Pistyll Rhaeadr Waterfall

[OlyPaul]

Got up yesterday morning and on the spur of the moment said to the wife lets go somewhere.
I decided on Pistyll Rhaeadr Waterfall in Wales as it was only a 70 mile drive.

Pistyll Rhaeadr is an enchanting waterfall in the Berwyn Mountains, just inside Wales, west of Oswestry and Shrewsbury.

At 240ft (80m) high it is the UK tallest single drop waterfall. The first image although not good shows it in its entirety, I much prefere to photograph sections of it.

E-30 and 11-22, 70-300mm, liveview use for them all.

[Wreckdiver]

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I like these shots Paul, especially the first with the vivid sky. I think there is a knack in photographing moving water in getting the shutter timing just right. Too short and the water is "frozen" and doesn't look right, too long and it comes out too "milky". Your timing is just right.

Steve

[Bill Gordon]

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Really nice shots!! How do you resized in order to keep the size of image shown as above. When I resize to less that 100k it appears as a very small image.

[theMusicMan]

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You've done a great job there Paul at capturing the essence of this waterfall, each shot is good in its own right.

#1: well exposed and controlled given the range of DR in the shot. Great to see blue sky and green trees!
#2: lovely landscape orientation and composition; with the focal point of the image smack on a third/third intersection.
#3: WOW - the best of the bunch, capturing the energy of the falls. Lovely use of the tree in the foreground too, well thought out.
#4: Lovely lead lines making this viewer run his eyes from the bottom of the pic right to the top of the fall where the water starts on its path down.

Super set.

@Bill: what application do you use to resize images...? you should be able to resize using pixels rather than file size.

[ringneck]

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...."Got up yesterday morning and on the spur of the moment said to the wife lets go somewhere.
I decided on Pistyll Rhaeadr Waterfall in Wales as it was only a 70 mile drive.

Pistyll Rhaeadr is an enchanting waterfall in the Berwyn Mountains, just inside Wales, west of Oswestry and Shrewsbury "........

"Discovered" this area and the Waterfall in the early 90's and it's a great part of the world with such a lot to see and not a lot of travelling.
Got to get back over there now I have a better camera.

Great shots of the longest falls in the country.
Keith
p.s. Is the great Cafe still there?

[OlyPaul]

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Thank you Steve.

Thanks Bill, let me know what program are you using to resize and i will try to help you out.

Thanks John (not as good as your boat set )

Thank you Keith and indeed it is, me and the wife had a pot of tea there after I had finished.

[Bill Gordon]

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Thank you Steve.

Thanks Bill, let me know what program are you using to resize and i will try to help you out.

Thanks John (not as good as your boat set )

Thank you Keith and indeed it is, me and the wife had a pot of tea there after I had finished.

Hi Paul, I have been resizing in CS4 and the sizing is done according to just less than 100K which produces an awfully small image. Am I doing something wrong?

"Olde" Bill

[ringneck]

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Bill Gordon....
I am bound to get this wrong but the size comes from the length x width e.g. 800 x 600 and the kb's are the quality.
Just looked at some of mine in the forums and one was even 1000 on long edge and about 500kb(in my storage gallery) ...don't know if they re-size automatically for the forum.

keith

[Wreckdiver]

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Bill Gordon....
I am bound to get this wrong but the size comes from the length x width e.g. 800 x 600 and the kb's are the quality.
Just looked at some of mine in the forums and one was even 1000 on long edge and about 500kb(in my storage gallery) ...don't know if they re-size automatically for the forum.

keith

In Photoshop CS4 I set my photos to around 800x600 to 1024x768 for this forum (CTRL+ALT+I). Go to File > Save as and save as JPEG with a quality to give a file size of around 100kb (experiment with the value to get the required file size). You can also save with File > Save for Web and Devices and you can set the file size as shown in the bottom left of the picture and using the Quality slider. However, this way will remove the Exif data, so the first method is preferred.

Steve

[OlyPaul]

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Hi Paul, I have been resizing in CS4 and the sizing is done according to just less than 100K which produces an awfully small image. Am I doing something wrong?

"Olde" Bill

Hi Bill, in CS4 go to Image > Size then in the resize dialogue box tick all the boxes and set the longest edge here its the heigh (if a landscape it would be the width ) to 800pixels as shown in blue ,do not worry about the resolution box just leave it alone.



Then Ok it, now you can either save it as a jpeg with save as or use the save for web to get it to the file size you want. In either case be sure to save it under another name to protect your original image. Hope that helps just shout if you get stuck

[Bill Gordon]

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Thanks Paul and Keith for your info......that is exactly what I do...except.....I save it for the web so that is possibly what I am doing wrong!

[JackBenedict]

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Hi Paul - No 1 does it for me. There is scale within the shot and by adding in the sky you can just imagine the height of the falls. The tones are good throughout the picture.

For me I would have cloned out the very tiny bush that sits at the top of the waterfall and the sky ,the eye keeps getting returned to it once you notice it.

A great set of shots,and as someone said earler it is difficult to freeze the water just right so that doesn't look overcooked.

Well done

[Trausti Hraunfjord]

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For me I would have cloned out the very tiny bush that sits at the top of the waterfall and the sky ,the eye keeps getting returned to it once you notice it.

Sorry, but this sounds to me like a recipe for eliminating what is NATURAL.

I could just as well ask him to edit out the water and the trees and the rocks... because the eyes repeatedly return to those issues in the pictures.

It is a depiction of nature... photoshopping the natural elements out, making it into some plastic wrapped supermarket edition of "natural product", would surely eliminate the whole idea of taking the pictures from that location.

What is... IS. Leave the photoshopping brushes at home, and let nature be natural.

The images are reflections of reality... not screen shots of some computer generated imagery... right?

I like the originals, the real reflections of reality. With bushes and water and rocks and trees and sky.

Beautiful, and the way it should be.

[JackBenedict]

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You know what they say ..... if you have the tools use them.

It's nothing to do with being NATURAL. If you had the most fantastic view blighted by pylons for example,what would you do - leave the camera in the bag and not take the picture - yeah right on.

You know what they say ..... if you have the tools use them.

We now live in age when we can do these things - in fact we have come to expect these to be done. I only wish we had PS,et all those years ago.

Probably every picture on this forum has had some retouching.

For those amateur photographers who are not into the digital age - well there is always film.

[Bill Gordon]

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Hi Paul
Back to photography now that I hope I have my posting sizes right.....I like all of the a/m images, each has its' own personality and can stand on its' own. I think that you did a great job of showing the falls in its' various poses!!