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At last - waterfall with blurred water!

Started Jun 14, 2016 | Photos thread
EarthQuake Veteran Member • Posts: 3,240
Re: At last - waterfall with blurred water!

One reason why I love my EM1, unless I want really long shutter speeds (over 1 second) I can do these sort of shots handheld. I've been meaning to try some really slow ones, but whenever I get to locations like this I never tend to have a tripod or ND filters with me.

I like to take a variety of shots at different shutter speeds, firstly, because my wife yells at me when I make them too blurry, and secondly, because I find that selecting a good shutter speed really depends on the subject. How close you are, how fast the water is moving, what is the focal point, etc.

Heres a few of the same framing at different speeds:

a bit too slow for my tastes

this is the one I used

shutter speed is too fast here, making the foamy water look static

Heres some more at various shutter speeds as well

I had a slower version of this, but it looked much better with the bubbles frozen in clear detail

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