May 20
Water
Every time I drive over the BjörnÃ¥n creek at FÃ¥gelsjö, I think that I should stop and take a picture. After three years, I finally did it today. Basically, I had to – I needed to create my picture-a-day and I really didn’t have any other ideas. So at first I took a cheap shot from the bridge, and then ventured into the dense forest lining the creek, hoping that I’d get a better opportunity at the next whitewater section. Well, it was a lot of work for nothing – when I got there, I remembered that I don’t like big creeks. I prefer small creeks, I think they are much more suited for the those really long exposures I like. So, I had to fight my way back through the forest and then when I was almost back to the car, I spotted this log and a crest of white water behind it. There’s my picture!
Picture is ever so slightly cropped. The colours and contrast are boosted way up because the original was quite frankly very dull – I even considered converting it to B&W. But in the end, I’m a colour photographer so I will have to stay true to my colours (if you please pardon the pun).
3 comments
It is always nice thing to see that shooter works for her pictures and doesn’t accept the easy way around. I think you did well with the composition and angle, as far as I’m somebody to analyze sceneries..
I have to agree with Rane here.
What filters did you use? I’m merely wondering if longer shutterspeed would’ve gotten the water even smoother, that is…
I only had the pol filter with me, normally I also carry an ND8 but I hadn’t re-packed my bag since the winter and an ND8 is not needed in the winter.
There was so much light that I only managed a 0.6 sec shutter, lens at f16 (I don’t stop down further if I can avoid it, because of diffraction). Otherwise I normally take my whitewater pictures with short and long shutter speeds to have something to compare later on. 