Doh, I want to know how you did that!! Neato.
JoanMN

Wellllll, you know how they are having the water competition at the STF? I've been kind of keeping my eye open for an opportunity but nothing was presenting itself. I was watering the flowers in my backyard and filling my birdbath that has a leak in it and thought, "A-ha!" So I filled it up and to hide how dirty it is, I stirred it up with a stick with one hand and then shot the picture with my other! It's kind of an interesting picture! I showed my dh and tried to make him guess what it was, and even told him it was something in our backyard...he couldn't figure it out!
Sue

That is so cool, pretty color!

I'll uh take your word for it. Either it's pebbles in shallow water or you changed the color. Pretty abstract and nice color.

Nice vision and compisition.

One tip sort of related to this, when shooting moving water;rivers, stream, coast, bring down the shutter speed to about 1/25. Motion blur on water creates a nice effect, almost like you're there.
These is not my pictures but you it shows what I talking about.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b257/zitro_joe/91354104-M.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b257/zitro_joe/67579592.jpg

When shooting at shutter speeds this slow you need to have real steady hands or a stabilization device, tripod or monopod. Also when shooting near water be careful not to get your equipment wet. Most cameras are not weather sealed.

Joe

Boy, do I have a show and tell to go along with zitro's tip. When I get home I'll try to upload a couple of pictures that I shot while playing around last week that, while kind of whacky, really highlight the effect he is talking about.

And, nice pics sueh and zitro.

Stirring and clicking sueh, how imaganitive.

Joe, I love that second one you posted! I love the softness of the waves.

Aliska...I hope you take my word for it, because it's exactly as I stated. No pebbles...it's a dirty old bird bath that is a terra cotta color. I just stirred up the water real quick and pulled out the stick before I shot the picture. I used all auto settings....I was just foolin' around.

If you look to the right in the back, left of the arbor...you will see the bird bath....that's why the color. I didn't change anything. I think I sharpened it up in PP, but that's it.

Last weekend we did a little landscaping to our drive yard. When we finished it was late afternoon and I turned on the sprinklers and went in to get the camera to make a picture of the changes.

The late afternoon sun streaming through the sprinklers caught my attention. So I went against normal photo protocol and shot into the sun. The only real difference in the photos is that the sprinklers sometimes were all shooting in the same direction or not, so fewer drops were in the air.

Like zitro says, you need a fast setting to catch water, and slower settings kind of "freeze" it.

That is so cool Sueh! I love the colors...
I tried your tip Zitro in the sink with water running in a bowl...nothing fantastic but it was cool...
Nice capture Rc...Water is one of my fun things to try to capture...mostly I don't but if that works in sink...I'll need to try that out on some real running water...i did get some nice water shots in the creek with which I'll start on another thread so it won't take forever to load up....

juanital

I love it! And to think it's just a dirty birdbath.