There are several small waterfalls in Kledang Hill along the way  in the jungle track.  All of them are connected with each other by the continuous stream.  The water was cold.  And the smal waterfalls generate breeze which is good to cool our body down.  We stopped at this waterfall for a while to take a break.  SiewPeng and her sister was waiting for me while I took these pictures and also the mushroom pictures.

Can you see the difference between these two pictures?  Yes, the water is diferent.  The above picture has smoother water flow whereas the water is sharper and freezed in the picture below.

It can be controlled using the camera shutter speed setting.  Using the longer shutter speed will make the water look smoother, and on the other hand if the shutter speed is shorter, it makes the water freeze.  Which one do you like?

The shutter speed control usually depends on the subject of the picture.  If we want to create an artistic look of the waterfall which the water look soft and smooth, then long time exposure is used.  Otherwise, from what we usually see on the shampoo advetisment, the pretty girs shake their hair and drops of water can be clearly seen, we should used extremely fast or short exposure.  These are the two extreme different methods when taking the same subject - the water.

I did not use tripod while taking the smoother waterfall picture at 1/10 sec.  That’s why it’s a but blur.  This is the problem when taking photo using slow shuter speed.  Our hands are always shaky because of our blood flow, heart beat and breaths that we cannot stop them even a second.  That’s why the tripod is required.  I got a tripod but it is too bulky to bring it everywhere.  May be I should get another thinner tripod.

Shutter speed is one of my favorite control on the camera setting, if you are interested, you can see what have I produced using the long time exposure photography.