The Falls

[Sunny Sra]

I've been wanting to head here for years...finally made it this past Friday. Left on Friday afternoon...Drove 600 miles, slept 3-4 hours at the rest stop about 30 miles south of Dunsmuir, shot the falls for 3 hours and drove 600 miles back on Saturday, back in LA around 6 PM. I think this tops the driving to Portland, shoot the Japanese maple & waterfalls over 2 days and then drive back on day 3.

I thought I had my ND filters but I didn't, so I used opposite ends of 2 Soft GNDs a .45 and .3, to create an ND filter, put it on the filter holder and taped them with gaffers tape.

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The Falls

• Sunny Sra
• Jul 16, 2019

 

[Alisa]

wow! what a beautiful photo.

 

[AlanLichty]

Outstanding result. An almost magical atmosphere to the scene with how you processed this.

 

[JimFox]

Super cool Sunny! I guess I should have went with you!

I really like the look of this, good job with the creative ND. Don’t forget, you can easily simulate an ND filter in Photoshop. We have a tutorial in the Article section describing how to do it. It works similar to the Sony app that some Sony cameras have to simulate ND’s.

 

[Linda Combs]

Rather stunning!

 

[Dean]

Very nice ... looks great.
Way to improvise on the ND filters.
I assume you will be adding that to the checklist before heading off 1200 miles to do long exposures
Sorry I could not resist.
Regards,
Dean

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

Sunny OMG that is sick! Just gorgeous!

 

[Kyle Jones]

Glad you made it out there Sunny - looks great!

 

[Beth]

wow, this is beautiful! i love the long exposure and your story about taping gnds together gave me a chuckle.

i'm not sure if it's the crappy work monitor i'm using or if it's supposed to be that way, but the water, rocks and upper right corner look purple to me.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Gorgeous image Sunny. I thought too dark at first glance but that is what makes it. I love this image.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Beautiful, and creative filtering!

 

[Jeffrey]

Man, that was an expensive image. But totally worth it! Superb imaging, Sunny.

 

[Jim Sanderson]

I like this one, very nice d&b.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

It almost looks like the light is directed at the falls. Nicely done.

 

[lionking]

What a dedication Sunny, beautiful scene here, and kudos and creativity with the ND, it looks like there is some selective dodging and burning, and it looks a bit too obvious to me.

Cheers.