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13-Oct-2022 jimmsp

07 Madera Creek

Madera Canyon, AZ

The result of monsoon rains.
It is as dry as a bone in the summer months.

Canon EOS 90D ,Tamron 16-300 mm
1/125s f/9.0 at 60.0mm iso125 full exif

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Canon Image Challenge19-Oct-2022 16:20
Dave - see https://pbase.com/image/173081214 in pending for a 16 shot average of flowing water.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge19-Oct-2022 04:13
Dave,
I'll have to find one I did in Northern MN.

Otherwise, simply follow the instructions I have given.
I'm not going back up to the canyon and shoot this, if that is what you mean.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge19-Oct-2022 03:01
Show us!

Dave
Canon Image Challenge18-Oct-2022 20:05
I was just thinking of a way I did blur some moving water on a breezy day. Best with a tripod, but handheld can also work.
You shoot the first frame fast enough to stop the surrounding leaves, grass, etc, eg 1/500 sec.
Then you follow it with 40-50 shots at a slower shutter speed, eg, 1/100 sec, where you can maintain a good steady hand.
Put the whole group into separate layers in photo shop, mask out everything but the water except in shot 1, (you can duplicate the mask) then have PS create an average. You can get a really nice blur that way.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge18-Oct-2022 02:24
LOL.
I am not a big fan of over blurred water - it is "old" art these days.
Likewise, if it is too fast, on a stream like this, you would would loose the feeling of running water; there is just not enough water to cover all the gaps.
You really need a video with audio to get a good sense of the flowing water.


and btw, there was a light breeze.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge17-Oct-2022 03:16
Any breeze, and a six-second exposure might have produced some odd-looking leaves and branches.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge16-Oct-2022 01:21
I am looking at this on a different computer....and it is better or, my eyeballs are better after some sleep.Still, I feel this scene could be good wallpaper...and I wish it snapped to a little...or something...lol T
Guest 16-Oct-2022 01:08
I haven’t done the math but for a 6 second exposure he would have needed a serious ND filter or go early AM or late PM. Paul
Canon Image Challenge15-Oct-2022 12:53
A bit of criticism...(because you can certainly shoot this again as you wish), it seems to me that the shutter speed was too slow to actually freeze the moving water, leaving it a little blurry, and/or/ too fast to get a good blurred motion from the water as it spilled down the canyon towards you....I think that either 250~500/sec or 6 seconds would have been fine...but this in between seems to be neither fish nor fowl.

What the heck, an honest review.

Hiddy-Ho, Traveller, up up and away Silver
Canon Image Challenge14-Oct-2022 02:10
It contributed to it - though it was a bit more complicated.
A lot of uplift, along with millions of years of water erosion via the rains, the creek, and the small streams that feed it.
See The virtual Learning Program at https://friendsofmaderacanyon.org/virtual-learning/
and in particular a new video we produced https://youtu.be/pu8QEBVTpBs
that attempts to explain the uniqueness of the Sky Islands of which Madera Canyon is a part.

You can then watch the others that take you around Proctor Trail.

Jim
Guest 14-Oct-2022 01:29
That little creek created that big canyon?