That's a Waterfall

Multnomah falls is one of the most photographed waterfalls in the world. It is not the biggest but it is one of the easiest to get to. Park the car, walk about 75 yards and start clicking. Located east of Portland Oregon along the Columbia River Gorge it is truly breathtaking. The water over the edge falls some 620 feet into the pool at the bottom.

What really brought some significance to this was just two days prior we were on Mt. Hood and my son called telling me he had repelled deep into the earth. Close to 600 feet. It was pretty amazing to look at these falls and how small we felt to imaging a single rope hanging over the edge with a young man descending. Yikes!

This is a six shot pano of the falls and was shot using a Canon 40D with an EF 16-35 f/2.8L USM lens mounted. It is somewhat of a wide lens but with the crop factor it was not too bad. Focal length was 35mm which helped also. Speed was 1/3rd second at f20 and an ISO of 100. If I recall, I had a circular polarizer screwed on the front to knock it down a couple of stops. Pano assembly was in CS3. The shots were taken in landscape to which I rotated so PS could better assemble the images. Once together it was flattened, rotated, and worked with. Prior to deleting the original pano layers the file was at 1.06 GB. Now that's a fat file!

Hey! I got to go off to Z-land. Cya tomorrow... Doug