Today I am heading to the Ogwen Valley in Snowdonia to shoot a couple of the waterfalls, It has been quite a while since I have been here.
Parking on the corner lay by I have crossed over the road and taken the path that follows the base of Pen-y-ole- wen around towards the weir. The weather is very overcast and drizzling a bit, but I will get a few images.
Having reached the weir I have set up the tripod to do some long exposure images with the canon 5dsr and 17-40L lens. using a combination of 0.6 soft nd grad filter to prevent the sky blowing out and either a Lee 10 stop Big or 6 stop Little stopper to give the long exposure. I will experiment with both, but think the little stopper will give best results with a slightly shorter exposure compared to the 10 stop and therefor I will get a bit of movement detail in the water instead of just a white blur with a very long exposure.
10 seconds f14
13 seconds f14
Full wide view 15 seconds f14
Its raining a bit now so I will head back over the road and go up to the Ogwen falls next to the wooden footbridge which is at the start of the Cym Idwal path. I stop to take a phone shot of the old bridge under the main road with Y-Garn in the background.
Looking down the Nant Ffrancon Valley towards Anglesey.
Tryfan and the gateway to Idwal.
I have set up the tripod just right of the bridge, clambering around the side of the waterfall for a slightly different perspective than is normally shot here. low cloud is moving quite quickly across the top of Tryfan over to the left.
15 seconds with little stopper
Now its time to go back to the car and drive to the opposite end of the Lake below Tryfan to go up the water fall path opposite. This is a very boggy wet area and the paths are not very clear after the first section. its a case of picking a dryish route following the Afon y fron river upwards to get enough height to view the valley.
I have climbed up to the first main waterfall section which gives a lovely view across to Tryfan and the Glyders over Llyn Ogwen. The cloud is changing fast with the stiff breeze, I have managed to get this image with the light raking across the Glyders ridge , The Devils Kitchen and across to Y-Garn.
A short 1/4 second exposure was enough with the very fast flowing water.
After moving a bit higher up to the next set of falls , I have been waiting ages for a bit of light when the sun breaks through the thick cloud and illuminates the foreground just long enough for me to get this image. I was going to wait around for sunset but after half an hour the cloud is just getting thicker so I will head back down now.
1/4 second f14
On the way down I got photobombed by a sheep in front of Tryfan .
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