23 Moving Images of Flowing Water

A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt

Water, especially that which is flowing, is a popular subject for photographers. You get to make artistic choices about whether to freeze or blur the water, and to what degree. That will affect how the final image looks.

Take a look at these images of flowing water and see how the photographers chose to capture the scene.

By David Kingham

By Darlene Hildebrandt

By little shiva

By Christopher

By Kamil Porembi?ski

By ~ lzee. . . mostly out

By James Bremner

By Nick Kenrick

By Andi Campbell-Jones

By Andy Rothwell

By Crouchy69

By Christian Barrette

By Billy Wilson

By Neil Howard

By Christian Ronnel

By Dirk Dittmar

By Nicole Quevillon

By Jonathan

By Marjan Lazarevski

By John Fowler

By Susanne Nilsson

By Louis du Mont

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Darlene Hildebrandt is an educator who teaches aspiring amateurs and hobbyists how to improve their skills through articles on her site Digital Photo Mentor, online photography classes, and travel tours to exotic places like Morocco and India. To help you at whatever level you're at she has two email mini-courses. Sign up for her free beginner OR portrait photography email mini-course here. Or get both, no charge!

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My Contribution…..
Von Will

Photographing flowing water is always a challenge to really capture what you have in mind. https://www.flickr.com/photos/phyguy/
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my waterfall pictures:
Wayne Werner

My flowing water: https://goo.gl/photos/W6485KYUAu8rHoYH7
Marcus Wrey

Dartmoor waterfall – no tripod on me so had to go hand held trying to be a human tripod !!
walwit

You did it fine, but let mi add that some pictures above seem to have some post-processing that yours do not (see Andy and Andi).
Gerry Wynkoop

Beach St Martins
Gerry Wynkoop

Arenal Costa Rica
pete guaron

Great to see that not all of the images blur the water – some photographers seem to think “blur” is the only way to approach shots of moving water, but there’s a lot to be said for freezing the movement, too. Maybe both is right, and excluding either of them is not?
OldPom

The juxtapositioning of images blurred and images crisp certainly convinces me to continue with shorter exposures and a ‘natural’ rather than homogenised image . When my eyes start seeing blurred skiers, blurred cars, and blurred birds in flight, than I may re-consider. Water moves. Water has ripples, waves, splashes. It is not a vapour hanging like a fog over stones or impinging on a beach. Art perhaps, but not realism.
Imtiaz Kanga

imtiaz@kalpataru.com
Gary

Owen Sound Ontario waterfalls
Joel

Sabino Canyon Pool
Col Photo

I like photographing the ebb and flow of water in its natural form. A few years ago white “milky” water was all the rage, its now boring to me. Does anybody else share my opinion.

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