Posted by Darren White on March 30, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Had to get up here again to check out the view with the new camera.....and a wider lens.....by the way I killed my 10-20 lens today so I am pretty bummed about that......anyway.......the columbia river gorge's natural water slide......kids do not try this at home!!!!
Camera: Nikon D300
Exposure: 3 sec (3)
Aperture: f/9
Focal Length: 10 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Posted by James Walley on March 30, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Sorry to hear about your lens, but what a way to go...
Posted by Tom Kloster on March 31, 2008 at 12:19 AM
I love that shot, Darren - it actually gives me a little vertigo when I peer into it! You posted a similar view last year, but I don't remember the brink of Horsetail Falls showing like this - that's definitely a nice composition! I like the lines, and I especially like that diagonal log for lines and scale. Color is spot-on, too - a very nice winter scene in the Gorge... well done!
Posted by John Lehmkuhl on March 31, 2008 at 12:24 AM
Awesome shot - I really dig this composition.... really nice. Looks very slippery and you would NOT want to slip here.....
Posted by Darren White on March 31, 2008 at 12:33 AM
yeah with my wider lens I was able to get a bit more in...I, too, liked the fact that I could get the top of Horsetail falls in the shot.....it was a great day up there and there are lots of nice cascades to shoot if you are up for a little bushwacking
Posted by Ned Fenimore on March 31, 2008 at 1:20 AM
Man I love the view from up there.. got to get up there soon to shoot.. I really like this here angle...
Yup, this is fantastic, every bit of it. The light above HT Falls is awesome.
Posted by Marc Dilley on March 31, 2008 at 11:26 AM
Forgive my Eastside ignorance, but isn't this the same falls that some of you have posted conventional views of? Anyway, you've got the vertigo mojo thing going in spades here, Darren. Very exciting shot; sort of a green slip 'n slide. No, really, it's very effective.
Posted by Adrian Klein on March 31, 2008 at 12:25 PM
Great perspective Darren. Unqiue in a great way. Not exactly an 'escape' route you would want to use!
Posted by Tom Kloster on March 31, 2008 at 3:54 PM
It is, Marc - Darren has posted several images from stream level (where visible in this view), although most shoot this falls from the trailside vantage points on either side.
I noticed when I was up there a couple of weeks ago that some yahoo(s) built a fire in the middle of the trail, behind the falls. It will take years for the smokey smell to fade, and the smoke on the ceiling of the cave is forever, unfortunately. Idiots.
Posted by Cliff Dodge on March 31, 2008 at 4:25 PM
I like the perspective Darren. Like the others said, big vertigo thing going on. Nice shot.
Posted by Andy Drumer on March 31, 2008 at 8:17 PM
Nice Shot Darren, I'm sure you realize how much I was begging for a wider lens when I shot this. I was only at 28mm, bummer, great to see what a difference this makes
Posted by Tom Kloster on March 31, 2008 at 9:42 PM
Well, I'll be damned, Andy! So it was your shot that I was thinking of from last year..? So, give me a sketchiness score on this one: (1) extremely hairy, (2) kinda hairy, (3) not all that sketchy, or (4) I'd take my grandma there. I've looked at that spur trail before, but never realized that it forked, and a branch went to the upper creek... so I might need to go there, if it's sane...
Posted by Darren White on March 31, 2008 at 10:15 PM
its not a trail you are gonna run up and down...when I was there on Sunday morning, the trail was muddy and wet...very very slippery in spots.....you just have to take your time ....I would say its a 3
This is really awesome. Love the sweeping curve of the fall.
Sorry to hear about your lens. I've experienced this last year with my 10-20 and again this w-e as I fell into the frozen ottawa river...my macro lens is dead, and I am still waiting to see if my d200 survived...
Darren, it is shots like this that REALLY excite me. New perspectives on very common themes really wake up this common waterfall theme. The common (and solid) element of an s curve through the frame, and the virtigo inducing view is very diffrent.
VERY well done....very good "out of the box" thinking.
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19 repliesCamera: Nikon D300
Exposure: 3 sec (3)
Aperture: f/9
Focal Length: 10 mm
ISO Speed: 100
I noticed when I was up there a couple of weeks ago that some yahoo(s) built a fire in the middle of the trail, behind the falls. It will take years for the smokey smell to fade, and the smoke on the ceiling of the cave is forever, unfortunately. Idiots.
http://www.naturephotographers.net/imagecritique/bbs.cgi?a=vm&mr=15876&CGISESSID=ddaf02d1b3e5aac5387d7ab5522497c0&u=3824
http://www.naturephotographers.net/imagecritique/bbs.cgi?a=vm&mr=15781&CGISESSID=ddaf02d1b3e5aac5387d7ab5522497c0&u=4057
You forgot one more on the scale: (5)Rick can do it
I didn't realize how close those comps were.
Sorry to hear about your lens. I've experienced this last year with my 10-20 and again this w-e as I fell into the frozen ottawa river...my macro lens is dead, and I am still waiting to see if my d200 survived...
VERY well done....very good "out of the box" thinking.
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