Copyright Nathan Montgomery, 2008
This was one of the last shots I took at the workshop. This stream sits just below Bridal Veil Falls in the Columbia River Gorge (as an aside, I think every mountainous state has a "bridal veil falls", by the way). You can just barely make out the water fall in the background.
The stream is obviously what makes this shot. It's about as beautiful of a stream as one could ever hope to find, and the water moves at a rate nearly perfect for this kind of photography. But beyond the obvious, I think that there are a few other cool features here. I'm a big fan of the mossy rock that is just below the center of the picture, and my instructor really liked the ferns in the lower left. Unfortunately, one of those ferns was moving a little in the water and is blurred, which pretty much ruins this shot for printing, unless I do some more invasive photoshopping.
In terms of the technical stuff, it's automatic metering (a wet, overcast morning let me get away with it), with the aperture set to F13 and the ISO at 200. I underexposed 1/3 of a stop to add detail and shot at the widest angle setting I could with the lenses I had. Most importantly, I shot this shot and pretty much every shot I'll post here with a circular polarizer. It's a must.
7 comments:
I think you should sell these to the Oregon travel bureau. I definitely want to travel there after checking out your shots.
We were there in the summer of 1960... I can not recall your stream...but the falls were beautiful...
Now.. It's time to start taking print orders for Christmas presents... and birthdays and anniversaries of anything and... The Stream and the Lupines would be on my list...keep 'em coming...
We continue to repot lillies... Mrs Montgomery is up a raring to pot plants..
see ya soon
B, you are right about the Oregon travel bureau. One of the activities that the instructor had us do was walk into a gift shop and look at how awful the photos being sold were. Granted, these were REALLY bad, but it opened up our eyes and we were picking out photoshopped ads in the airport and decided that some of these marketing pictures must be made by a 10 year old with minimal photoshop expertise.
Thank you everyone for your kind words, but please remember that a 2 inch by 3 inch image on your monitor goes a long way to covering up a lot of imperfections.
I think that is an awesome shot. I can just see an inspirational saying beneath it.
That's really funny that you write that, Aaron. The instructor for this class said that he sells more stuff to inspirational quote and religious print companies than anyone else.
The course instructor always said to wait 2 or 3 days before looking at a shot. I can see why. Originally, I put this shot further down the list of shots I took this week, but going back to it now, it's really moved towards the top.
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