My best Somersby Falls Photos

[Mike Salway]

Back in February 2009, myself and 2 friends (Andrew Catsaitis and Andrew Murrell) met up at Sommersby Falls on the Central Coast of NSW for a photo expedition after a lot of heavy rain in recent days.

Only a month earlier, the three of us were again at Sommersby Falls, but this photo session was much better – the light was brilliant, the falls were flowing with much more water after a few days of heavy rain, and it even started raining heavily on us while we were there. It made for some tricky shots at times, trying to juggle the umbrella to keep the camera dry, while framing and focusing and at times, being almost knee deep in water!

For some reason I didn’t finish processing these at the time, and now, 10 months later, I finally made the time to finish processing these – and I’m glad I did. These are my best ever photos of Sommersby Falls.

All photos were taken with my Canon 20D and Sigma 17-70mm lens, and they are all 3-shot bracketed (+2/0/-2) HDR (tonemapped). Processed using Photomatix and Photoshop CS4.

There's 24 photos in total - to see them all (and to see 1200px wide less compressed versions) please visit:

Somersby Falls Photo Shoot after Heavy Rain

Thanks for looking. Comments welcome.

[Hayward Taylor]

Hello Mike - these are very well photographed .. nice pp work too ... all very nice

[beachcomber]

I compliment you and your two colleagues on some outstanding pictures. I have viewed the extended selection via the given link and enjoyed them all, thank you

[Ella1267]

These are beautiful....very nice set...keep posting.

[fstopMike]

Very nice silky smooth water, Mike. these are very well done.

[R lake]

Wow....that's all I can say. Need I say more?

[leonaashlee]

You're right Mike, these are so wonderful...excellent work. I love them

[Mike Salway]

Thanks all - I appreciate your comments.