How to Take Creative Waterfall Photos with Harsh Light & Relentless Mist
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2024
- In this video, I share some techniques for photographing waterfalls under harsh light. I also cover how to keep your camera dry and get sharp landscape photography in relentless misty conditions.
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A pleasure as always Michael! Thanks for all of your hard work and for taking us along on your adventures! Cheers!
What I really dig about your vids is how you capture something in the ordinary per se. Meaning you work and extract images out of not having the ideal situations which to me really showcases a very creative mind. Well done!
I love the way you show the initial shot, then walk us through the variations to improve! Masterful pics, video, teaching, music, timing ...the real deal. Thank you for passing your skills and joy to us. I'm grateful.
Thanks for watching, really glad you enjoy the way I present my shots :)
Such a beautiful video. I can feel the excitement just while adjusting the tripod legs, and the anticipation of what the light will bring to your camera. So inspiring! Keep up the great work.
Thank you for these magical moments with these lights and rainbows
that three clip opener is disgustingly good!
Thanks so much Alex, hope all is well!
Yes, I did enjoy the experience, thanks! All part of the TOTAL landscape photography experience. Kind regards
Living in the great PNW, I really enjoy photographing waterfalls. Great video, and pics! I usually shoot waterfalls somewhere around 1/4-1/5, but subscribe to the idea of faster (or slower) when the conditions, or experimentation, warrant. You produce really lovely work! Thanks so much.
Excellent images and video, especially the slow motion of the waterfall! To top it off, I remained completely dry! 😁
Yes create fantasy thru imaginary perfect, that is exactly how i like to shoot
Love hearing and watching your creative process, Michael. I find if the water has big interesting shapes then shoot with a fast shutter to add texture on top of the shapes. And If the water flow haas simpler shapes, then a slower shutter will further simplify it. Thanks for sharing your journey!
Not sure which I enjoy more - the insights into your creative process, or the photos themselves. Both are inspiring.
Thanks for sharing all of the talent & skill you've developed over the years, very inspiring. I use both long & short exposures with all types of water to capture the mood I'm feeling because water can be amazing when captured in both exposures.
With just a few seconds of the video, I can already say that it is stunning.
That's really kind of you to say, I hope you enjoy the rest! :)
@@MichaelShainblum I watched the entire video. and it was beautiful from start to finish.
Thank you for sharing your joy and creative process with us, Michael. After watching your videos, I feel so inspired to just shoot without worrying about “the shot.” How freeing. I find your images deeply moving and exceptionally creative. Words are failing to describe the feeling I get when I see them, but it is something along the lines of “(Gasp), oh wow, that’s stunning.”
Love how you look around at all the small details, and capture different aspects of nature. Beautiful video!
Absolutely incredible video,extraordinary images!!!
im shooting water photos with 1/4 or 1/10 shutter speed, but as you said its depend of the tipe of water the result of this. I love how randomize its. Thanks for share your vision of the nature 🙏
I could go on and on about this video, but the 2nd and 3rd shots at the beginning (shot at 100mm and 200mm) are great! I saw more of an owl than a parrot, but a bird nonetheless. And the rainbow videos are absolutely magical!! Thank you for sharing this video.
I love the owl take! Thanks so much Neal, I am really glad you enjoyed the video!
The joy on your face says it all. Wonderful!
Michael, the 2nd photo at 100mm looks whimsical, fairytale like. You have an amazing skill at story telling. The work you do on waterfalls is very instructional and makes me think about what I do, and dont do when shooting waterfalls. Great VLOG
My favourite subject! A thousand thumbs up for this sensational video!!
Thanks for watching!
Those shots at the 8minute mark, absolutely gorgeous Michael 👌
Unbelievable! Your images never disappoint me. You are truly one of my favourite Photographers and your videos are inspiring.
