A veil of flowing water transforms colorful river bottom stones into an expressionistic splotches of color. The shot was taken knee-deep in the Huntington Rive near the Green Mountain Audubon Center in Huntington.
Nikon D600, Nikon 24-120mm lens @ 85mm, polarizing filter, ISO 200, f/11, 1/13″ exposure.
I went for a morning swim on Blue Mountain Lake in the heart of the Adirondacks. There were four loons about 40 feet offshore busily diving for fish. One of them came up with a big one, but he or she scampered off out of photo range before I could get a shot. These two were kind enough to pose. I think the four were two adults and two juveniles, and these two are an adult and a juvenile.
Nikon D600, Sigma 120-400mm lens @ 400mm, ISO 1250, f/8, 1/1000″ exposure.
Morning sun backlights this single fern frond and droplets of wave splash along the shore of Indian Lake. A fast shutter speed freezes that action.
Photo Info: Nikon D600, Sigma 105mm macro lens, ISO 1250, f/3.2, 1/800″ shutter.
A close-in shot of tannin tinted, tea colored water and reflections from the surrounding trees. This is from the same Adirondack stream of my previous two posts. Here, I’m experimenting further with shutter speed and the levels of reflectivity that can be “dialed in” using a circular polarizing filter.
Photo Info: Nikon D600, Nikon 24-120mm lens @ 65mm, polarizing filter, ISO 1250, f/4.5, 1/40″ exposure.
The tannin tinted waters of an unnamed stream flowing into Indian Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Recent rains have made many of these smaller brooks run high.
Photo Info: Nikon D600, Nikon 18-35mm lens @ 18mm, polarizing filter, ISO 100, f/20, 5″ exposure.
This shot is from shoot yesterday up on Indian Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. The tannins in the water come from decomposing vegetation and color the water a lovely tea color. The 1/13″ shutter speed blurs the water just enough to bring out what I call the “light scribbles” in the water. More photos from this shoot to come…
Photo Info: Nikon D600, 24-120mm lens @ 92mm, polarizing filter, ISO 3200, f/16, 1/13″.
Maple sprouts pop up amongst the river stones on a recently flood-created island of rock and gravel in Brush Brook.
Photo Info: Nikon D600, Nikon 18-35mm @ 35mm, ISO 800, f/16, 1/200″
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I’m always “mining” my photos for compositional possibilities. Beyond composing “in camera” while you’re shooting (perhaps the preferred method…) creative cropping of an image can help refine and refocus the subject of your shot. Sometimes I find something completely unexpected. Here’s a case in point from some shots I took yesterday evening after heavy rain had swelled Fargo Brook, the small stream the runs through our property.
Here’s the full frame shot taken with a 24-120mm lens at 24mm, ISO 100, f/6.3, 8″ exposure:
The subject here is the whole stream flow. I like the the smoothness of the chaotic water that the long exposure offers. It’s an okay shot, but a fairly conventional one. So, I decided to snoop around a little bit to see what I could find. I thought that the wet elm leaves in the lower right corner and the rock in midstream might offer interesting possibilities. So I cropped down to this:
Now the subject is different. We’ve left the realm of the entire stream flow to focus on the rock and the wet leaves. The water becomes less of an actor than a background. And a pretty interesting one at that. Working further, I spread the field out a bit to encompass a bit more of the stream:
Now the rock and leaves take on a secondary role, and the texture of the water becomes the focus. I also like the little corner of green that seems to float in the upper right-hand corner. I like all three shots, but have to admit that the last two are more interesting to my eye. What do you think?
John Hadden Photography 