Getting Carried Away

Thankyou for your comments.

In a site where waterfall shots and running water shots have become common currency, this is highly original. It has a peacefulness and an integrity almost as an abstract all of its own. Congratulations. Regards. John

Love the colors and the use of speed

Simply beautiful!

Nice job Hanna, very artistic. 6/6

Densly integrating many photographic skills.

 

 

can hear it running almost. well done

Very nice composition and water " situation" you have cought Hanna. I like the caption as well. Pnina

I'm with John - well done and original for a soft water shot.

.6/6.

Wow, Lady, this is magnificent. Absolutely eye-catching, dreamy, and original for its genre. Well done!

Thankyou all so much for your response. It was the leaves here that really caught my eye. I was surprised at how steady they were despite the full flow. I was trying to portray the speed of the water as I saw it...not sure if that worked.

Fabulous execution!

Excellent capture, Hannah.

Beautiful time exposure, Hanna. I especially like the water pattern and the concealled leaves. Really is terrific. ^_^

you really have captured the flow well, and the submerged leaves just tell their own story, as steadfast a the rocks below

7/7 for me, really well executed and nice composition and colors

I like how the leaves have a kind of reflective and waxy look to them. I wonder if this kind of look could be enhanced even more. What kind of lighting did you use? Can you remember?

 

Thanks!

 

Dave

Thanks again to everyone for your interest.

 

David, I'm not sure how to achieve the effect you mean but you're more than welcome to try it yourself, and I'd be interested to see the results. As for the lighting, I'm pretty sure it was just ambient light. I rarely use flash because I like the natural look. However, I do vaguely remember using fill flash on one or two shots on this day and it might just have been here. Sorry I'm so vague...must be the blonde in me.

Laughing... I was wondering about the lighting conditions i.e. was it overcast, light from the left, above, from the right, etc... When I'm shooting scenes like this sometimes the lighting direction can make a difference in the clarity/quality of being able to see through the water--something a polarizer can help, but only to a certain degree.

Blush...well, you did say 'use'. It was a fairly bright day but the fall is facing north, so most of the glare problem was on the level water just before the drop, hence the tight crop.

a beautiful captured autumn scene...very well composed/ good choice of shutterspeed

I like it very much. There is just too many water blurred photos that say nothing. This one is like leaves in a piece of amber. Beautiful.

As far as I remeber from my hydrology it is the laminar water flow (seen in the bright lines in the water) which are holding the leaves in place. The opposite is turbulent flow where they would be long gone. Apart from that 'not everyone knows that' moment, this evokes a real sense of the scene. I can hear the water!

Thanks Hanna. Facing North, so no directional lighting at all, except on top. Thanks for the tip!