The best way to do this is to show up at the waterfall or
running stream early in the morning or late in the afternoon, when there??™s not much light
available.
?– Be sure that your camera??™s ISO setting is as low as it??™ll go, such as 100.
?– Set your camera on a tripod (the long exposure absolutely requires a steady support??”but
you can use a very small, lightweight tripod).
?– If the camera has a shutter priority mode, use it to set the camera??™s shutter speed to
half second or slower.
?– Compose the image and take the shot.
?– If your camera allows it, take several pictures, each with a different shutter speed. The
longer the shutter is open, the ???smoother??? the water will look. Compare the two images
in Figure 7-3. The version on the left was shot in just 1/30 second; the one on the right
had a far more leisurely shutter speed of 1/2 second.
Finally, you don??™t encounter waterfalls every day??”so it pays to be prepared when you find one
out in the real world. Practice at home! You can simulate a waterfall in your own kitchen. Check out
the following pictures, shot in a kitchen sink. The first one was taken with the camera in Automatic
mode. Then I set the camera to Shutter Priority and dialed the shutter speed to 1/30 second.
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