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Never Ending Waterfalls

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Posted by Marc Adamus on July 4, 2006 at 6:24 PM
Never Ending Waterfalls
Proxy Falls. Three Sisters Wilderness, Oregon. The intimate view.
Posted by Marc Adamus on July 4, 2006 at 6:24 PM
The whole thing!
Posted by John Lehmkuhl on July 4, 2006 at 7:39 PM
I really want to visit this falls !! Very much like Fairy Falls in some ways, only greener ! Thanks for both perspectives :toast:
Posted by Marc Adamus on July 4, 2006 at 7:45 PM
Like fairy falls only 250 feet high and 100 feet accross! The water displaces so much air as it falls there is a constant wind and blowing mist at the spot the second image was taken. It's really hard to shoot almost any perspective at these falls so come prepared with lots of lens cloths!

Anyone have a preference between the two?
Posted by Mark Hudon on July 4, 2006 at 8:23 PM
I'm all over the first one, Marc.
Posted by Tomas Kaspar on July 4, 2006 at 8:54 PM
No#1 is a clasic, but no#2 is very hard to get due to that mist and wind combination. I really like #2 better.
Posted by Marc Adamus on July 4, 2006 at 9:39 PM
I spent over an hour there taking the spray blasts and blended small peices of four or five images to come away with a final image that was very sharp throughout and free of lens spots! Not the most fun I've ever had shooting, but it's a shot I've been working on for many years.

As for the first image, there was a log blocking a lot of these cascades that had been there for years and is finally gone! I got a few new perspectives on it this spring. Now, if only that log at Punch Bowl would do the same thing......
Posted by Rick Lundh on July 4, 2006 at 9:42 PM
I'm really diggin both of em...really. I never thought of blending different pieces of an image to work around the whole lens splash thing. Good thinking. From the water flow, this looks like it was taken sometime in September?
Posted by Marc Adamus on July 4, 2006 at 10:31 PM
No, just a last week actually Rick. This is going pretty good for Proxy but the moss had dried just a bit below the falls. The blends were more for wind-blown foliage than waterspots, but some of both. The final full-res looks really good but it was too much work IMO.
Posted by Ned Fenimore on July 4, 2006 at 10:53 PM
Very sweet stuff.. thanks for sharing them with us, Marc..
Posted by eric lee on July 5, 2006 at 11:03 AM
I vote for the intimate view.
Posted by Pradeep on July 5, 2006 at 5:05 PM
I dig the second one. If I had taken/blended this shot I'd have probably cropped and taken out the portions of sky at the top. But every photographer has his/her own perspective. Another winning shot Marc :toast:
Posted by John Lehmkuhl on July 5, 2006 at 5:09 PM
Someone needs to invent the photographers ladder. Allows you to get 8 feet higher in the air and has a solid IS tripod mount on the top. I like #2 but would like it more if you were level somehow with the fals, Marc. Just a bit too much tilt for me.

Maybe time for that 24mm TS lens :razz:
Posted by Kevin Hillegass on July 6, 2006 at 2:45 AM
#1 for me. I like that perspective better of the two. I'd love to shoot those falls sometime...

Kevin