Date Taken: 10/16/2013
Location: Looking Glass Falls
There’s a rule that some of us waterfall photographers go by called the ten o’clock rule. If you want to avoid the crowds and harsh light when shooting a waterfall, then get there before ten o’clock. With Looking Glass Falls in North Carolina, I would change that to the eight o’clock rule….this place is popular…..Really popular. It’s right by Rt. 276 heading down the mountain towards Brevard and it seems like everyone and their brother stops there. Unfortunately I didn’t get there nearly early enough when I stopped there to try, and I said try, to get a few nice photographs. There were about a half dozen folks set up downstream, so I waited for them to finish and then made my way down to where they had been shooting and set up. I had the place to myself for maybe 5 or 10 minutes when a workshop of about 20 photographers showed up and of course a couple of them had to run right out in front of the waterfall and start shooting. Time to move on to the next waterfall, unless I wanted to wait them out. The great thing about North Carolina, is that there are plenty of waterfalls to shoot, so I moved on.
Camera: Nikon D-90
Lens: NIKKOR 10–24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED
Focal Length: 13mm
ISO: 100
Shutter: 3/4 second
Aperture: F/13
Filters: circular polarizer
Exposure: Manual
How I Got This Shot: I set the camera on a tripod with a portrait composition downstream from the waterfall, so I could get some of the pretty fall color above the falls as well as some foreground interest with the boulder and it’s nice green foliage on the left and the ripples in the stream on the right.
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- Additional photographs by Jeff Burcher Photography
- Categories where this photo is found: Fall Color, Waterfalls