Noosack Falls

reaching here early morning (before sun got over the thick forest cover) meant that I would get a long exposure readily. I still found the use of a 8 stop ND Filter to further increase the exposure time that gives the moving part of the water a dreamy effect (and not everybody likes it).

I liked how the top portion and the lower portion of water act like two vastly different worlds, in both their varied colors and dynamism.

15 thoughts on “Noosack Falls”

fiirvogu on September 8, 2013 at 11:57 am said:

Beautiful.

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- abu zar on September 9, 2013 at 2:16 am said:
  
  Thanks !
  
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Silving on March 11, 2012 at 5:45 pm said:

Wow, you know, I can’t swim :D .Or is it just a photo and I should relax? :D

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- abu zar on March 11, 2012 at 8:31 pm said:
  
  haha…yeah I won’t recommend swimming either. there were no lifeguards around :)
  
  Thanks for dropping by and caring to comment. Hope to see you around !
  
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iltana on November 9, 2011 at 1:42 pm said:

Love this one!!!

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marlisha11 on October 10, 2011 at 3:35 pm said:

Thank you for your great photography and for sharing your knowledge!!!!!, it is very helpful, I´ve started to experiment with ND filter and learneing…..

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- abu zar on October 10, 2011 at 5:24 pm said:
  
  Thank you for your kind words Marlisha and i am glad you found it useful. I am sure with your creative imagination you will love it :)
  
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mina on October 7, 2011 at 1:31 am said:

Thsi is a stunning shot !!!! What is a stop filter? Never heard of that !

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- abu zar on October 7, 2011 at 11:54 am said:
  
  ND stands for neutral density.8 stops refers to 8 units of light. the short of it (behind all this technical jargon that i will come to later) is that a ND filter is nothing but a piece of black glass (sometimes even plastic)that cuts some of the light reaching your sensor (or film) – that’s all it is :)
  
  how its used is perhaps more interesting.In brigt light you can not take an exposure less than a certain shutter speed(because their is so much light around) but there are creative cases when you would want to take exposures of a few seconds (to a few minutes) and that is where ND filters are useful. It is primarily a landscape photographer tool but can easily be used for Street photography too.Use your favorite search engine for examples :)
  
  this blog has some more stories :
  http://singhray.blogspot.com/search/label/Vari-ND
  
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  - mina on October 10, 2011 at 5:34 am said:
    
    That’s really interesting .. had never head of that before !!! Thankssss for your explanation!
    
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    - abu zar on October 10, 2011 at 10:29 am said:
      
      you are welcome. Looking forward to seeing some creative use of ND filters from you soon :)
      
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saarimner on October 1, 2011 at 1:18 am said:

Super!

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Joy on September 15, 2011 at 8:44 pm said:

Excellent!

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- abu zar on September 19, 2011 at 1:40 pm said:
  
  Thanks Joy. I could not add comments to your photo blog. Is that by design or do i need to login with a certain account ?
  
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