{"id":5160,"date":"2015-05-05T20:18:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5160"},"modified":"2024-07-24T14:29:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T14:29:32","slug":"englands-biggest-waterfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/englands-biggest-waterfall","title":{"rendered":"England’s Biggest Waterfall"},"content":{"rendered":"

England’s Biggest Waterfall is High Force – Teesdale!<\/h1>\n

It may only be 70 feet tall, minute compared to the giants in Yosemite or South America, but High Force, high up in Teesdale, is very impressive in flood – as it was on this day!<\/p>\n

With it being winter, you can see the falls from the road through the leafless trees. Its too obscured to create a decent shot, but\u00a0adds to the build up.<\/p>\n

I tried 2 techniques on the day –<\/p>\n

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  1. using the 70-200mm I’d do fast shutters to capture the texture of water flowing over the cliff. These had fast shutters and honed in on then water rather than the surroundings<\/li>\n
  2. using the 17-40mm – I used a 10 stop filter and ND grad to create a surreal texture in the water and clouds – leaving the rocks being the only “real” looking thing in the scene<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Here are a selection of shots of England’s Biggest Waterfall<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Really bright sun behind the falls on this one<\/p>\n

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    \"England's<\/a><\/p>\n

    Zoomed in to 200 mm to capture the top part of the falls<\/p>\n

    \"213<\/a><\/p>\n

    Again with the\u00a070-200mm, even closer in<\/p>\n

    \"210<\/a><\/p>\n

    Added detail in the rocks with sharpening, used the\u00a070-200mm to zoom in and avoid the sky
    \n    \"200<\/a><\/p>\n

    Showing the contrast between hard, linear rock structures, and the chaotic flow of the water<\/p>\n

    \"192<\/a>70-200mm showing perhaps the best demonstation of the flow of water as it splashes down<\/p>\n

    \"191<\/a><\/p>\n

    70-200mm taken from the approach path – this is quite a distance away, yet it’s already really loud and impressive<\/p>\n

    \"190<\/a><\/p>\n

    Black and white version from the same view point<\/p>\n

    \"183<\/a><\/p>\n

    Wider shot from the approach path\"181<\/a> \"180<\/a><\/p>\n

    Close up to the falls, we see the right falls – a very rare sight as they only flow when the tees is very high.<\/p>\n

    used the 17-40, a 10 stop filter and ND grad over the clouds to get a 30 second photo
    \n    \"107<\/a><\/p>\n

    Same set up as the above, just gone portrait<\/a> and used the boulders to “point” to the water fall. Clouds were blowing past pretty fast as you can see!<\/p>\n

    \"103<\/a><\/p>\n

    Heavily cropped shot as there was lots of water blobs on the left of the shot – made this square shot and kept a little flare in the dark areas for interest, just love how sharp the stone looks in the foreground<\/p>\n

    \"102<\/a><\/p>\n

    Tripod higher up on this one, so you get less emphasis on the foreground<\/a> boulders.<\/p>\n

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    \"099<\/a><\/p>\n

    Taking advantage of the bright sunshine to get a high contrast shot<\/p>\n

    \"209<\/a><\/p>\n

    Didn’t get many from this view point because of spray wetting the lens, but shows both falls nicely<\/p>\n

    \"089<\/a><\/p>\n

    This went down really well on facebook!
    \n    \"217<\/a> \"216<\/a><\/p>\n

    Wider shot with the\u00a070-200mm with small fall on the left\u00a0\"219<\/a><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    England’s Biggest Waterfall is High Force – Teesdale! It may only be 70 feet tall, minute compared to the giants in Yosemite or South America, but High Force, high up in Teesdale, is very impressive in flood – as it was on this day! With it being winter, you can see the falls from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_22977785_22977785":"","facebook_10157410341118549_123005067715685":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,292,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landscapes","category-photography","category-yorkshire-3","category-yorkshire-dales-2"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/102-tynedale-teesdale-high-force.jpg",1000,1000,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/102-tynedale-teesdale-high-force-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/102-tynedale-teesdale-high-force-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/102-tynedale-teesdale-high-force.jpg",1000,1000,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/102-tynedale-teesdale-high-force.jpg",1000,1000,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/102-tynedale-teesdale-high-force.jpg",1000,1000,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/102-tynedale-teesdale-high-force.jpg",1000,1000,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"McFade","author_link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"England’s Biggest Waterfall is High Force – Teesdale! 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