Falling water (IR 720nm mono)

Part X of the "lost gorge series": One probably can't tell, but I felt the need to go a bit old school with this, flattened out the shadows etc., so it's not as high fidelity as it could be (on purpose).

Also, I seem to have a liking for 'unnecessarily panoramic' images 😜, this is just a bit of the middle of my 3 row panorama setup, I mean I could have done this handheld, easy. Is it probable? Not in the slightest! There is soo much going on in that place / scene, it really is a matter of exclusion and I'm not sure if I know how to do that. 😓

That's the beauty of (self) imposed limitations, I guess. I have my panorama rig going, and I think, "ok, I just do the waterfall, that can't hurt", and then "ok, let's do some photos on each side, just in case", and then on the computer I end up using every pixel of it, don't think of cropping and loving it! Even though I know, there are these beautiful trees above and there is this cool carved out water channel below one can't see, but I'm good with it, I sort of take is a (panoramic) snapshot. Weird, huh? Can anybody relate to this? If you think it's shit, that's ok too of course.

 

 

Technically it's a 6-piece pano, cylindrical stitch, 12411 x 4160px, ~51,6MP.

 

Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)

Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD

Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)

ISO250, 24mm, f/6.3, 1,3sec

(therefore 36mm full frame equivalent)

tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)

Done