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River Wave #2

Small waves in a river

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The story behind this image

I love making landscape images with movement in them. Sometimes there will be moving waves at the coast, sometimes swaying grasses in a field, sometimes a cascading waterfall and sometimes patterns and ripples in the moving water of a stream.

I never cease to be amazed at how using a longish shutter speed or moving a camera during exposure can transform a scene from the mundane to the emotive, and such was the case here on a drab winter's day in our local park.

I was attracted initially to the patterns of light and dark on the surface of the water as the stream passed over hidden boulders, and when I took the picture I already had in my mind's eye this finished image, which is far removed from the original capture!

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Image data


Filename - river wave 02.jpg

Camera - Canon 5D

Lens - 100mm prime

Exposure - 1/4sec @ f8, ISO100

Location - Loggerheads, North Wales

This image - 533x800px JPEG

Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2

Comments - Long exposure used to blur the water.