The many, many fine examples submitted by OTHER bloggers for this week’s theme have inspired me to delve into my archives and experiment with some rudimentary post-processing with my Apple Photos functionality. I’m too economically conservative (cheap) to pay for Lightroom et al.
Following is a super-zoom of Takakaw Falls in Yoho National Park from farrrrr away, first ‘au natural’, then tweaked. Exposure and saturation were increased, shadow and brightness decreased, in Apple Photos edit mode..


Next is an unedited, somewhat silky, waterfall. This was shot with my Panasonic ZS-200 with a slower shutter speed of 1/30 second. Handheld, by the way.

Another silky waterfall (silkies R us), from a distance, handheld again, steadied of course:


Finally, we have the iPhone HDR ‘LIVE’ shortcut. The still shot captures the water drops in mid-air, but converting a duplicate from Live to Long Exposure gives the silky effect.


Exposure is a work in progress.
Continue to be kind to everything, everyone, and their exposure.
I love them all, and what fun playing with these images.
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Thank you. Yes, ‘effects’!
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This is great, John. I honestly don’t know why you don’t like your silky waterfalls. I think they are fine š
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Thank you. They often turn white when attempting a shot with the Panasonic.
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Part 2 is great John! My favorite is the last, your I Phone image. It really did that in camera? Wow. Why are we carrying around cameras?
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š± I’m gobsmacked also. š¤·āāļøš¤Ŗ Looking forward to your Challenge this weekend.
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I’m with Anne on this one John. Good for you for revisiting some earlier work to “play” with exposure. Loved your closing example. Apple’s product has come a very long way and the price is definitely right š. I must admit although I am a HUGE Apple fan I’m still really ticked off about how they dropped support of Aperture in which I had ALL of my images and was faced with a massive job of converting to L/R. š”
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Yes, they have no qualms about dumping users and apps. š¤Æ
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John, I really like your “silky” waterfall imagees, you did a great job holding the camera steady. My favorite though is your last picture taken with the iPhone!
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Thank you Sylvia!
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Lovely
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Great experiments, John. Perfect for the challenge. Your waterfalls are lovely. Very silky indeed. š
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Thank you Patti. Why do we like silky waterfalls?! š¤·āāļø
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Um….no idea!!
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Wonderful selection John.
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Thank you!
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I really enjoyed seeing these falls of water silky and otherwise!
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Thank you Anne.
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Beautiful images – impressive job with the handheld slow shutter speeds
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Thank you Nora. š
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These are fascinating photos.These waterfalls caught my attention. Anita
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Fantastic what you can do these days with smart phones and various apps. You had such fantastic results with your ‘silky’ waterfalls – love them all!
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Thank you kindly. š
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