Mohican Falls
Mohican Falls is found in Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania. The park is named for R. Bruce Ricketts, a colonel in the American Civil War who owned over ...
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Mohican Falls is found in Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania. The park is named for R. Bruce Ricketts, a colonel in the American Civil War who owned over 80,000 acres (32,000 ha) in the area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but spared the old-growth forests in the glens from clearcutting. The park, which opened in 1944. Ricketts named 21 of the 24 waterfalls, mostly for Native American tribes and places, and his family and friends. Kitchen Creek flows down three steep, narrow valleys, or glens. We hiked down one glen and then up another. You can do this in one day if you start early.
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RDVPhotography
September 21, 2018
Thank you very much Jm, sorry for the late reply. I am on a 32 day trip and most of the time have no internet access.
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RDVPhotography
February 18, 2019
Appreciate the nice comment Russell, a beautiful place in the spring and fall.
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MrMontana1889
March 15, 2019
Overall I like the photo. Personally, I would decrease the exposure just slightly and increase the contrast. Did you use a polarizer at all? I love taking waterfall photos in the fall even after peak colors. Very nicely done.
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RDVPhotography
April 21, 2019
I probably should have used a vignett on the image, I see you use them on some of yours. Seems the dark look is in right now, but to each his own. I dont think I used a polarizer as you can see a bit of reflection in the water just in front of the horizontal log
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pachino
August 04, 2020
Great photo, I'll paint it sometime whenever I have the time. Hope you don't mind.
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RDVPhotography
August 06, 2020
Pachino, glad you like it, don't mind you painting it at all. Take a photo and send it to me, whenever you do paint it so I can see what your work looks like. Cheers.
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RDVPhotography
January 21, 2021
Thank you very much Ashley, this is a wonderful place and I highly recommend a visit.
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RDVPhotography
January 21, 2021
Ron, thanks and you are right Ricketts Glen is a wonderful place and I highly recommend a visit.I see you have serveral nice waterfall images. Cheers
Trooper
August 20, 2021
I recognized this fall at first glance. I live only about an hour from Ricketts Glen. Beautiful capture!!
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RDVPhotography
August 24, 2021
Thank you so much Trooper! Ricketts Glen is a wonderful place and lucky you that you live nearby.
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Mohican Falls is found in Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania. The park is named for R. Bruce Ricketts, a colonel in the American Civil War who owned over 80,000 acres (32,000 ha) in the area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but spared the old-growth forests in the glens from clearcutting. The park, which opened in 1944. Ricketts named 21 of the 24 waterfalls, mostly for Native American tribes and places, and his family and friends. Kitchen Creek flows down three steep, narrow valleys, or glens. We hiked down one glen and then up another. You can do this in one day if you start early.Time
It was just before noon on October 27th 2010. This is the 7th named falls going down Ganoga Glenn. It was a bit cloudy that day so the mid day light was not a problem.Lighting
Nice diffused lighting due to clouds overhead at midday.Equipment
I used a Canon 5D MkII with Canon EOS 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens mounted on a Gitzo Tripod with RRS Ball Head. I also was using a Lee 0.6 ND filter and ISO 50 to get a 1/2 second exposure.Inspiration
I love photographing moving water and Ricketts Glen had been on my bucket list for quite some time and a trip from Texas to the Northeast for Fall photography gave me a chance to go to a place with over 20 waterfalls. This photo of Mohican Falls is by far my best image from this park.Editing
I use Lightroom as my primary editing tool for all the basics such as setting the camera profile, in this case Landscape followed by enabling the lens profile and then cropping. After this I made lighting adjustments with the Highlights, Shadows, White & Black clipping sliders to even out the historgram, especially trying not to blow out the highlights and whites of the water. I also made some clarity and vibrance adjustments to bring out textures and colors a bit. Then I fine tuned the lighting with tone curve adjustments. After this I made some color adjustments using luminance sliders for orange and yellow. My last steps were to make a small adjustment to exposure, remove chromatic aberrations and then sharpen.In my camera bag
I have two bags and each has a purpose. The bag with my 5DMKII (Full Frame Camera) has my 16-35mm f/2.8, 24-105mm f4.0 and 70-200 f/2.8, mainly for everything except wildlife. The bag with the 50D (APS-C) has 24-70 f/2.8 and 300mm prime is mainly for wildlife. If I am traveling by car I take it all, which was the case for this trip. If traveling overseas only bag one goes unless going for wildlife, for that I take bag one with both cameras and swap 70-200 for 300 prime.Additionally I have a full set of Lee Soft Graduated ND filters, a set of three ND filters (0.6, 0.9 and 1.2). For sunrises or sunsets I carry two reverse graduated ND filters (0.6 & 0.9). I also carry a CP filter.Feedback
Ricketts Glen is a unique environment and you need to do some research and planning ahead of time. Know the best seasons to go here, which are spring when there is lots of water flowing and fall when the colors are great. Plan out where you are going to start and end. There is parking at the top and the bottom. I chose the top, Lake Rose Parking, because we planned a round trip, down one glen then up the other followed by a short hike across the Highland Trail back to the car park. Get here early. I thought we did but should have gotten there right after sunrise. Wear very good hiking shoes/boots. Boots are better to give you ankle support as you will be walking up and down on rocks and slippery trails. Be prepared to get wet.