Thank you. Wolfgang
Another masterpiece vlog, it's always poetic, ethereal your videos, keep them coming
Amazing work Michael🤩
Milky waterfalls have been done to death over the decades. Worst part is that I often cant tell the difference between waterfalls because I'm so distracted by the waterfall's look that the rest of the image fades away, losing what makes that waterfall unique. I love your style when it comes to waterfalls - Milford Sound is a standout!
Super images - very creative use of the light and its interactions 👏
Your last few minutes of talk really resonates with me. I think I heard it from Brooks Jensen’s LensWork podcast. He told a story of his friend who crashed his camera during a 7 day hiking trip and how it turned out to be a blessing because he could focus on enjoying the trip without worrying about taking photos. Sometimes, I also think that I focus on taking photos so much that I forgot to enjoy the moment.
Incredible shots and videos!! Thanks.
Great ‘cauldron’ photos 👍🏻
Totally agreed. You gotta enjoy and soak up the experience whether you get a shot or not. Take a photo to have as a remembrance though.
Love the video. I was wondering if you were in the Pacific Northwest, then you mentioned southern Oregon! Beautiful images! Really enjoyed the way you talked us through what you’re seeing and thinking as you work the site.
Love watching these videos! Keep them coming Michael! Awesome photography like always!😀🔥
You've taught me a lot about working the scene. No one does it better. Cheers!
Lovely shots, Michael! Really enjoyed the video 🔥🤘🏻
Let MIchael Shainblum make all the choices for you! Superb shots as usual!
Loved this, very creative
amazing as always!
So lovely. The music with the waterfalls and rainbows and honestly seeing you enjoy it so much conveyed the beauty very well. Once again , your photography style helps me expand my mind to see things differently. 🌈☀️
1/5 sec is my go to for waterfalls.
Man you are on fire 💪💪👏👏🕺🕺
As always, amazing shots!
Wow! Wow! Wow!
This is something I struggled with for many years of photography is not focusing on the main subject. Whenever I went to a waterfall, I wanted to photograph the waterfall and everything around it in one shot. It feels so wrong to take a photo of things next to the waterfall. Also, greetings from Southern Oregon! Happy you visited.
Awesome work!
Amazing Results 👏
The only moving water I can shoot locally is running out of the tap! LOL Great video.
I love working with shutter speeds when I am on the coast or at a waterfall. Typically, I start at about .4 and go from there. Depending on the natural lighting, I find this shutter speed captures detail and doesn’t blow out the highlights.
So good buddy! This is my favourite environment to see you photograph in, just stunning results!
Amazing video with some very unique images. Thanks for celebrating nature with us.
I think you can find a photo in locations where most others couldn’t
Have had a good look through your videos and I’m blown away by your talent
Answering your question. I love long exposures and I normally prefer 0.5 to 1 second shutter speeds
I just feel it captures the turbulence ands adds movement to a still image
Beautiful as always Michael! I generally prefer fast shutters to convey the power of moving water. I’d also like to hear more about those shots that seem almost underwater.
Such beautiful images, Michael! I mostly prefer the long exposure look, but like you said it depends on what you're photographing. I love to watch waterfalls and listen to the sound they make, I could've sat in that location and never left!
Your images at 4:54 and 8:23 just might be added to my Blum collection that I started 😍
Michael, what an epic location and stunning images.
great video, thank you.
Beautiful shots and a beautiful location. I've been using my rocket blower on my lens since I first saw you use it in one of your past videos, game changer from using lens cloths on a wet lens!
I tend to shoot moderately long exposure at around a tenth of a second. This helps to show some water motion and not mush. However, under certain conditions, freezing the water is more effective.
I like the longer exposure effect.
Beautiful, creative and fun. Thanks for sharing.😊
You are very welcome, thanks for watching!
I really like your channel where you take us with you and share your thoughts. Thank you very much!
Glad you enjoy it, thank you!
