is something like a smooth glass column.

Tim is right, the waterfall is a bit overexposed in the last one. I'm used to doing this type of photography with a wide angle lens, so I don't have a neutral density filter for my 50 mm. I should go back over the RAW files and see if I can improve that a little, but shooting at ISO 50, you tend to loose some tonal range on the high end.

Anyway, I'm glad people like them!

 

yep, RAW rules

I do about the same to all my stuff...only problem is that I get bored and don't really spend enough time on what should be the true keepers...I tend to 'keep' too many of my shots...bad tim!!

ahhh, right the ND.. Canon 50/1.4? I have the same one...love the Bokeh! Great lens.

Well, I'll let you slide this time since you didn't have a ND for the 50

I just got a ND3.0 for my 24-105...10 stops!!! it's righteous!

keep up the great work!

 

Very beautiful pictures!