When I shot this one there were a dozen or so hikers around me that all shot the fall with their cell. I'm sure they got some frozen droplets. It was worse at more touristy spots in Iceland... at one fall there must have been over a hundred cell shooters all getting frozen droplets. So out of 100 people there, I was the only guy doing longer exposures... yet I'm the cliche? I beg to differ. Feel free to go to Instagram and search the hashtag #waterfall to see which of the two styles is overdone.

You only see lots if them because you frequent photography sites, and because art directors and graphic designers like to use them in ads. Why? Because they don't look like some schmuck shot it with his cell. They look better than that. And as a veteran of fine art shows I can certainly tell you what would sell better, and it isn't any of the frozen droplet shots posted in this thread. You couldn't give those away.

There is no "best" shutter speed for moving water, as water moves at different speeds. 1/5 second might capture a lot of detail in a stream but turn a raging fall milk white. And milk white is often not the best choice if your water had good color in it, because you will lose the color. In the shot below I was trying to balance the low light, water motion, and tremendous blue color. Not perfect, but none ever are.