With a couple of hours to spare on Sunday afternoon, I revisited the Falls of Bruar. Even on a grotty wet day there were plenty of opportunities, around the lower bridge.
It’s at least the 8th time I’ve been there – but the geology is impressive as always with the natural arch formed by the river eroding the local rock (mostly psammite, as with much of the Highlands).
Some experiments with Live Composite mode on the Olympus Pen-F, as well as the usual (for me) high-resolution mode; everything taken using a circular polariser and ND4 filter for longer exposure times. Having made initial RAW conversions using RawTherapee, everything has been passed through LuminanceHDR to even-out the white-balance and tonemap for better image tone. (In cases where there’s only a small area of light in the frame, such as these flowing waterfalls, the Pattanaik algorithm can give interesting high-contrast results – set the gamma to about 0.3 and the frame turns mostly black with just the highlights remaining.)
Detail of the water flowing through the gorge, around the natural arch eroded in the rock.
Detail of the water flowing through the gorge, around the natural arch eroded in the rock.
A well-known scene: looking up the gorge approaching the lower bridge at the Falls of Bruar.
I rather liked the traces of foam extruded into white lines on the river surface.
I rather liked the traces of foam extruded into white lines on the river surface.
Some years ago now, I first saw this scene - spent 2 hours in my favourite camera shop in Perth to hunt a tripod, trying to believe in Manfrotto because everyone uses Manfrotto and emerged with a Slik instead - came back the next day and totally failed to make what I wanted of it.
It's been an uphill battle with several visits over the intervening years but I think I'm finally getting close on the rendition I had in mind.
Some years ago now, I first saw this scene - spent 2 hours in my favourite camera shop in Perth to hunt a tripod, trying to believe in Manfrotto because everyone uses Manfrotto and emerged with a Slik instead - came back the next day and totally failed to make what I wanted of it.
It's been an uphill battle with several visits over the intervening years but I think I'm finally getting close on the rendition I had in mind.
Some years ago now, I first saw this scene - spent 2 hours in my favourite camera shop in Perth to hunt a tripod, trying to believe in Manfrotto because everyone uses Manfrotto and emerged with a Slik instead - came back the next day and totally failed to make what I wanted of it.
It's been an uphill battle with several visits over the intervening years but I think I'm finally getting close on the rendition I had in mind.
Some years ago now, I first saw this scene - spent 2 hours in my favourite camera shop in Perth to hunt a tripod, trying to believe in Manfrotto because everyone uses Manfrotto and emerged with a Slik instead - came back the next day and totally failed to make what I wanted of it.
It's been an uphill battle with several visits over the intervening years but I think I'm finally getting close on the rendition I had in mind.
