Waterfall

[Rajesh A]

This is High Force Waterfall on River Tees in Tees Valey, England. The water gets its color due to erosion of two different types of rocks along the way - whinstone and limestone.



I hope you will enjoy this picture.

Thanks.

Rajesh

 

[fatimaS]

Beautiful photo thank you.

 

[acipriano]

Interesting... did you use a tripod? Looks a little soft...

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[thenickdude]

Shame that the water is so thoroughly blown.

 

[Rajesh A]

I used a tripod to capture this. I agree that it is a bit on the soft side. Thanks for your comments.

Rajesh

 

[steve giron]

Soft ?? Maybe, out of focus.. definitely.

1/15 is all that's usually needed for milky waterfalls. Set for F8/F11 for a wide Depth of Field.

 

[Michael Kirby]

The wind (or something) that makes the green's blur is really unfortunate.

Even if you use a tripod, unless it is a real stable one, you may have to use a timer to take the picture to allow the tripod time to stop shaking after you press the button.

Also, if you could use a straightening tool to make the water flat that would be good.

Finally, I'd make the waterfall in the right side of the picture, not centered (think rule of thirds). With the water leading away it gives you some sense of direction (where is the water going??)

The other comments about the blown highlights are dead on.

Good luck!

Mike

 

[thenickdude]

I think the OP has stopped down to something crazy like f/22 or even f/32, which could explain a lot of the softness (from diffraction). And also the dust spots you can see on the image from the sensor.

You need to use an ND filter so that you can keep your aperture at something reasonable, like f/8 or f/11.

 

[DigiArtist]

This is good! It's a shame that the water isn't that clear. Would have been better if it was. =)
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DigiArtist

 

[Smudger79]

Rajesh, I'm enjoying seeing your pictures of High Force and an earlier thread showing Hadrian's Wall.

I live in the area you see and it's not often you see pictures of these places on here.

Have you been here on holiday? I'd be interested in hearing about where you went and what you thought of the area.

With regards to your High force picture, it looks to me like you may have forgotten to turn the IS off the lens before putting it on the tripod.
But others have already given advice on how to improve the softness.

 

[ju_ju]

Hi love the place and have often fly fished the river with great success. I stay at low way farm camp site and they have camping brans also. I actually prefer low force as it is much less busy. Swimming in the river in places although you have to be carefull is fun but extremely cold. I have also used a coracle on this river. Having been a fisher of many rivers it is usually the peat from the higher moors where the river originates that gives the dark colour to the water. I do also believe this to be the case on the river tee's and it not being the lime stone. I stand corrected if this is not the case but I do believe it to be so. Many thanks

 

[ju_ju]

This is an image taken from Blue bell woods a mile or so down from High Force and very near to Low Force.

 

[Rajesh A]

Smudger79,

Thanks for responding.

I am glad you enjoyed pictures from your neck of the woods. It is a beautiful part of England. I have had the chance to visit/live there and enjoy what nature has to offer aplenty.

I have been very fortunate to visit many countries across the globe over the last 15 years and plan to share the sights on this forum - there are some pictures from Japan that I hope you would have seen. I learn a lot from othe rmembers' comments.

Incidentally, I have also posted a photo of the Gateshead Millennium bridge a couple of days ago.

Cheers.

Rajesh