Cascading Life

Cascading Life, Ridgley, Tasmania – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery.

This is an unframed, limited edition collection landscape photography print of only 25 units. It is printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl papers, structured to refract the highest values in colour and detail. It’s high-quality ink absorbing layer enables exceptional image quality with enormously detailed sharpness, and a very broad colour range, providing archival permanency of your artwork for over 100 years.

Canon 5D Mk2, 14mm, F11, 10 sec, ISO 100, no filter, processed in Lightroom.

I had heard of this waterfall about 15 years earlier to this image, and how you could literally sit at the base of one part looking up into the upper half and at the same time looking over the edge of the lower half. Two falls in one, awesome. Little did I know just how beautiful these falls would actually be. I spent nearly 3 hours here, looking at angles, studying the speed of the flow of water to find my optimal look in the long exposure. It was cold, rainy and just perfect. I walked away grateful at having captured numerous images of this beautiful area.

Cascading Life, Ridgley, Tasmania – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery.

When you photograph waterfalls, there is a technique known as the ponytail effect, that is determined by your cameras shutter speed and how your waterfall looks. I would encourage you to experiment with varying shutter speeds of under 1 second to many seconds or even minutes to see the difference. I look for one continuous line of flow in the water, over the waterfall and through the scene. This is the ponytail effect and it can really help to create a sense of continuous movement in you image.