Intersting Places in Austria – Traunfall
The “Traunfall” is a nice waterfall at the River „Traun“ in Upper Austria. It has a length of about 200 meters and the water falls down from a hight of 12 meters. The speciality of this Waterfall is that the waterline of the waterfall doesn’t align with the river in a straight way but in an diagonal way. This is very seldom on waterfalls especially on smaller ones. I visited this nice waterfall together with a friend of mine on 1st of May wich is a national holiday in Austria.
Longtime Exposure of the Traunfall. Picture: Florian Glechner.
Now and back then
In former times the Traunfall was a natural barrier for ships to move from one part of the river to the other. But in 1311 they built a channel to make the Traunfall passable with ships. Now the Traunfall is used as an energy supply for 2 water power plants, one is built directly obove the Traunfall and one underneath. Because of the water power plant the water above the Plant rose some meters and now there is a small water reservoir above the power plant. You can drive with a fisherboat over the water reservoir and see an old pumphouse wich is now underneath the water because of the dam and the higher water level.
Longtime Exposure of the Traunfall. For this picture you need to climb down a path with an iron rope, and position yourself at a rock. Picture: Florian Glechner
Power of the Water
You can really see the power of the water at the Traunfall on different places of the waterfall, depending on the amount of water flowing over it. For me it was a very interesting trip because I like water and the power that comes from it. And I also like what you can do with a Neutral density filter to prolong the expsosure to create this silky water Effects on the pictures.
Because of the big amout of water flowing down the river the waterfall is very powerfull. Picture: Florian Glechner
| Camera used | Nikon D5100 |
|---|---|
| Lens used | 18-105mm Nikkor |
| Filter used | Lee 10 Stops |
| Exposure Time | depending on Picture |
| Aperture used | F11 |
| Focal Lengh | 18 mm |
| Time | 03:30 pm |
| ISO | 100 |
If you liked this post you might also like my other articles about Interesting Places in Austria:
- Hallstatt
- Schiederweiher
- Langbathseen
- Dürres Eck
- Neusiedler See
- Gmunden
- Linz
- Bad Gastein
- Zentralfriedhof
- Almsee
- Dripping Wall
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That's some beautiful long exposure shots. You've got some very good filters. I was have never been able to find good filters when I was using Sony A100 without costing a fortune, so I always have to dial up the f stop really high for these shots, and even then the outcome is not always good depending on the lighting. So yeah, beautiful shots both the first and second picture!
Thank you. Aß mentioned in the article i used the Lee 10 Stop Filter for this shot, they are expensive but worth their money
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Ala Traunsteiner kenn ich den unteren Lauf natürlich :)
Ja ist sehr schön dort.