. The American annual of photography. PHOTOGRAPHING WATERFALLS By HARRY G. PHISTER O the photographer, and especially the amateur,a waterfall is always an attractive subject, butone of the most difficult to photograph satisfac-torily. Located, as they usually are, betweenhigh banks covered with vegetation, of a non-actinic color, it is next to impossible to photograph them, inthe usual way, and obtain detail both in the water and the darkwooded banks. An exposure sufficiently short to show detailin the water would only result in inky black banks, in the re-sulting print, while an exposure long
. The American annual of photography. PHOTOGRAPHING WATERFALLS By HARRY G. PHISTER O the photographer, and especially the amateur,a waterfall is always an attractive subject, butone of the most difficult to photograph satisfac-torily. Located, as they usually are, betweenhigh banks covered with vegetation, of a non-actinic color, it is next to impossible to photograph them, inthe usual way, and obtain detail both in the water and the darkwooded banks. An exposure sufficiently short to show detailin the water would only result in inky black banks, in the re-sulting print, while an exposure long enough for the bankswould render the water blurred and without detail. I have found it very satisfactory to give an exposure suffi-ciently long to secure detail in the darkest portions of the view,but instead of giving one prolonged exposure, I set the shutterat 1/25 second—this being the speed which renders water, in 226. o o w ou 227 motion, in the most satisfactory manner—and snap it a suffi-cient number of times to secure the correct exposure. Ofcourse a tripod must be used and care taken not to move thecamera between exposures. The shght over-exposure of thewater does no harm but, instead, it tends to reduce the ex-cessive contrast and produces a more harmonious picture. I have to thank the Eastman Kodak Co. for this tip whichwas given in their advertisements a few years ago, but I amincHned to think it is not used as much as it should be. The two reproductions given herewith will serve to illus-trate the advantage of this method of exposure as you will findabundant detail over the entire prints with no blurring of thewater. The negative of Chittenango Falls (Figure i) was given20/25 seconds given in 1/25 second intervals, and the one ofFairy Falls (Figure 2) 10/25 in the same manner. It is best to use as large a stop as possible and thus reducethe number of separate exposures. KAL
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