Extraordinary Shots Close to Home

There is nothing like visiting some place beautiful and interesting and capturing extraordinary shots. I shot most of these photos at Falls Creek Falls, Idaho. I woke up early to hopefully catch the sunrise, but it turned out that there was a thick cloud of fog hanging in the sky.

I wanted to capture the smooth, blurry water that most beautiful water fall photos have. You have to have a long exposure to get that effect, and since the sun was rising I could only have my shutter speed 1/4 second. I would have liked to do a longer one, but even with my ISO at 100 I was getting too much light in. I tried doing some editing in Photoshop to add more color to the skies.

If you would like some tips on water fall photography, Alex Wise has a great tutorial. Go get yourself some extraordinary shots!