timsdd aka Tim's Digital Darkroom

So for these slow moving water pictures I am using my Canon 40D, 24-105/4/IS/L, and B+W ND filter.

The pictures were usually shot @ ISO 100, 3s, F/4 – which weren’t the best settings, usually you’d want f/11-f/16 for landscape photos but @ that aperture the exposures would have been 30s easily…which is why my ND filter is too dark! 10 stops is too much, 5 would have been a lot better.

More Black River, I was loving this one section
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This is something I had seen 1K times growing up but never stopped by to actually take a photo of it! Took me long enough and I loved the result.

More from the fire lookout at the summit of Mt. Ascutney

Not sure what kind of flower this is

Weird moth!

I don’t even recall this really…I think it was a flowering plant of some kind.

Oh Hai!

Loving the color of the clovers

Anything with water tends to lend itself nicely to B&W, the contrast between the water and the still water always sets the image off (IMO).

Tune in next post to see what settings and equipment I used to get the slow moving water to flow like I did with this first image.

Black River

Might need to invest in a polarizer (filter)….not sure if it would cut the ‘haze’ or what!

This is the actual summit…not much to see from here!

Good thing the fire tower is there to get you above all the fray.

This guy is great :-)

Might be the best macro shot of the trip!

I know I took a lot of similar shots but I was enamored with the blue sky.

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This guy scored big. I was using my 24-105mm + extension tubes though,

if I would have had my true macro it would have been even sweeter!

“Little Cascade Falls”….right about where I realized I brought the tri-pod but did not bring the head!!!! DOH!!!

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Not much to see @ the top of the falls now is there :p

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Summer vacation! Got to love it!!

While it was taken nearly 3 months ago now, the trip we had was quite wonderful.

I only took “a handful” of shots this time rather than the usual 6GB of images…I just wanted to take a different approach for once and also didn’t want to spend the next 9 months editing everything!

Here’s a few to get things started:

Mt. Ascutney Vermont, the view from the fire tower at the summit…which ironically is the best and only view within several hundred feet of the summmit….funny how that is.

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Hide and go bee….he was a tricky one to follow

View from the trail on the way to cascade falls

This was in my Dad’s backyard….I actually saw a ton of them on the trail to Cascade Falls but time did not allow me to stop and capture them :/
Not to mention I did not have the right equipment with me @ the time.

The view from the bottom of Cascade Falls

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The Black River…Springfield VT