Posts in Category: waterfall
8/23/2009
Grand Falls
The highest of the Falls above Ingleton and a show piece of the Yorkshire Dales. You can see the limits of the camera clearly here. I had to apply a graduated filter effect from the top to darken the sky, and even then could find no real detail. Of course, it was one of those white English skys, on the edged of rain, with no real features.
Still, the falls carries the image.
Minolta A1 at 28mm equivalent. F5.0 @1/200th @ ISO 100. Programed auto.
As above, graduated filter effect from the top. Blackpoint adjustment. Fill Light. Punch and Landscape sharpen presets.
8/22/2009
Fall on the Ingelton Water Falls Walk
I can’t remember how many falls they claim for the Ingelton Water Falls Walk, but there are many. You go up one river, across the high moor, and down another river back to the junction where you started. This was one of the more prominent falls on the upward loop. We got there well before the car park opened, and the attendant eventually took pity and let us in early, so we were gloriously alone on the trial. A walk I will certainly remember and treasure forever. By afternoon, when we looked back at the moorland section of this trail from across the valley, it was like a city sidewalk with hikers. (So many people use the trail that two enterprising farmers have allowed snack booths along it were it passes through their land, one tended by foot, carrying everything quite a distance in, and one a truck that daily penetrates the deep cut lanes between stone walls to reach a likely vantage point on the top of the moor.)
Minolta A1 at 28mm equivalent. F2.8 @ 1/20th @ ISO 100. Programed auto.
Recovery for the highlights in the falls. Blackpoint adjustment. Punch and Landscape sharpen presets.
8/16/2009
Bubbles in the Stream
Happy Sunday.
Another shot from the depths of Emmon’s Preserve. Lest you get the wrong idea, the total extent of Emmon’s Preserve is maybe 25 acres. It is tiny. Sandwiched in between rural housing areas. In spots, when the leaves are thin, you can see the backyards and hay fields that surround it from the deepest parts.
Still beautiful. And the stream is never the same twice.
Sony DSC H50 at about 85mm equivalent. F3.2 @ 1/100th @ ISO 400. Programed auto.
Just the basic added Clarity and Vibrance, and Landscape sharpen in Lightroom. Cropped slightly at the top to eliminate a bright, distracting highlight.
7/22/2009
Iris Against the Fall
The Azalea garden at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is the oldest part of the grounds. Built in 2001, the plants on the terraced hill are just coming into their own, and were well past bloom when we visited. The water feature however is one the most stunning landscape sculptures I have ever seen. Water cascades down over a number of ledges and then sheets off a final carefully placed shelf in a rippling curtain of water that is surely designed to catch the light in a million different ways. There is then a short run to a lily pond, surrounded this season with Iris. Beautiful.
I used moderate tel on the zoom to frame this shot from a distance, and Program Shift to select the smallest aperture (greatest depth of field) and a slow shutter speed for the falling water. It was cropped from both the left and right in Lightroom for composition.
Sony DSC H50 at about 120mm equivalent. F8.0 @ 1/50th @ ISO 100. Programed auto with program shift.
Punch and Landscape sharpen presets in Lightroom. Recovery for the highlights. The rock at the bottom right was still too bright, so I used the Local Adjustment Brush to paint a mask and reduce brightness where needed.
The alternative view…
Iris And the Fall
For this, I zoomed in to about 300mm equivalent, and then cropped in Lightroom to come in even tighter, and to place the Iris on the power line (rule of thirds). No Program Shift here. I let the camera set moderate aperture and a faster shutter speed.
F4.0 @ 1/200th @ ISO 100. Programed auto.
Only Punch and Sharpen in Lightroom.