You need to know where it is, you need to know when to go, you need to make the effort to get there, and you need to use a very wide angle lens to capture it. Hidden Falls in Rickets Glen State Park is a nearly sure-thing location for great intimate landscape photos, but it is off trail and due to several very large trees that have fallen here, a wide angle lens is required to take in the full scene.
While evaluating the Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L III USM Lens, a lens containing the right ultra-wide focal length, the right when-to-go timing occured (cloudy, wet, very little wind and fall color showing), so I went. While the waterflow over the main falls in the park was lower than reported, this little falls was flowing just right. I backed up in the space available, zoomed out to 16mm and framed the scene to minimize lines of strong contrast on the frame borders.
While this lens' wide max aperture was not needed for this image, this lens' very impressive corner sharpness was fully utilized.
As is often the case for intimate landscapes and waterfall photography in general, a circular polarizer filter wasa key piece of kit for this image capture, cutting the reflections and increasing saturation appreciably.
A larger version of this image is available on SmugMug, Flickr, Google+, Facebook and 500px. If reading from a news feed reader, click through to see the framed image.
While evaluating the Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L III USM Lens, a lens containing the right ultra-wide focal length, the right when-to-go timing occured (cloudy, wet, very little wind and fall color showing), so I went. While the waterflow over the main falls in the park was lower than reported, this little falls was flowing just right. I backed up in the space available, zoomed out to 16mm and framed the scene to minimize lines of strong contrast on the frame borders.
While this lens' wide max aperture was not needed for this image, this lens' very impressive corner sharpness was fully utilized.
As is often the case for intimate landscapes and waterfall photography in general, a circular polarizer filter wasa key piece of kit for this image capture, cutting the reflections and increasing saturation appreciably.
A larger version of this image is available on SmugMug, Flickr, Google+, Facebook and 500px. If reading from a news feed reader, click through to see the framed image.
Gear Used
Camera and Lens Settings
16mm f/11.0 1s
ISO 100
8688 x 5792px
ISO 100
8688 x 5792px
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