15 Stunning Examples of Waterfall Photography

Aug 20, 2009

15 Stunning Examples of Waterfall Photography

Categories: Cool Photos, Featured

Written By: admin

Very few photographs can be more stunning than a well executed photo of a waterfall. Just as they are one of the most beautiful things in nature, good photographers are able to make them one of the favourite subjects of photography fans everywhere. We think this selection of creative commons shots by various photographers is among the best we have seen. If you’d like to know more about taking photos like these, don’t forget to check out the resource links at the bottom of the post.

Seljalandsfoss by orvaratli.

Iguazu Falls, Brazil by Mr Punto.

The Stars of Niagara Falls by John A Ryan Photography.

Autumn at Rock Island Falls by Lee McCain.

Upper Falls at Caney Creek by K.W. Sanders.

The water music by Shchukin.

Buderim Falls by Garry.

Seclusion by TimboDon.

Frozen Swallow Falls by Zachstern.

Sitting Lady Falls by Quas.

Hope by Pardesi.

Hunua Falls by Chris Gin.

Brook View by Just Us 3.

Dardagna Falls by Marco Magrini.

Bridal Veil Falls by Avi.

Resources for Waterfall Photography

janrieger

Beautiful. I prefer the ones without special effects. Water doesn't need to be gussied up and glamorous. Natural looks better. I love Iguazu Falls!

janrieger

Beautiful. I prefer the ones without the special effects. I like water to look natural, not glamorous and gussied up!

Robert Ouellet

Just great photos of waterfalls.

jain

These are beautiful pictures but they look fake? The softness is too much. I prefer the water to look more realistic.

Amit

beautiful capture..my first try with waterfall photography was nt dat gud..as i used a fast shutter speed and gt lots of grains in my pic..just a pic taken for experimenting with slow shutter speed & filters is one of the favorite one that i hav caught!

Mia Rose

Just makes me realize how many wonderful places there still are in the world for me to see. Thank you so much for posting this collection of stunning waterfalls. I especially love Iguazu Fallis in black and white.

Warm wishes,
Mia Glanville

fiona3012

Ice falls - just stunning.

Paul Bates Photography

I really enjoyed the 1st and 9th photo. The icy waterfall is pretty amazing and the first one just feels like a nice, warm place to go. Thanks for sharing!

Paul Bates
Travel, Nature & Waterfall Photos

Stunner

These are breathtaking!

Mick Mc Carthy

Stunning set of waterfall photography , thanks to the photographers and publishers for the inspiration .

Susan

These are wonderful shots. I love shooting waterfalls and am always intrigued by how others shoot them. Now I need to go and visit each one for myself!

C M Brooks

You're right, these are stunning. Some great monochrome work - somehow the beauty of the water seems to come through most strongly without the distraction of some of the strong colours in this selection. But congratulations on putting it together - most interesting and it wakens the travel bug for sure!

Peter Fauland

For sure one of the more often photographed subjects. But this selection shows real master pieces ...

Paul Sveda

Some inspiration in these photos and great work on the part of the photographers.

Cheers,

P.

Katie

Beautiful pic's.

alper

Fake Photo...hepsiylede oynanmış

Mike Criss

They are stunning. I tried HDR with some waterfall shots and they turned out well.

http://www.akphotograph.com/Alaska%20Blog/?p=730

Margaret/ Motts

Beautiful, I can't wait to go to these places. :)

James Fuller

Beautiful! But each photo is also a link, and somebody needs to help the admins grasp that right-clicking on an image doesn't mean "I'm stealing your content", it means "I want to open this link IN A NEW TAB so I don't have to navigate away from lightstalking.com." As it is, if you want to follow the link you can't do that without either going to the trouble of turning off javascript to disable the silly little pop-up and re-enable tabbed browsing, or else leaving lightstalking.com and its advertisers behind--heh, maybe not exactly what they would want if they thought about it.

admin

Ctrl + Left Click will open it in a new tab too. :)

Yona

Beautiful. The water almost doesn't look real. I think the water music by Shchukin is absolutely mesmerizing.

Aggie Villanueva

I prefer the veiling of water. When I see these places in person, the real-life awe and beauty looks more like these photos to my eyes, than do the short exposure shots, that look harsh and unrealistic to me. I believe it's all in how each individual sees reality, because reality is subjective, especially to an artistic eye.

As to the blown out areas, my solution to that is Singh-Ray nuetral density filters in varying stops. I wouldn't shoot without them.

These are beautiful and inspiring shots. Thankx for posting them.

Jackie

simply beautiful!!

Tobbi

Really amazing photos.

Liz Douglas

Those are fantastic. Love your website

Rick

Bridal Veil falls is a beautiful place to photograph. Unfortunately, this shot is far from one of the best I've seen of it. This one seems to be terribly blown out. For some great shots here, check out Gary Randall's fantastic work on Flickr.

Luiz Ferreira

One side is in Brazil, and the other is in Argentina, look at the map ;)

Luiz

Tacio Philip

Mauricio, go study geography... dããããã

Mauricio

Iguazu Falls are in Argentina!!! NOT in Brazil!!! The Brazil border is near the falls but only near. All you can see in the picture is inside Argentine borders

Carol Halbert

awesome!!!

TB5918

Nice assortment of shots. Know if any of these are HDR composites? Seeing pictures like these always makes me want to dust off my camera and shoot... well, anything!

Gobi

Excellent! Nice pictures.

admin

@Rich - Fair call - I kind of prefer the softer ones, but I guess it's down to personal taste. Thanks for stopping by!

@Barb - Glad you approve!

@Ilan - Had some problems with twitter software yesterday and ended up unfollowing a bunch of people that I didn't want to!! Arghghg! Should be right again now!

Ilan

Well, although these not 'hard' photos to make, they still look very impressive. The 1st and the 3rd looks .. insanely beautiful.
Thank you for this collection :)

(BTW, I tried to DM you on twitter, and couldn't from some reason :\ )

Barb

Wow incredible

Rich

Reminds me of some of mine, only I don't push the softness to quite the extreme presented here. If I were to choose, they would be ovaratli and Mafrini pieces. I like the light and the power of ovaratli's pieces without the over-exposure and while Magrini has overexposed his b&W treatment is excellent.