Cascading water; Flowerdale

All the images were taken on a Nikon D7200 DSLR with a kit lens of 18-105

The camera used takes pictures both in raw and jpeg format. The images used here are straight from the memory card without any software changes to the original image.

If your love is creative in-the-field photos getting the image right in camera should be your target. Others may look for capturing a basic image and creating a spectacular enhanced image in Photoshop or other similar image alteration technology.

This image was captured freezing the action, taking care not to overexpose the white water.

The same location with a slower shutter speed, can also be viewed as ICM (intentional camera movement). This shot was too slower shutter speed for the camera to be used without a tripod.

Placed on a tripod, a slower speed was achieved to capture a sharper image with smoother white water. This image was underexposed.

Placed on a tripod from further away and zoomed in, the addition of a circular polarising filter helped lower the light to enable a slower shutter speed to capture a more balanced exposure. The shutter release was set to 2 seconds. Look closer at the foreground to see how the long grass moved.

 Todays lesson was on finding where my knowledge and skills to use my camera is currently at.

One thing all four images have and that is a learning opportunity. 

Next time I go out my aim is to recreate the scene but taken into account what could be changed. Composition to draw the eye in, eliminating unintentional camera movement, enhance or exaggerate ICM. Alignment of horizon level with a tripod would also mean less corrections of the image.