Post Your Waterfalls

[David Aimone]

Magical location, and great photograph of it!

Watkins Glen
My first 4x5, outdoor, really trying to make something shot.
HP5 in HC-110 printed on Ilford MGRC.
Tach. 4x5 and 135mm Symmar stopped down way more than I needed to--you learn I guess.

[Kermit Burroughs]

Surprisingly, no one had posted this one. I have B&W, but haven't done anything with it. This is my first time trying to figure out movements...and well missed the light a bit.

[Vaughn]

Just for the fun of it...I was going through my old negatives the other day and came across this 4x5.

From about 1982, using a Raja field camera and a Computar S 210/6.3 lens. The wonderful young lady was my girlfriend of the time (and is still good friend) and we had backpacked up into the Trinity Alps of California (Canyon Creek).

The pose is a little awkward, but that was her.

From a scanned negative.

Vaughn

[numnutz]

Here attached is the Cascade waterfall at Virginia Water in Windsor Great Park.

Unfortunately, I chose to go when school was out and the whole area was running alive with kids. Including some no older than 6 or 7 years old who were prancing around on the top of the falls. Being man made, the water has little force behind it but the stones were slippery and the drop was about 25 feet. No kids were damaged or drowned but I think it was pure luck.

I focused on the stones by the water center in this picture, but this shot, the only one I took is slightly soft, I don't know the reason presumably I kicked the tripod :-(

Foma 100 ⅛ sec. f11. Processed in Retro Pyro scanned on Epson 4990 apart from duo-tone and a couple of spots/hairs removed and image re-sized no other Photoshop work was done.

nn

[Ken Lee]

"this shot, the only one I took is slightly soft, I don't know the reason"

If you examine the negative with a loupe, you will be able to determine whether the blur is due to camera movement, or loss of critical focus.

Sometimes we tug on the cable release (and move the camera). Sometimes we don't tighten the camera after focusing, and during the process of loading the film holder, the focus shifts enough to cause a noticeable blur.

[bgh]

Well, technically, this is a waterfall, albeit a partially constructed one. This is the spillway and the spillway channel of the New Croton Dam in Croton-on-Hudson, NY, built between 1892 and 1905; the spillway is very cool here in that it curves around from the end of the dam and heads upstream for about a thousand or so feet, leaving a series of rocky ledges to serve as the spillway channel. The channel is mostly natural, though the engineers at the time called for a couple of plateaus to help dissipate the energy in the falling water.

The single span deck arch bridge is not the original, but it was replaced in kind to replicate the original.

It is a fantastic dam, and wonderfully available to the public for those in or near the Hudson River Valley; even on a dreary day with flat light, it is difficult to throw open a shutter without getting at least a decent picture. This is a quick snapshot with a Crown Graphic pointed upwards, Ilford Delta 100. I'd like to go back sometime, and set up a shot decently. Until then, this will have to do.

Bruce

[fenderbja]

Waterfall in the Columbia River Gorge on Multnomah Creek.

Scanned from a 5x7 carbon print

Love it.

[fenderbja]

Bridal Veil Falls - Provo Utah - Freaking old 8x10 Kodak Empire No.2 camera

[SMBooth]

Yannathan Falls deep into the Great Otway National Park down here in Oz.
Velvia 50 4x5 90mm Komura 8sec @ f16

[eddie]

wow! awesome photos on this page! well done!

my are drying now. stay tuned.

eddie