It took me almost 7 years to take this photograph. When I visited this location the first time, it was in the middle of the afternoon and there was a massive log blocking the view of the waterfall. On my second visit, I left my water shoes in the car… I mean, why take shoes when there is a log blocking the view of the falls. Right? Of course, by then, the log was gone. It took me another year to get back to this location – and this time, I brought those shoes! The water was freezing cold from snow melt, but my neoprene water shoes kept my feet relatively warm.
I chose a vertical composition to create depth in the photograph. In order to get the shot, I had to wade into the fast-moving flow. I waited until the bubbles in the water were close to my camera before releasing the shutter so that I could capture the white streaks. I decided to bracket the exposure to get the right size streaks in the foreground with one exposure and get enough details in the waterfall in a second exposure. I used our iHDR workflow to blend the two exposures for this finished image.
It was totally worth the wait. Love it!
Thanks Eric. The location is gorgeous!!
This is what it takes sometimes in order to create a beautiful image, lots of people underestimate photography as a profession and they don’t even realise how demanding and hard could be to get one of these stunning images they see on the cover of a magazine. I really admire photographers like you who will come back and again to their objects till you get the right frame in time!!!
In this shot I really like the motion on the foreground it adds so much life and dimension to the overall look of the image.
Thanks Nikolay!! Landscape Photography is hard work but we love every minute of it.