Waterfalls, fast or slow ?

[eeyore]

I've just got back from yorkshire with upwards of a thousand watterfall shots, reviewing my images I cant decide if I prefer the long exposures with silky water or the frozen crystals efect achieved with fast shutter speeds. What do other people think ?

[Boddie]

Let us see a few. I must admit I usually like the silky long exposure.

[Oy]

Slow & silky for me

[Jonny]

I agree with Boddie............Can you put up a photo of each so we can see...............Jon

[matt_xyz]

It's often claimed that the long exposure effect is a bit of a cliche, but I still like it. At times though a very fast shutter speed can also be effective, particularly when it freezes spray and fine water droplets.

How's that for sitting on the fence?

Matt

[eeyore]

Unfortunately my camera had acquired a bit of grot slap in the middle of the sensor so some of my best shots have a black speck slap in the middle. I have a hot date with photoshop to sort this out then I will put a thumbnail of each on here and some of my best ones in the galley too.

I also got some shots of a dipper at janets foss so one of those might make its way into the gallery too

[nightshade]

Slow and silky sounds right but crystals show the power

[eeyore]

as promised one of each to show the difference, personally I prefer the slow one in this instance, What do you folks think ?

[Mark43]

Originally Posted by eeyore

as promised one of each to show the difference, personally I prefer the slow one in this instance, What do you folks think ?

Agree...the slow one looks much better for this particular fall.

[eeyore]

It was tricky to get fast ones as the light wasn't great particularly in the gorges and valleys where most of the falls I went to were located, I got lots of slow but not many comparable fast shots.

[eeyore]

Mind you I think the fast shots look better when you are close up ( these two were taken at wainwath falls swaledale in blazing sunshine and I had trouble getting the slowone slow enough I think it is 1/20 as I had stupidly left my polariser at home)

[cherrybee]

Originally Posted by eeyore

as promised one of each to show the difference, personally I prefer the slow one in this instance, What do you folks think ?

Well I am awkward I like both

[Kev Lewis]

Originally Posted by eeyore

Mind you I think the fast shots look better when you are close up ( these two were taken at wainwath falls swaledale in blazing sunshine and I had trouble getting the slowone slow enough I think it is 1/20 as I had stupidly left my polariser at home)

Put a couple of x3 ND filters in your bag and you will never have a problem getting slow speeds again lol

I much prefer slow, even to the point of misty rather than just silky

[nightshade]

I like them both silky isbeauty but foaming is powerful!