Whitewater

After I took the big scene photos seen in yesterday's post, I turned my attention to little vignettes. I thought to capture water flowing around or by stable objects such as boulders and riverbanks, but the results were so-so.

Here they are the first two despite my reservations, both converted to b&w.

They ↑ were taken from the trail bridge. We then made our way over to the little bridge, where the river is extremely fast-flowing and it great volume, not little vignettes. It was truly whitewater over there. but I mainly shot from beside the bridge and not on it. Once again, not thrilled with the outcomes, I put different filters on these in edit looking for a satisfactory result.

It turns out that the next photo of just the fast-flowing water is my favourite, more that the previous flowing-by-things photos, above. I guess it pays to try different shots. Aside from the waves, I appreciate the colours that were captured.

Back to the bigger and higher trail bridge. While I was taking some of the other photos, Sue had spotted this ever-changing cascade by one of the bridge supports  The cascade kept changing from sparse to full and in between. The first photo shows a half-full cascade, the second is full. It kept changing, I like these as well, for the colour is pleasant to my eyes, and I don't mind how the misty whitewater to the right is overexposed and free of texture.

So, it turned out that the photos that I most wanted to take were my least favourites ones and vice versa.

I know that the next section will be almost meaningless to most of you, but Mulewings, Roentare and Spare Parts might like to read it.

I should say that the whole shoot was a bit of a struggle to remember how to work the camera as well as I would have liked. For one thing, I haven't used the camera much lately, and beyond that I seldom use a tripod, but it was needed to achieve relatively slow shutters speeds of around 1/5th of a second. That's about the speed I needed to get the blurry motion that I wanted. Secondly, I was using a variable neutral density filter to allow me to use a slow shutter because it was actually fairly bright out, and that was just one other almost unfamiliar thing to contend with, especially in changing light, depending on where I was pointing the camera. Third thing, and this really bugged me, was forgetting to attach my tripod collar to the lens, so I had to put the actual camera in the holder and that tends to unbalance things when you are using a long lens. In this case I was using a 100-400mm lens. Although, I used the full 400mm zoom in yesterday's post, the longest reach in this series was 325mm in the very first photo. The cascade photos were taken at 258mm. The one of just the whitewater was the least zoomed, at 181mm.