3 Beaver Creek Falls in the Oregon Coast Range

[AlanL]

A shot of Beaver Creek Falls in the Siuslaw National Forest near Mapleton, Oregon. I normally shoot falls like these with a shutter speed of around 1/4s with my DSLR to smooth out the water flows but with the drone I used burst mode to grab 5 rapid captures. The drone exposure was 1/15s so I used 3 shots to simulate a roughly 1/4s shutter speed.

Beaver Creek Falls

• AlanL
• Nov 9, 2022

Beaver Creek Falls in the Siuslaw National Forest. Taken with a 3 shot burst from a Mavic 3...

Comments and critiques always welcome.

 

[VisualUniverse]

This tuned out well. Will you try it again with a neutral density filter attached? There are in National Forest just 3 hours away. I hope to shoot photos and video next Spring after the nd filters become avail for the Mavic 3 Classic.

 

[AlanL]

This tuned out well. Will you try it again with a neutral density filter attached? There are in National Forest just 3 hours away. I hope to shoot photos and video next Spring after the nd filters become avail for the Mavic 3 Classic.

Thanks - I would be more inclined to go for a higher f/stop before installing ND filters. I use ND filters for my DSLR on a tripod only if I have to and have never used them for still images with my Mavic 3. My understanding is that the ND filters are primarily for video work to control frame rates.

 

[JoelP]

Good idea to blend multiple images!

 

[GFields]

Awesome, Very nice!

 

[AlanL]

Good idea to blend multiple images!

Using Median Blending mode on the stack is a trick often used for waterfall images with a DSLR when you don't have a tripod. Turns out it works well with our drones too

 

[Peter Brennan Photography]

Using Median Blending mode on the stack is a trick often used for waterfall images with a DSLR when you don't have a tripod. Turns out it works well with our drones too

Do you only blend the moving water or the entire picture? The leaves and surrounding areas are still focused very well.

 

[AlanL]

Do you only blend the moving water or the entire picture? The leaves and surrounding areas are still focused very well.

I blended for the entire image. Burst mode is very quick in grabbing the captures which minimizes motion artifacts but just in case I do an auto-align in Photoshop prior to creating a smart object out of the layers. I then use Layer>Smart Object>Stack Mode>Median Blending to finish the process.

 

[Peter Brennan Photography]

I blended for the entire image. Burst mode is very quick in grabbing the captures which minimizes motion artifacts but just in case I do an auto-align in Photoshop prior to creating a smart object out of the layers. I then use Layer>Smart Object>Stack Mode>Median Blending to finish the process.

Great information! Thanks!