A bit of Teesdale Landscape

[DaveRob]

[Rebel]

Not a bad effort Dave, its a bit of a tight crop.. and I think you my have overdone it on the shutter speed even for my taste

[Manfred M]

+1 to Matt's comments. I do long exposures to do water at times too. Silky smooth water is definitely harder than it looks. I still prefer it to look a bit more like water with some texture.

I suspect that part of what catches my eye as well is the colour of the water going over the falls. The orange / brown overtones do look a bit strange. Looking more closely, the whole image is a bit on the warm side. I suspect this is a colour cast introduced by the filter. Which ND filter (brand and density) are you shooting with?

[Wavelength]

Nice; but there is a point which i would never have thought about, unless it was pointed out Matt and Manfred

[Dave Humphries]

The colour of the water in the main fall may be because we've had a lot of rain (over here) recently and this has churned a lot of mud and silt in to the main flow. The small fall on the left looks a more natural colour to me.

That said, I couldn't see an obvious image date to confirm when taken, so I could be wrong.

For me; the fall is OK in terms of shutter speed, but where it looks odd is the surface of the lake with semi-submerged rocks that looks oddest.

HTH, Dave

[DaveRob]

Thanks for the comments they are appreciated. The orange brown cast in the main fall is indeed due to peat being washed into the main flow further upstream. Its quite common here and after some heavy rainfall the water can look decidedly rusty brown. In the smaller fall its nowhere near as pronounced just due to less water so it looks more clear, it actually isnt.... The filter is a 10 stop from SRB http://srb-photographic.co.uk/nd1000-filters-1280-c.asp I bought this rather than the LEE big stopper just based on reviews and cost.... as an experiment it seems to have worked out quite well as I havnt had any great issue with casts. Maybe a bit long on exposure but Ill take that on board and try some variations next time.

Once again thanks for the comments.

DaveR

[Manfred M]

Thanks for the update Dave. We have the brown tea-coloured water of northern rivers where I live, but even in the spring time when the silt is all churned up we don't get water that photographs with colours like that. Based on the price and the fact that your image has an overall red cast, I suspect your filter is not as neutral as you think.

Producing high density neutral coloured filters on a consistent and repeatable basis has proved challenging even for the major players, so I'm somewhat skeptical about the filter being neutral.