Palouse Falls Dawn
Palouse Falls in eastern Washington State is a spectacular waterfall that plummets 200 feet into a huge natural amphitheater. The afternoon before I took this p...
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Palouse Falls in eastern Washington State is a spectacular waterfall that plummets 200 feet into a huge natural amphitheater. The afternoon before I took this photograph, I scouted locations for sunrise photographs the next morning and set up my tent in Palouse Falls State Park (back when camping was still allowed there). The next morning before sunrise I went to the several photo locations I had hoped to take photos and realized that none of them were decent compositions at dawn. So as the rising sun was nearing the horizon, I scrambled to find a better location. I found this viewpoint beyond where I had scouted before. I had enough time to set up my camera and fire off two series of manually bracketed exposures, one series for the waterfall and much darker ground, and a second for the much brighter sky. I knew from experience that the contrast between the ground and sky was too great to process well from one exposure, and that I needed to bracket widely to later choose two exposures I could process well and blend. The sky exposure was f22 at 0.6 seconds, 100 ISO. The ground exposure was f20 at 6 seconds, ISO 100. I used a 6 second exposure to blur the waterfall.
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ImDivergent1007
March 09, 2023
i didnt hike around when i drove from the central part of our state for what seemed like forever towards the Eastern Palouse Plains of Washington. i curious if your a fellow washingtonian and of you may share with me which trail toom you to this area od the beautiful Palouse Falls. i had my youngest and at the time she was only about one and half years old so i never got the chance to hike around. i want to return once i replace my stolen equipment someday and would love to capture such a stunning photo as ypu did here myself. yes very beautiful and wjy a great angle.
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