PA State Parks: RG Falls

It's hard to pick out just one or two shots from someplace like Rickett's Glen. Even if 85% of my shots were less than what I'd like to publish, that still leaves 15-20 pretty good ones...

I'll stop for now with this one, but maybe one of these days I'll post a couple more.

Lesson's learned from my first trip (with point and shoot) included the idea that a tripod is a must, and with THAT camera, with an f8.0 minimum aperture, cloud cover (or a decent filter) was a must to get the extended exposure required for a shot like this.

This time, I came with a better camera, and pushed the limit the other way. I could do more than the 1/2 second or so before... so I took some at 1/2 second, some at 2.5 or even as much as 5.0 seconds.

I got lucky with this shot, at 2.5 seconds... many of them did not fair so well. Even with a tripod, there's a danger in extended exposure... The slightest vibrations tend to make things blurred - that could be the vibration of the ground from the falling water, or the slight breeze shaking the foliage. This one worked out but in the end, most of my 1/2 to 1 second shots worked out better than the ones in the 2-5 second range...

So lessons learned for next trip may be to concentrate on the 1/2 to 1 second exposures - In this case the extra seconds didn't really much change the feel of the water falling anyways.

Still not bad for my 2nd trip (and the first with an SLR).