waterfall photography tips Glen Orchy
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- One of the best places in Scotland to practise waterfall photography is Glen Orchy. I head to the stunning Eas Urchaid (Falls of Orchy) to photograph the falls, watch for tips to improve your waterfall photography.
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Glen orchy is stunning. Great images again, love the details in the rocks.
Thanks Yvonne! It's a lovely spot, seems to be getting busier though and lots of trees been felled in the area which is a shame. Glad you liked the rock photos. I spent WAY too long taking close ups of stones and rocks! I could probably do another video just with those!
Great pictures John, I was there last year yes it was very slippery. Thanks for your video.👍
Thanks William! Aye, nearly ended up in the river a couple of times!
tolles Video. Sehr schön erklärt und schöne Fotos entstanden. Der Osmo Pocket macht auch einen guten Job
LG Pierre
I will be going back to this place once Autumn has a firm grip, great shots
Thanks Jeff. It's on my to-do list this Autumn too! I was in the area just yesterday and was sorely tempted to detour back through the glen but by the time i was finished with what I was doing it was after dark. Hopefully be back in the next couple of weeks
Some great shots there John. Thanks for sharing them. Tried that very location about three years ago but discovered the perils of wet rock and bruised my bahookie, and haven't been back!
I almost did the same Alasdair!
Hi John if you have trouble with midges I recommend Avon skin so soft
I'll try that Chas!
Great pics again John! Re the earlier comment - definitely recommend Avon Skin so Soft. It's been a lifesaver over many years in the highlands for me. You might smell a bit "girly" but who cares? I was even getting itchy just watching the video! :-) Keep up the great work!
It's on my shopping list for tomorrow! :)
Nice video and I like the way you let your eye rove quite quickly once the honeypot shot is taken. I find much more in the detail areas these days and there is plenty of room for development of style there vice trying to get the perfect vista shot. I also think you could move in closer and use b&w, over/under exposure, ICM etc to add to that. Great shots all round though! On the SSS front, I found the more you rub it in the less effective it is - drown the little feckers in it 😡
Thanks Mark! I've never tried in camera movement, might give that a go on my next shoot!
I've got some of the avon stuff arriving today, so it'll be put through it's paces tomorrow morning first thing! :)
Yep its slippy there for sure --- still to get a shot from that location :)
Great location!
Trying to guess your third location. Loch Awe and Kilchurn Castle?
That was one of two options Byron! Unfortunately there was a road traffic incident on the A82 as I was recording this video and by the time I'd got back to the car I discovered that I was stuck in Glen Orchy due to road closures and diversions! Took me almost 2hrs to travel 6 miles back out of the glen so I decided to call it a day at that point. Loch Awe, Kilchurn Castle AND St. Conans Kirk will be a future video
As you show the place has changed over the years. 40 years ago no car park and no photographers, just a lone waterfall
very true! The car park wasn't even there first time I visited those falls back in 2011. "Progress" isn't always the same as "improvement"!
I think the intimate shots work well, the long exposures have created a stronger image but the wider shots are dominated by the rocks just because there isn't enough water. Although I shoot quite a lot of 'geological' shots I'd have gone closer in, but each to their own. Its art not science.
Yeah, try the 'Skin So Soft'. It doesn't work for me .... nothing works for me, but I don't come out in hives, as I do with horse flies. Its only the pregnant females that bite and its the Carbon Dioxide trail from your breath they follow, breathe through your nose if you're standing still, it helps ...... briefly !
Wet hard igneous rocks, deadly, better to wear something with a soft rubberised sole (as climbers do) like trainers rather than hard soled boots. Hard soled boots are better for a muddy yielding surface.
I've ordered some of the Avon stuff this morning so hopefully should be midge free in a few days! I seem to attract midges and horseflies in droves! I did Dumgoyne for sunset a month or so ago and found FOURTEEN horsefly bites when I got home. Next 2 days were spent with a fever! The worst of them still hasn't fully healed! Anything that helps against them is fine by me!
@@JohnMcKennaPhotography 'Skin so Soft' won't help with horseflies. Long sleeves is the best bet, but when you're climbing Dumgoyne I guess that's probably not an option. There's a less steep route from the bottom of Killearn that gets you 2/3rds of the way up. Also a 'hidden' waterfall at the head of Boquhan Glen that's a belter, wide angle lens required. I'm ten minutes up the road.
@@iainmc9859 they got me on my chest and back! I'd mistimed the walk and the sun was setting when I was still only half-way up, so I decided to stop and shoot the sunset from where I was (stunning crepuscular rays that night)
I think it was when I stopped, dropped the camera bag and was busy taking shots that they (or it, as it could have been one making multiple attempts!) managed to get up inside my top and set to work. There were no bite holes on the top so I'm assuming it was an "inside job"!
I'm not familiar with that glen or waterfall, I've had a look on the OS map, looks like it might be an interesting route! One for late Autumn perhaps!
@@JohnMcKennaPhotography Yeah, I was there a week ago (I've never seen so many flies crawling on the path, was like a National Geographic documentary of that Red Crab migration) and the fortnight before on the way to another waterfall beside Bell Craig. Only had b&w film and a 50mm lens. Going back with a 30mm and colour film in a week or so's time, weather and autumn colours dependent.