Disneyland Waterfall

[JimFox]

Saw this the other day in California Adventure at Disneyland.

iPhone 15 Pro Max

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice result for the water textures considering its a hand held iPhone shot.

 

[Beth]

not bad at all for a handheld phone shot.

 

[ProCaliberTraveler]

I have the same phone, Jim, but I didn’t know you could do long exposure like this with it. I’ll have to explore this.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Interesting result hand held. The phone can probably do even better with some support.

 

[JimFox]

Nice result for the water textures considering its a hand held iPhone shot.

Thanks Alan!

 

[JimFox]

not bad at all for a handheld phone shot.

Thanks, sometimes it takes a couple of shots to get the stationary parts sharp.

 

[JimFox]

I have the same phone, Jim, but I didn’t know you could do long exposure like this with it. I’ll have to explore this.

Thanks Michael. I use an App called Slow Shutter to take these.

 

[JimFox]

Interesting result hand held. The phone can probably do even better with some support.

For sure. If I have my gimbal with me, I will use that to keep the camera steady with the longer shutter speed on the phone.

 

[JimFox]

Nice result for the water textures considering its a hand held iPhone shot.

I wonder if Indigo could do this?

 

[AlanLichty]

I wonder if Indigo could do this?

Yes it can and it would allow you to pick your shutter speed. I bought a small tripod unit that is aimed at phone users for playing around with slow shutter speeds.

 

[JimFox]

Yes it can and it would allow you to pick your shutter speed. I bought a small tripod unit that is aimed at phone users for playing around with slow shutter speeds.

I did try Indigo for a sec on this, or well I looked at trying it. But the shutter speed when low enough was blowing out the scene if I recall. So I used my normal SlowShutter App I downloaded.

I need to spend more then a minute with Indigo I guess, but I haven't cared much for it yet. Are you using it more often?

 

[AlanLichty]

I did try Indigo for a sec on this, or well I looked at trying it. But the shutter speed when low enough was blowing out the scene if I recall. So I used my normal SlowShutter App I downloaded.

I need to spend more then a minute with Indigo I guess, but I haven't cared much for it yet. Are you using it more often?

You definitely need to spend more than a minute with this app. It sets up manual controls for your exposures instead of automatic everything so you need to be aware of the overall exposure when you start fiddling with shutter speed. If for instance you set the speed to 1/2 sec in broad daylight (you do not have f/stop control) yes you will overexpose the shot unless you pull out a ND filter. I am in fact using it most of the time at the moment but not for waterfalls in daylight conditions.

 

[JimFox]

You definitely need to spend more than a minute with this app. It sets up manual controls for your exposures instead of automatic everything so you need to be aware of the overall exposure when you start fiddling with shutter speed. If for instance you set the speed to 1/2 sec in broad daylight (you do not have f/stop control) yes you will overexpose the shot unless you pull out a ND filter. I am in fact using it most of the time at the moment but not for waterfalls in daylight conditions.

Thanks! I was afraid I was missing something. The SlowShutter App, I think does something similar to the Long Exposure Option in Live Mode on the phone, except that it smooths it better somehow. I haven't like the look of moving water with the Long Exposure option.

I might upgrade my iPhone 6S to the iPhone 17 Pro when it comes out. I want the better camera on the Wide angle lens as currently the low light performance with the WA lens on the 15 Pro Max really stinks. But that is supposed to be made equal to the quality that is on the other 2 lenses with the 17.

 

[MonikaC]

Nice job, Jim. And also for the Disneyland workers for creating good looking cascades (at least in B&W).

 

[JimFox]

Nice job, Jim. And also for the Disneyland workers for creating good looking cascades (at least in B&W).

Thanks so much Monika. It's amazing just how real it looks.