{"id":11251,"date":"2017-12-17T10:29:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlebigtravelingcamera.com\/?p=11251"},"modified":"2017-12-17T10:29:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:29:34","slug":"falling-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlebigtravelingcamera.com\/?p=11251","title":{"rendered":"Falling Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are many great places on earth but just a couple are magical. This is one of them. The Plitivice Lakes in Croatia.<\/p>\n

This is the second time that we visited the place. Last year on a beautiful and sunny late autumn day.<\/p>\n

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This time we chose to walk the less popular track but less popular doesn’t mean it’s not busy. The Plitivce Lakes are anything but a secret escape. There are a lot of tourists and also a lot of people with tripods. Problem is: The wooden walkways are narrow and the swing like crazy when people are passing by. Not the best location for a tripod. I didn’t bring a tripod but a backpack full of camera gear. At the end I exclusively shot with the XF 12-24\/4 OIS. I great lens and IS helped a lot to deal with the shaky walkways.<\/p>\n

The water is crystal clear. It’s amazing. Just have a look at the image above.<\/p>\n

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Most of the time I tried to keep the visitors out of the frame but I could not resist to take a picture of the orange dressed monk on the bridge. Shooting without a tripod means that you can react much faster. And thanks to OIS I was still able to shoot at 1\/15s to blur the water.<\/p>\n

We live in great times.<\/p>\n

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On my business trips to Asia I prefer to shoot with the XF 14\/2.8 R but nothing beats the XF 10-24\/4 OIS here. Sometimes I even wished for a slightly wider lens like for the image above. Obviously I could not step back so I leaned backwards just enough to not fall into the water and took the shot.<\/p>\n

On the right side you can see a group of tourist. There is no way to shoot from the tripod here. Beside the happily swinging walkway you would be a major obstacle and there is a high risk that someone would trip over your tripod. This is true for many touristic spots in Croatia. They are far too busy to shoot from a tripod. Tripods are perfect for lonely land- or seascapes, everywhere else they are just a burden. Speaking of burden: Next time I will only take my camera with the 10-24 and two spare batteries. There is no need to bring anything else.<\/p>\n

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The more I shoot the more I realise that small is beautiful. Long ago when I was shooting film I always traveled with a heavy camera bag. And because there were no IS lenses and because my film of choice was Velvia 50 (that was only ISO 40 (seems that Fuji had already a different view on ISO values back then)) I had to shoot from a tripod.<\/p>\n

Today all it needs is a good camera with a lens that fits the purpose. Here it has to be a real wide angle lens to cover as much of the beautiful scenery as possible and it has to be a zoom because there is no chance to walk closer or take a step back most of the time. Life for photographers has become simple. Sometimes (in good light) all it takes is the phone in your pocket. And a beautiful location of course.<\/p>\n

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