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The Iconic Stob Dearg & River Coppull Waterfall, Scotland

To shoot or not to shoot? That is the question. Actually there's never a moment of doubt in my mind as to whether to capture on camera an iconic and well known viewpoint. Sure, thousands before me have taken this scene but I don't worry about that, I simply want to do the very best job that I can in photographing it myself.

 

To that end, I am delighted with this image. It was shot while running my Glencoe photography workshop. This was the composition that I wanted but it involved clambering down into the pit as I call it to get water side as opposed to standing high up on the ledge above my head.

 

I had to shoot with my 16-35mm lenses at 16mm on a full frame Canon 5D MK4 to capture it the way I wanted to.

 

I hope you all like it. The coordinates for these falls are 56.647564, -4.866706

 

Canon 5D MK4

Canon 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm

f14

15 secs

ISo50

Nisi Polariser

Nisi 0.9 ND Medium ND Grad filter

Nisi 10 Stop ND filter

 

Gitzo GT3543XLS carbon fibre tripod

Gitzo GS3121LVL low profile levelling base

Manfrotto 405 geared tripod head

Mindshift Backlight 36L Bag

 

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Uploaded on April 1, 2018
Taken on November 17, 2017