UHHHMAAAZING Flowing Waterfall Photos in 3 Easy Steps | David Molnar Blog

There are 3 steps to creating UHHHMAAAZING Flowing Waterfall photos.

1. You need a sturdy iPhone tripod to capture flowing water trails with a long exposure.

It is absolutely essential that you have a tripod so the camera can stay perfectly still wh. Some of the pictures could be capturing for over 30 seconds. and as a human you can’t hold the camera still for longer than 1/60th of a second. So you certainly can’t hold a camera still for 5-30 seconds

This “long exposure” is what causes the movement in the picture. I recommend the Gorillapod [1] *. I actually jury rig it onto my professional tripod. The cool thing about the Gorillapod is that you can attached it to anything or set it on the ground as a stand alone tripod.

Now that you know you need a tripod, the next step is finding the right app for you to capture that long exposure.

2. You have to have a good app that can slow down the shutter and take a long exposure. There are two apps I recommend. AvgCamPro [2] and SlowShutter [ 3] .* Click the links to download them.

FIRST OPTION: AvgCamPro: [4]

1. Once you have your camera mounted on your tripod, open up AvgCamPro and go to settings. and
2. Set the “Number of Pictures” to be a minimum of 32. The more pictures the longer it takes but also the smoother the water will look. Leave the Shooting interval on “1”, and set the timer to your preference. I leave it at 4 seconds.
Note: the reason you use a timer is so that once you press the button the camera has enough time to stop vibrating after you touch it before it starts to take the pictures. If the camera is still moving while AvgCamPro is shooting the photo will not turn out.
3. Once your done with the settings press the “Camera/ Shutter” icon in the bottom center and the timer will start counting down in the bottom right corner.
4. AvgCamPro will start shooting and counting down the number of shots it has left to take. You’ll see the water get increasingly more smooth throughout the capture time. Make sure not to touch the camera so th at it stays perfectly still on your tripod.

And voila!

SECOND OPTION: SlowShutter: [5]

You can also use SlowShutter which I just started experimenting with but has amazing results and possibly even smoother flowing water motion blur.

SlowShutter works very similar to AvgCamPro in that you MUST have a tripod before you shoot.

1. Make sure these standard settings are in effect when shooting waterfalls. The Capture mode should be on Motion Blur, The Blur Strength should be on “Maximum” and the Capture Duration should be at least “8 seconds” if not longer.

2. I also recommend have the timer at 3 seconds. You can change it in the settings icon wheel.

3. Press the shutter button and the capture will start after the 3 second timer.

4. and Voila! Beautiful waterfall trails!

3. You need to learn to edit to re-create the feeling you felt when you saw the scene with your own eyes.

Once you have the photo captured the last and final step is edit to recreate the emotion you felt while you were there. In my book iPhone Only Photography that releases in a few weeks, I’ll teach you this super important final step.

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Recommended:

Apps: AvgCamPro [6]  and SlowShutter [7] .*

Tripod: Gorillapod [8] *

(* Affiliate link: At no additional cost to you I may make a small commission if you purchase. I do appreciate your support.)

Links

1. ^{^} Gorillapod (www.amazon.com)
2. ^{^} AvgCamPro (itunes.apple.com)
3. ^{^} SlowShutter (itunes.apple.com)
4. ^{^} AvgCamPro: (itunes.apple.com)
5. ^{^} SlowShutter: (itunes.apple.com)
6. ^{^} AvgCamPro (itunes.apple.com)
7. ^{^} SlowShutter (itunes.apple.com)
8. ^{^} Gorillapod (www.amazon.com)

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