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Spilling Water - Take II

The last time I tried to take a photo of water spilling from the Chickamauga dam I wasn't happy with the results, mainly because I had to use such a long exposure to get details at night. This time around I decided to intentionally shoot at ISO 800 and embrace the inherent noisiness by trying to be artsy. By using that ISO (the highest my camera will go) I was able to shoot this with my shutter speed at 0.8 seconds, with the aperture open as far as it would go. As a result, you can actually see the violent churning just below the floodgates!

The water level on this side of the dam is the highest I've seen it since we moved here. The fishing platform just this side of the dam (which is normally about 12-14 feet above the water) is almost underwater, and is actually closed off right now.

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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2009

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