Posts under ‘Landscapes’

November 19, 2009 Metlako Falls is a punch bowl formed falls that is 101 feet tall.  It was named in 1915 after the Metlako, the Indian goddess of Salmon.  Other interesting note Trip Jennings a well known extreme white water kayaker ran this falls and it was caught on you tube.

November 19, 2009 A small dense stand of Douglas Fir along the Eagle Creek trail.

November 19, 2009 Mist high on the canyon wall surrounding big leaf maples with lichen on them.

October 17, 2009 The majority of my favorite shots from this trip fall in the landscape category. This is one of the best shots from my trip.  This is a shot of Burney Falls in McArthur Burney Memorial State Park .  This is a very interesting falls because the different types of rocks create an effect that [...]

October 11, 2009 HDR stands for High Dynamic Range Image is a technique that allows a greater dynamic range of luminance.  What this does is allow the all areas of the photo to be illuminated. These photos show what the camera captured in order to expose correctly for the sunset and what the picture looked like exposed correctly [...]

Here is my second HDR image.  I think it is an even better image.  I was able to figure out how to use the tone curves in CS4.

Thursday Septemeber 10, 2009 For the last two years I have been talking about going to Jefferson Park located in the Mt Jefferson Wilderness area just west of Detroit , Ore.   There are several ways to hike into Jefferson park.  I stopped off at the Detroit Lake Ranger Station and received advice on the [...]

This is a good photo.  Great color, water is clear, good reflection, composed well, but It is missing something to make it special.  It is missing that special something I think color like  just a touch of red from a flower that would have made this photo special.  If the heather in the left corner [...]

This photo was not easy to get.  Early morning with the sun coming right at me.  I used a 2 stop split density neutral filter and took several brakes until I was able to get this shot.  I always use a circular polarized filter for landscape photos that way I get blue Sky.  If I [...]

You can see my tent and food bag.  Spent the night at Jefferson park mid-week in the first week of September.  Clouds when I cam in but cleared to the get the reflection shots and this is what it looked like in the morning.