{"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\/%20","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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    Zoomed in to 200 mm to capture the top part of the falls<\/p>\n

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

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    Added detail in the rocks with sharpening, used the\u00a070-200mm to zoom in and avoid the sky
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    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

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

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

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    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
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    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

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    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

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

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

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

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    This went down really well on facebook!
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    Wider shot with the\u00a070-200mm with small fall on the left\u00a0\"219<\/a><\/p>\n

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