First Snow/Last Shot
by Wayne Jones
Happy New Year! The tree is gone from my living room, and I drank the the last of the eggnog last night, so it's time to take a break from editing over a thousand holiday pictures and get back to NPN.
This is a secluded unnamed waterfall near home. I rarely see it in winter because it's impossible to park along the roads in the area once the snowbanks build up. So this is from the first snow accumulation of the year, before it got too deep to pull off the road. It's a 2.5 second exposure; I don't normally use such long exposures, but this was after sunset, with heavy clouds and light snow. Fortunately, there is enough structure in this water to prevent it from looking like a thick milkshake oozing downstream. (The snow in the air disappeared during my 2.5 second exposure.)
Canon 5D3; Canon 24-105mm.
2.5 sec. @ f/11; ISO 640
Note: The level on my camera says this is perfectly vertical, but the rock layers are tilted, and the water is falling every which way. Does it look tilted?
Comments
9 commentsNick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI
I like the comp a lot as the water guides you up the hill.
I would brighten the water a tad and cool it off, it appears a bit muddy to me next to the white snow.
A nice pleasing winter image....
--P