Dead Man Falls has been a hidden favorite gem of mine, off trail in the Columbia River Gorge (not easy to get to). I got to it a couple years ago (this image) but then last year climbed back in there and it was gone! The massive ice storm we had in the Pacific Northwest that year changed the furniture of the landscape entirely.
I am in between leading tours right now and literally homeless by choice, living out of my car and a tent almost this entire year. I have never been happier. Below is also the general idea of my vehicle setup.
Please forgive me if all is not color accurate and such. I have not run calibration on my set up yet, as it is a sunny day with a lot of glare...
Canon 5D Mark2
Canon 16-35L2 at 16mm
Circular Polarizer.
f/22 for sunstar
100ISO
I hope everyone has a great Spring/Summer/Fall shoot.
Feel free to Facebook me if you so feel the desire. Lots of cool things happening.
wlpelzmann wrote:
Great wide angle composition. The sunstar is icing on the cake!
What to you have that large monitor plugged into?
Thank you!
Just your basic car inverter. About $30.
I run the monitor off it and use the batterie life on my Mac.
Then whenever I need to I charge up.
dswiger wrote:
Mark, that must be tough to back pack with all that gear
Heavy as heck! Actually I just get real creative at stashing stuff...
What is not showing is my Wacom Intos Pro (medium sized).
Side note: wow FM is getting slow. Kind of sad. I remember days when on a Sunday your image would fall right off the front page fast and easily. Guess the new forums are taking people away.
This is really neat - my kind of place to shoot! I have a similar spot that the acts of nature unfortunately "trashed" - but I have memories and good images to remind me of how it was..
Great shot! I'd be careful running your monitor off a cheap inverter. It will reduce the life of the monitor by a lot I'd be willing to bet. Not a true sine wave on cheap inverters. I'd invest in a vagabond mini or similar. Charge that via cheap inverter and then that will output a true sine wave to your monitor.
That's a very nice shot to pull from the archives. And its a reminder that often the scenes we shoot can be very fleeting. I remember how i felt so fortunate to have been among the last to have photographed one of the major (forget which off the top of my head) waterfalls in Havasu Falls before the water flow changed and was channeled away from it.
As for your setup, are you sitting twisted as you edit? That would have to sure hurt after a while.
A huge thank you to everyone. Sorry for the late response. Was off the grid for a few days...
Ned Fenimore wrote:
This is really neat - my kind of place to shoot! I have a similar spot that the acts of nature unfortunately "trashed" - but I have memories and good images to remind me of how it was..
Ned, I LOVE your work! Thank you for commenting! Did you ever get here? It was above Upper Ruckle. Not easy to get to!!! I'd love to have seen your spot too!
Hardcore wrote:
Great shot! I'd be careful running your monitor off a cheap inverter. It will reduce the life of the monitor by a lot I'd be willing to bet. Not a true sine wave on cheap inverters. I'd invest in a vagabond mini or similar. Charge that via cheap inverter and then that will output a true sine wave to your monitor.
Awesome tip I am very appreciative! Thank you! I'll get a better electrical set up soon!
mannyherr wrote:
So jealous of your lifestyle right now !!! lol . great shot also !!
I really appreciate it! Thank you. I always say don't be jealous of what it took to get here! )
lighthound wrote:
Beautiful shot! Love that laser thin sun star. Is that normal for that lens @ f/22?
And I to am envious of your current life style.
Thank you very much. Yes when the sun is cutting into a tree at just the right angle. Sometimes they don't look like this...
JimFox wrote:
Hey Mark,
That's a very nice shot to pull from the archives. And its a reminder that often the scenes we shoot can be very fleeting. I remember how i felt so fortunate to have been among the last to have photographed one of the major (forget which off the top of my head) waterfalls in Havasu Falls before the water flow changed and was channeled away from it.
As for your setup, are you sitting twisted as you edit? That would have to sure hurt after a while.
Jim
Thank you Jim. Wow, that is awesome you got that Havasu Falls shot. Must have been amazing!
Yes, for now I am twisted. Still trying to figure out how best to do it... I do all the Raw stuff on my MB Pro, then switch to the 27inch for the PS portion. But still working on it...
lionking wrote:
Love the shot Mark, but the purples in the sky, kinda ruin it for me...
Andrey
Thank you Audrey. As I mentioned above, unfortunately I was not calibrated when I processed this one. Here is a quick revision attempt to move some of the slightly purplish blues, more toward lighter cyan/baby blue (in the sky). Hopefully it is better... It wont be for a while before I can do any real critical evaluation/revision work on it. Unfortunately, processing out of my car has its limits, so sorry about the lack of accuracy. I do appreciate the feedback though. It helps.
It's pretty crazy how scenes can change so much. That's one of the reasons why I like revisiting locations. If this was mine, I would work to restore some dark tone to the foreground rocks and especially the tree. They feel a bit too recovered, and It's getting a bit muddy, kind of like when you print a high contrast photo on matte paper.
Beautiful image as always, really nice sun star, great composition. And thanks for all the info you post.
How do you manage to secure your stuff when away from your car, would worry me all the time.
Brian
