Our Apprentice says…

In order to capture this last shot I used a combination of techniques that Carmen had shown me throughout the day. I filled the frame with my subject, included a tree trunk in the foreground, and stopped my lens right down to f/22 to increase my exposure time, which would, in turn, make the waterfall silky and smooth. However, even after doing this, and adding +1/3 stop of exposure compensation at ISO100, I still couldn’t get it silky enough, so I used Carmen’s Lee Little Stopper, a 6-stop neutral density filter, to achieve a 15-second exposure time that turned the water beautifully blurry and milky.