Summer 2013 - What are you doing with all this rain?

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Too much rain certainly makes falls less detailed (as you don't get to see much of the rock underneath the water, and often the flow misses some bounces on the way down). I found that the bursts of rain that we have also tends to make some streams very muddy. Brown water does not make for great landscape photos. That even screwed me up this weekend when a very picturesque part i was shooting on lake Erie had a creek pouring muddy water into the beach. Still swimmable, but didn't look so great in the photos.

For waterfall shooting, I like overcast skies and moderate flow. Get the white balance set so the frothy water is pure white and the spot where the water hits the bottom is the brightest spot in the photo. Although I don't object to high flow, lower flow, as long as there is some white to the falls, allows for me to focus in closer to small drops.

Water hasn't been my issue this year... cloud-cover has been. I'm only free to shoot weekends and lately the skies have been clear every weekend. So I'm just shooting lakes instead.
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