Scaleber Force And Sunshine » “Scaleber Force”
Scaleber Force is a lovely waterfall just above the village of Settle - although you could easily drive past it and never know it was there.
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2 Comments on “Scaleber Force”
April 15th, 2008 at 10:48 (edit)
Fantastic photos, my in-laws have just returned from the lake district and whilst there purchased a photo-on-canvas from a gallery. Their print looks amateur compared to these that you have published.
What settings did you use to get the water so ‘creamy’?
April 15th, 2008 at 11:09 (edit)
Thanks Paul! Maybe I should start selling prints!
I put everything I know about waterfall photography in this article if you want to see how easy it actually is to get shots like this. But for this one I’ve got my camera on manual, ISO 100, F16, I put a circular polariser and my 2 darkest ND grad filters on (since I don’t have non-graduated filters I have to make do with them). This means you can barely see through the viewfinder as it’s so dark but it also means when you get a reading (using partial metering) it’ll be a really long exposure time - in this case 15 seconds. That’s where the smooth look of the water comes from and the detail and colours around the waterfall come to life. Really any more than a few-second exposure will create this look but the longer the better.