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.