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Went to Asheville this past weekend to the Bele Chere 7's rugby tournament.
Here are a couple samples from the weekend.

Put a ND filter on that waterfall/creek picture

ND?

He means use a Neutral Density filter so you can leave the shutter open longer. It makes for a nice effect with moving water.

Neutral Density filters cut down on the amount of light entering the camera. It allows you to either open the aperture more or increase the time the shutter is open and still get correct exposure.

Originally Posted by jblaze5779

Put a ND filter on that waterfall/creek picture

Rather than that, there's no reason to use anything above the minimum ISO for those kinds of shots (in fact unless you absolutely have to, keep the ISO as low as you can). Additionally, stop your aperture down, not only will this give you more depth of field but for a constant ISO it will require a longer shutter speed, thereby blurring the water nicely.

To do all this you will, of course, need a tripod!

Originally Posted by emorphien

(in fact unless you absolutely have to, keep the ISO as low as you can).

Yeah, the only warning with that is ISO50 can have less DR than 100, and 100 to 200 has the same effect on some bodies. I'm pretty sure some Nikons are best at 200, and I know my 1D (original) is best at 200. It can go to 100 but loses details in the highlights. With my 5D it has 50 and it holds up pretty well... But I only use it to drop the shutter speed when needed. Otherwise I'm on 100 as it is (ever so slightly) better.

Ben