Argyll waterfall

[KMRennie]

Taken on Saturday. Trying to get the shutter speed that shows some motion but retains detail is the challenge. I realise that this style of image is way out of fashion but so what. Ken

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Well, I like it.
But Peter Ait would like each and every droplet to be in sharp focus and frozen in time.   

[kers]

Like it and especially the contrast - the dark colours..

[JNB_Rare]

Trying to get the shutter speed that shows some motion but retains detail is the challenge.

I think you nailed it. I don't care if it's in or out of fashion. It fits this subject, IMO.

[Jeremy Roussak]

Taken on Saturday. Trying to get the shutter speed that shows some motion but retains detail is the challenge. I realise that this style of image is way out of fashion but so what. Ken

Sod fashion. That's good. Perhaps a slightly shorter exposure might have been better, but it's marginal.

Jeremy

[stamper]

Still in fashion imo. A fine image.

[KMRennie]

Thanks everyone. Positive comments keep me going. Ken

[RSL]

Here's another one, KM: For a waterfall picture it's pretty darn good.

[francois]

In fashion or not, I don't care but I like it a lot.
Well done.

[BAB]

I like it I would love it if you happen to have a few exposures that you could blend together to make the pond ethereal ,the water fall smooth and the spray in tack focus.

[KMRennie]

Strange that you mention in BAB. This iamge is actually 3 shots merged. The fall @ 1/4s; the splash on the rocks @1/13s; the water below the fall @1.3s. I had the idea while there of experimanting as you said. Unfortunately I hadn't worked out how nice it would be and by the time that I had the sun had come round the edge of the hill and was both starting to light up the water with dappled light and shining on me which would had caused flare if I had removed the lens hood and started to fit my Lee ND filters. I could return but it is a 250 mile round trip but I have it stored.
Anyway I had a play with more aggressive sharpening and taking all of my "pool" shots and applying some median filtering to try and soften the pool and here it is. It looks nicer to my eyes but it may be just the increase in contrast and sharpening seducing me and in the long run it may look overblown. Any comments?
Ken

[MattBurt]

I really like it and the second one even more. I'm pretty unfashionable (just ask my wife or son) so those matters do not concern me.

[luxborealis]

Fabulous work, Ken. An ideal blend given what you shot.

Could you further smooth out the water below the falls using a blur? If not, it's still a keeper.

[KMRennie]

Thanks Matt and Terry. I have already blurred the pool a little any more and it turns into a mush. I have hundreds of shots of the bottom of different falls and could easily clone one in which would probably look better but would bother me. I don't mind juggling with multiple images taken in the same location but it would feel "wrong" to add something from another location just to make a slightly better image.
I did use the bottom of the falls in an AV presentation and I like the cropped version as you can start to see the detail in the rocks. I hope that printing it large will allow me the same detailed view.

[luxborealis]

This last one is, perhaps, the most beautiful of the three.

[Jeremy Roussak]

This last one is, perhaps, the most beautiful of the three.

Not perhaps.

Jeremy

[KMRennie]

Thanks again Terry and Jeremy. I did try printing the whole image and it has no snap. It could be my printing technique or that too much of the detail lies at the extremes of the tonal scheme and doesn't look good on paper. Something more for me to learn perhaps. Ken