That water shot is awesome! I have taken a few myself, but mine looks like crap compared to Phil's

Like the short depth of field

Thanks - nothing wrong with yours AB .

being compared to Craig Potton is like being compared to Sam Hill !!! - thanks

AB, nice shot, DoF is sweet.

Hot tip for waterfall shots. Since you are opening up the lens for longer, and letting more light in(to get the blur), it can be easy to 'burn' or blow out the white water (as has happened in your pic).

I've found the best way to combat this is to take waterfall shots early in the morning, late in the day, or any time that light levels are naturally low.

I know a great photographer to takes all his water shots when it is almost dark, with a tripod and really long exposure. Works great:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsphoto-/s ... 922439427/

and:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsphoto-/s ... 922436739/

Thanks Tyred - nice link

This guy is pretty good as well

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michael07/sets/72157601660336660/

Thanks for the positive comments I had my camera mounted on a mini tripod, pic not of a waterfall but a close- up of water flowing over a rock in the creek. I guess the low angle perspective gives it a feel of a waterfall and a shallow DoF. Pic was taken in the afternoon (2sec exposure I think) luckily there was heaps of shade, so pic wasn't over exposed. My other pics of water shots were posted about 10 pages into this thread, was reasonably sunny, so it was slightly over exposed, but I thought it was worth posting. http://www.vorb.org.nz/ftopic-74101-day ... c-150.html

NZsquigg wrote: Awesome pics vert, curses for only having a point and shoot camera

anyway heres a few of the semi decent pictures I have.

Also, what does ISO stand for? I want to take photography next year so I need to learn these things

For a point and shoot camera you seem to be doing fine.
90% of photography is having the eye for a good shot and the other 10% is the equipment.

PhilterNZ wrote: Thanks - nothing wrong with yours AB .

being compared to Craig Potton is like being compared to Sam Hill !!! - thanks

I have a Craig Potton photo in my lounge
Phil I'd say yours would be just as good IMHO

With the amount of high quality photos in here a calander comp fundraiser would be great.

Datsane wrote:

NZsquigg wrote: Awesome pics vert, curses for only having a point and shoot camera

anyway heres a few of the semi decent pictures I have.

Also, what does ISO stand for? I want to take photography next year so I need to learn these things

For a point and shoot camera you seem to be doing fine.
90% of photography is having the eye for a good shot and the other 10% is the equipment.

Just had another look at the previous page, I agree with Datsane, you have the eye for the shot! ISO means International Standards Organisation (I think) basically the higher the number, the faster the film is; i.e. great for capturing action shots in low light. the big disadvantage of this, more "grain" on film cameras and more "noise" ( horrible speckles) on digital cameras

tyred wrote: AB, nice shot, DoF is sweet.

Hot tip for waterfall shots. Since you are opening up the lens for longer, and letting more light in(to get the blur), it can be easy to 'burn' or blow out the white water (as has happened in your pic).

I've found the best way to combat this is to take waterfall shots early in the morning, late in the day, or any time that light levels are naturally low.

I know a great photographer to takes all his water shots when it is almost dark, with a tripod and really long exposure. Works great:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsphoto-/s ... 922439427/

and:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsphoto-/s ... 922436739/

or throw on a nd 8 filter

and anther good nz river andforest photographer is http://www.andrisapse.com/galleryview.p ... rs&image=8

(and excuse the blurry pic just to show what a nd 8 does in direct sunlight shame i didnt haul in tripod )

Nice Woodsy.

I use an ND filter for my shots as well, I find the longer exposure and the ND filter just gives it that extra oomph, especially to the greens.

Nice bit of bush there as well.

You know, "60 seconds" will remove the moss from those rocks nicely


Great pic Woodsy

Awesome thread! Here are a few of my efforts...

Whats an "ND" filter?

I like those shots of the mount WH

A little mix of this and that.

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2. Drift car dwarfed by Fuji TV building in Tokyo...

3. Munchi's Ford Rally NZ 07...

4. Sebastien Pourcel, 2007 Japan MX World championships...

All pics shot off a Fuji Finepix