Spring Runoff

[Michael_2010]

How dark was it when you took this shot? Or, were you able to use enough ND's to slow the shutter down that much?

[EOBeav]

Originally Posted by Michael_2010

How dark was it when you took this shot? Or, were you able to use enough ND's to slow the shutter down that much?

Light was falling, and I had a circular polarizer on my lens. I could have probably got a little longer shutter time, but I liked the water movement in this.

[SwissJon]

Oh now I like the vertical crop a lot more.. It's a lot more powerful and makes better use of that rock. I think you got the exposure length just right, just long enought to blur the watter, not quite long enough to make the water silky smooth, leaving you with a feeling of power from the rushing water.

Shame you didn't have an ND grad to take care of that sky, but the foreground is great, and to be honest, since the focal point places the rocks firmly as the subject, it's not really important, my eye hangs around the forground interest, using the background to give the forground a sense of place.

[EOBeav]

Jon: Using an ND would help the sky, but this is also a case where I would worry that using one would unnecessarily darken the hillside. I didn't bracket this, but if I had, I would try to do some blending to make it work. But yeah, one reason I hadn't originally processed this one was because the sky was so blown out.

[danbaileyphoto]

Looking at it and comparing the two versions, I definitely like the vertical better. It has better overall balance and use of space. the horizontal seemed to have a slight balance problem with the right side being a bit too heavy on subject matter.

Nice job, really beautiful capture with a great sense of motion!