Gorgeous images Michael 👌 whenever I shoot water scenes, whether it be coastal shots or waterfalls in Iceland I always experiment with various shutter speeds. You never know whether you will revisit the same location, let alone get the same conditions and you would kick yourself if you didn’t 😉 that’s the beauty of digital photography, you can take hundreds of images and pick out the most appealing results later
Great lesson and stunning work! So creative! And you had me smiling along with you! I usually prefer using a slightly shorter speed to keep some texture.
Very good video, it makes me feel very relaxed
Wonderful footage and great images
Magical
Once again, CONGRATULATIONS, for the images, the videos and tips! God bless you! As for your question, I prefer the fast water exposures as i.m.o they showcase better the sheer power of nature.
I'm waiting your next video ❤
I tend toward long exposures, myself. There is a zone of shutter speed, from About 1/50 to 1/250 sec that I avoid. Generally I want it more blurred or more frozen than that unhappy medium
Really enjoyed this video
Thank you!
A beautiful video. My wife and I love your work and we both feel that long exposures are way overused, often turning water into milk.
To answer to your question on long vs short exposure when shooting waterfall, I think it depends. When shooting a very powerful waterfall, I tend to shoot with a somewhat short exposure to show that power ! For others, when there is something else I want to show in the picture, ie when the waterfall is only part of the overall composition, /i would tend to use a long exposure. But of course it’s not a hard rule and also I think we evolve as photographers. In the early years, for me, it was all long exposure and actually I like the smoothness of the water with lon exposures.
I thought you might have been back in Kauai with all the water at first, but the old-growth trees finally gave it away. Great images. I probably sit in the middle of the curve for sharp/blurry water.
haha not this time, but I would love to head back!
Always prefer the long exposure on waterfalls. It’s more how we see them when we are there, or at least that’s my opinion.
BTW what waterfall in Southern Oregon? That’s where I am and there are tons of em around here.
Jaw dropping
Thanks so much!
Beautiful and stunning as always! Thanks for the rocket blower tip! I've had one for years and never thought to use it to remove moisture. On that note, I'm wondering if shooting through the moisture on the lens might make for some pleasant, unintended unique effects, especially considering the subject you're shooting?
I almost always prefer a longer shutter speed 1/4 to 1/8 for moving water. However, I am open to quicker speeds when the water textures are unique, as you did here with the Oregon waterfalls.
Wow…
With waterfalls and waves, I like about 1/6 second. The boss on the other hand likes the frozen action. So I do both
A lot of times I freeze the water and use backlighting to catch the light coming through the water.
hot day? it's -5 here in the sun. You lucky bugger.
I usually shoot water with a long shutter speed but want to work more on trying very fast shutter speeds. I find that things in the middle are rather "meh."
Impressive, as always.
Would using a lens hood help reduce the amount of mist that lands on the lens? Or just get in the way of the rocket blower?
from a different angle that could help, but the water was spraying directly in front of me, plus I needed the use of my filters. I found it more helpful to use my CPL as almost a lens cover (where I could still kind of compose the shots and see what I was looking at) then quickly take it off, snap the shots and rocket blow the lens to keep it clean.
Beautiful images, Michael. You are the best. I tend to shoot longer exposures at the falls.
I let the waterfall guide me. Some look really good with a long exposure, but having some details, or fine strands of water.
Michael, your photos are beautiful, but u never shutter speed for any of them.
The pict are beautiful, I personally like water pictvwith a little of movement dont like the milky look....
1/8 s
Looks like a troll cyclops on the right
I know slow shutter speed photography for waterfalls is popular, but I like photos that freeze what the human eye sees.
Personally, I don't like water that is smoothed to textureless "milk". I like to see some smoothing but still with indications of movement. Often, something around 0.25-0.4 seconds works but, of course, it is dependent on the speed the water is moving.
My thoughts exactly.
I prefer a high shutter speed for waterfalls.
I prefer to shoot long exposure for my waterfall shots if the water isn't moving too fast. If it's a large powerful waterfall, I prefer a faster shutter speed