Capturing moving water
If you’ve ever gone to the beach or to a river and saw a beautiful waterfall or splashing waves on the rocks and thought it would be cool to catch a picture of that with the waves up in the air.
Well it’s not that hard. It may take patience to capture it while waiting for the right shot and you may have a lot of photos that you don’t want, but that’s the beauty of digital. You can erase all those unwanted photos. For the most part you don’t need a fancy DSLR to take a great photo of the water; unless of course you want special effects. The quicker the shutter speed the better the stop motion of the water. This is true with any object you are trying to stop motion on. The photo to the right was taken with my HP315 point and shoot with a UV and Polarizer filter.
If you have a DSLR or camera where you can adjust your settings, you can achieve special effects by slowing down your shutter speed. This will blur the water motion and give is a foggy or hazy look this is a good effect if you are at a river or waterfall. Put your camera on manual settings and adjust your exposure time. If you don’t have manual settings use your night scene mode to help slow down the shutter. Take several shots to until you achieve the result you are looking for. Patience and practice will get you the effects you want. Art is the artist perception and you are the artist. Do what is pleasing to you.
References
www.photoblink.com
www.digit-life.com
www.hp.com
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