Turner Falls Overlook

Dani

two shots of turner falls from the overlook

I wish it had been a different time of day other than noon, but I hadn't actually made the trip for photography, I was helping my dad scout out geological stops layed out in a lesson plan for his students (all of them on the side of the road on I-35 :wow) The very last stop was near the overlook so I packed the camera and the tripod and all my filters and he stopped a bit and let me snap away for a while.... then we ate lunch and came home. :

I need to process one with people in it so you can get a sense of scale... turner falls is a 77ft waterfall!!





I'd also taken several infrared shots of it.. but something must be wrong with one of my lenses because there was massive distortion everywhere in the shot but almost dead center... and this was on every IR shot

I've also got a shot of Turner Falls 'castle' that I havn't processed

wholenewlight

I know that noon isn't the best time for most photography but your "Turner Falls" shots have a very unique look to them. Certainly your slow shutter speed has captured the motion of the moving water. But the brown color of the water contrasting with the white highlights gives an almost artificial look to the river. Pretty cool.

You must have had a relatively strong ND filter?

Where is Turner Falls, which state?

Dani

wholenewlight wrote:

I know that noon isn't the best time for most photography but your "Turner Falls" shots have a very unique look to them. Certainly your slow shutter speed has captured the motion of the moving water. But the brown color of the water contrasting with the white highlights gives an almost artificial look to the river. Pretty cool.

You must have had a relatively strong ND filter?

Where is Turner Falls, which state?

Thanks!!! I had a nd4, nd8 and a polarizer stacked on top of each other, and then a 1.7 tele . At f/8 I was only at maybe 1/15th... no near slow enough... so I took 5-8 shots and stacked them.

Turner falls is in Oklahoma.. part of the Arbuckle wilderness. If you look on a map you'll follow I-35 down to southern oklahoma... and where hwy 7 crosses over you'll find Davis and Sulpher somewhere in there. Thats where it's located at.

Dani

Collings Castle
settled in the trees next to Turner Falls

Steve Cavigliano

Dani,
Despite the mid-day lighting, these came out very nicely thumb I really like the color of the riverbed. Almost an ochre color. All three shots are so colorful. Man, what a bummer about your IR shots I'd have loved to see that castle in IR :cry Plus, as we all know, mid-day lighting is IR time....lol :lol


Steve

MuskyDude

Nice silky water effect Dani, great job with the exposure. Tell us more about the castle...



AJ

Phil U.

Dani wrote:

I'd also taken several infrared shots of it.. but something must be wrong with one of my lenses because there was massive distortion everywhere in the shot but almost dead center... and this was on every IR shot

Were you using either the wide or tele converter on top of the filters? I just got the Sony Wide converter and tried to stack on the filters and then the converter. Major vignetting and distortion. I guess when you pull the converter away from the main lens the optics just don't work. I was considering getting the cokin filter holder so I could do IR with the add-on lenses... dunno yet though...

Oh, and I like the series - you pulled off a successful midday shoot!

USAIR

Dani
Hope you figure out your IR problem
Great photos or the falls love the smooth look of the water very cool

Thanks
Fred

Dani

thanks everyone!!!

heres the story on the castle... from a guy over on FM forums

It was built in the 1930s by Dr. Ellsworth Collings author, Professor and Dean of Education at the University of Oklahoma. The "Castle" was originally built as a summer guest house and ranch house for the family of Dr. Collings. Dr. and Mrs. Collings lived at the Bar-C and commuted three times a week to Norman until his retirement in 1958. He was a member of many educational organizations and writers clubs. He was an active member of the Murray County Historical Society. Dr. Collings was listed in Who's Who in America and donator to the Cowboy Hall of Fame degrees.

Dani

Phil U. wrote:

Were you using either the wide or tele converter on top of the filters? I just got the Sony Wide converter and tried to stack on the filters and then the converter. Major vignetting and distortion. I guess when you pull the converter away from the main lens the optics just don't work. I was considering getting the cokin filter holder so I could do IR with the add-on lenses... dunno yet though...

Oh, and I like the series - you pulled off a successful midday shoot!

Used a couple extra filters (ND and polarizer.. maybe 5 is too many though lol)

However, yesterday at Wichita I did stack my wide angle on there and got some mild vignetting... and yup.. when I looked at them on the computer screen... distortion. Different than the previous distortion.. but it was there.

All the shots taken with the three standard filters were mostly fine though

Time for that 300D IR conversion and a 10-22