Kamraman Loc: Canada

This picture was taken with the following settings.
f/9 1/60sec ISO 100 T3

Canon T3
no filter.

I would appreciate all comments. I am trying to improve my skill.

Thank you.

Corner Brook Stream

Bob1190 Loc: Hatboro, PA

Looks real good to me. Love to walk the streams in my area. Thanks

oldmalky Loc: West Midlands,England.

very nice really like it.

Frapha Loc: Tulsa, Oklahoma

Looks good. Are you using a tripod? If you want to smooth out the whitewater & keep the rest of the image sharp, using a tripod with a slower shutter speed should do the trick.

DCHigley Loc: Ashtabula, OH originally

Agreed... It is a great shot. I think that I would have taken others with less shutter speed to "stop" the water and another with the tripod and as slow a shutter as I could get with the light so that the water "misted".

I can always see both in settings like this and can never decide which I like better.

Just my 2 cents...

Kamraman Loc: Canada

Thank you for your 2 cents.
How do I slow the shutter speed?

I did play with the setting on my Canon T3. Just didn't know what I to do..

Only had the camera a few weeks, so still on a steep learning curve.

Kamraman Loc: Canada

I do not have a tripod, though it is on my wish list.

Currently waiting on a telephoto lens. I live in a bay thats 30 miles to open water (Atlantic)

Kamraman Loc: Canada

Thank you all for the kindness.

DCHigley Loc: Ashtabula, OH originally

Decrease your ISO or use a larger fstop. I am not really sure how to tell you to do this with a Canon because I shoot Nikon, but I know there are ways to adjust the ISO and fstop. The thing you need to watch for are the automatic adjustments. If you don't have them turned off, the camera will try to fix the exposure by adjusting the other settings to compensate for your adjustments. I don't know how comfortable you are with the manual settings, but I am sure there are Canon peeps here that can help out with the actual ways to get your camera to cooperate.

Good luck and have fun!

sinatraman Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant

you are overexposed on the whitewater part of the river. you could use exposure compensation, a circular polarizer, or turn the camera to meter off something darker while pressing the shutter half way down to lock the meter then turn back and compose where you want to. If you want to capture the motiopn of the water and show drops high shutter speed. for that cotton candy misty look look real slow shutterspeed and tripods. You can find a basic tripod for under 50 bucks at walmart, ritz, best buy etc. it will do untill you can afford a decent one.

Now saying this as gentley and helpfull that I can, if you have to ask how to change your shutter speed, you don't really know your camera yet. take camera in one hand and manual in the other and as the camera manual describes buttons and features, play with them. you can't damage anything and you can always reset all your settings to how they came out of the factory. look in index under reset or factory reset. I use nikon so i can't tell you what canon's procedurwe is. Also there is nothing wrong with shooting set on auto or the green box for a while as you learn your camera. I have been shooting for 43 years and still mostly shoot on Program mode and flex program mode.. for what i like to shoot, shutter speed rarely is important except in low light situations, and average dof works. I probably shoot program mode 80% apeture mode 15% and shutter and manual the rest.

if you shoot in raw sometimes post processing will allow you to recover some of the blown highlights. but that is another lesson for another time. Get comfortable with your camera first.

llindstrand Loc: Seattle Metro

First is get a tripod. Costco has a super special on a carbon fibre one for about $80.00 including a ball head. Since I am a Canon user I'll tell you my settings on waterfalls. ISO100 is correct. I set the small wheel setting to AV (aperature priority) and set the f-stop to f22. This will hold the sutter open longer and give the silky look to the water. You cannot hand hold at f22. I have recently tried shooting with a Cokin neutral density filter to slow the shutter down some more. It has given me some much better pictures. The caution is that you absolutely need a tripod to shoot at that f-stop. If you have questions, please let me know. You can see some of my waterfalls on my website.
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sinatraman Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant

a carbon fiber tripod with head for 80 bucks is a real steal!