What are some tips for shooting waterfalls with my digital camera?

What are some tips for shooting waterfalls with my digital camera?

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Waterfalls are a great subject to shoot. My first tip? Don't get too close - you'll get wet. You have to decide whether to do a wide angle lens to get the whole waterfall in, or take a telephoto and zoom in to just get a detail. One of the things you also need to do when shooting waterfalls is to vary the shutter speed. Whether you're going to do that in aperture parity or shutter parity mode doesn't matter, but you want to speed the shutter speed up to freeze the action, or you want to slow the shutter speed down to blur and get the waterfall all milky and artistic looking. That's what you do with waterfalls to make it look great in film.