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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Crosby Manitou Cascades

I took a weekend backpacking trip with some friends into Crosby Manitou state park in Northern MN. This park is unique compared to others in Minnesota in that it is a single use park - hiking only with 16 remote backpacking campsites.

The most well known feature of this park are a set of falls known as "The Cascades" found near the North end of the park.

http://www.northerncaptures.com/NorthShoreCollection/Northshore-Waterfalls/i-zKWCndh/0/XL/crosby%20manitou%20cascades-XL.jpg

Another point of interest I found after a little exploration was an un-named set of falls off the beaten path. You could only reach these by taking an un-marked spur trail to a steep, rocky (dangerous) decent into the Manitou River valley. My tripod couldnt make it down this chute so I had to bump the ISO to get the depth of field I wanted, but I still like the end result:

http://www.northerncaptures.com/NorthShoreCollection/Northshore-Waterfalls/i-LVRXcmJ/0/XL/manitou%20river-XL.jpg

If I've managed to hold any of your attention this far, here is a shot of our campsite (three tents behind me) showing the place we spent a couple rain soaked nights cooking, talking, drinking and generally carrying on:

http://www.northerncaptures.com/Private/Crosby-Manitou-2014/i-t9Q8JgP/0/XL/5P2A2038-XL.jpg

Thanks for looking!

Edited on Jul 09, 2014 at 07:55 PM · View previous versions

Jul 02, 2014 at 03:32 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Crosby Manitou Cascades

My Favorite here is #2. The spotted lighting doesn't help the shots, but in #2 the composition is better. #1 should have the sky cropped off and you lost a lot of detail in the water that is blown out. If any of that can be recovered it would help it. But #2 is still a more solid composition.

It looks like a cool place to visit. If there was a way to shoot those locations early or late so that there was no sun in the shot, or perhaps when it was raining, that would have been a great time to get out and shoot the water. Overcast, even lighting is the best for waterfalls and cascades.

Jim

Jul 02, 2014 at 06:46 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Crosby Manitou Cascades

#1 has same side effect of poor cloning/stamping right of the base of the tree.

Too bad the tripod couldn't make it. Some better light and longer shutters speeds these falls would yield so many photo possibilities.

Jul 03, 2014 at 03:12 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Crosby Manitou Cascades

I went on vacation shortly after posting these, sorry for the slow response.

Jim -

I actually thought the spotted lighting added something to #2 but I agree on #1 it's not very flattering. Good call on the sky in #1, too.

As for the blown highlights, I think some detail must have been lost in upload to the web - the version on my machine still has blown highlights but only very few and in smaller areas near the top of the falls.

A re-shoot at a better time is certainly possible, these are only about 90 minutes away. For a backpacking trip like this I just use the cards I'm dealt since photography is not the primary goal for a trip and other non-photographers are with.

Scott -

Busted on the cloning - mustve been late when I was editing these. As you say, maybe I'll find my way back there without other non-photographers in tow so I can get some better lighting and timing. Unfortunately, the tripod can't make it to #2 under any circumstance.

Thanks to both of you!

Jul 09, 2014 at 08:02 PM


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