There are days when you go out shooting and the weather doesn't quite cooperate. On our short family trip to Tofte I had one of these days. Originally rain was supposed to move in all day, but as it turned out we ended up missing the entire system. However, being right on the edge of the system made for pretty boring overcast skies. The only benefit was less ambient light. This allowed slower shutter speeds. For most shots of moving water I feel it is important to capture the motion to make the viewer feel like they were there. Without a neutral density filter the only way to slow down the shutter is dropping the ISO as low as possible and going with the smallest aperture. If this picture was taken at the same time of day with blue skies the water would be frozen.
How do you get the silky water without a neutral density filter? Get up early or stay out late. Use a tripod with a cable release. Hope for cloudy days.
One last note. Since the skies had no definition at all I tried to minimize how much were in the shot. Normally I wouldn't crop out quite so much of the sky even with blah clouds but the foreground was really interesting so I thought it would be acceptable in this case.
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