Shot From Thursday’s Shoot (Click For Larger Views)
Last night I got to shoot with two really great guys: Scott Eccleston and Mark Hensley. It had been gray and very overcast all day, and by the time they picked me up (around 4:00 pm) it was already starting to rain. They asked if I wanted to postpone the shoot and try for another day, and I said, “No way—let’s just shoot something that looks good in bad weather.” I asked if there where any creeks or streams nearby, and Scott knew of one near his home–an old mill with a small waterfall, so we headed there.
What’s great about shooting streams in weather like this is that the dark skies overhead, combined with the shade from the trees, force your shutter to stay open longer to make a proper exposure, which gives you that silky water effect (like you see in the photos shown here). In Aperture Priority mode, I set my Aperture to f/22 which made the camera give me shutter speeds anywhere from about 4 seconds to 13 seconds long (the longer the shutter stays open, the silkier the water gets). The other benefit of shooting in light rain, or ideally just after it, is that the rocks look much better when wet, and the color of the foliage looks much more saturated and colorful when wet, too.
We had a great time, and I made two new friends (who are both top-notch photographers). We might shoot together again this weekend at some of the locations we planned on going to before we got rained out (on our way to the second location, it started pouring and we called it a day). My thanks to Scott and Mark for their gracious hospitality and for sharing their wonderful mill stream with me. 
Lots of posts today (four big ones), including my Friday News Wrap-up, so scroll on down, bunky!
fabulous photos.
what lens did you use Scott?
Have a great day.
Hey Scott,
I love the mill shot. It looks like the house is floating on top of the stream. Are you using mostly Lightroom to process?
Cheers,
Laurel
The Photo Enthusiast
Hey Scott, all the shots from Maine are really nice. I was up there about 15 years ago in the Bar Harbour area. Here’s my question: Do you ever sleep? I notice a lot of your posts are at 1 in the morning and then 7 the same morning. I guess you just really love your job but, You’re on Vacation. Oh well.
Take care.
mike meyer
Scott, beautiful shots and you were smart to head to locations that look great under bad/rainy weather! Also, when you’re posting more than one image into a post on your blog, and since you’re using the “lightbox” Javascript tool (I love this tool!), in your anchor ‘href’ tags, append “[main-trip-2007]” (or something to designate this series of photos) to the tail end of your “rel=’lightbox’” tag, just inside the last single quote. (You might already know how to do this, just wanted to check) But this will allow one to navigate between these three images all within the lightbox window.
Make sense?
Again, love your imagery and LOVE your blog. Keep up the excellent work. Check out my site too, when you have some spare cycles.
I was wondering on the sharpness of the images using f22. What was the diffraction like?
Any way to get some more of the technical data on the shots you picked? Shutter speed, aperture, focal length, et..
Great photos and they look sharp on my screen, but I was wondering about prints.
Beautiful. Your pictures inspire me to work harder on my own.