Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:
Boater wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:
Yesterday, my wife and I went to North Georgia to enjoy a quiet
Thanksgiving Day in the mountains.

We visited a beautiful waterfall, Minnehaha Falls, off of the beaten
path. It was about a 5 miles drive on a one lane dirt/gravel road
so it really was quiet and secluded, especially on Thanksgiving.

Of course, I had to screw around with mother nature. Absolutely
NONE of my photos come close to the way it looked in real life.

This is the way it looks in real life:

http://www.fs.fed.us/conf/ne-ga-wate...ha-falls.shtml

This slide show shows how an amateur can screw up perfection:

http://outdoors.webshots.com/slideshow/568959352vWicBu

PS - If you move the mouse to the bottom of the screen an option bar
will pop up so you can speed up the slide show so each photo is only
up for 3 secs. No one really wants to look at them any longer than 3
seconds.


You can also get entirely out of the slide show and look at the shots
individually, and at a larger size. When you do that, though, they
look fuzzy and out of focus, starting with photo #1. But I suspect
that has more to do with sizing/resizing for the photo site than for
the actual photos being out of focus. I liked #8322, because it gave
me a sense of the scale of the falls.

I think that was a photo of about 1/2 of the falls. When I tried to get
all of the falls in the photo, i didn't like the way it looked. No
detail, so I didn't even snap the photo. The photos were taken using a
tripod, and using the timer with a 2 sec delay, so my hand was not on
the camera when it was taken. So if they were fuzzy and out of focus it
was the result of operator error.


If that is the case, maybe you need a heavier tripod. What are you
using? D-SLRs are kinda heavy, compared to film cameras, and require a
chunkier tripod. But I wonder if "the problem" lies elsewhere, and not
necessarily with the "operator." Using a tripod and self-timer should
produce snappy results. I'm sure you can focus your camera properly.