Latourell - a Distant View

[AlanLichty]

I think I have photographed Latourell Falls in the Columbia River Gorge in just about every way I can imagine. It's the closest waterfall along the Historic Highway to my house and I have used it as a photo testing ground to try out new cameras, lenses, and filters for a couple of decades now. I have been wondering what the falls might look like from the air but don't want to fly in the immediate vicinity of the falls and the trails as there are simply too many people most of the time. I spent a lot of time staring at maps trying to see if there was a way to shoot them from a distance and it turns out the east end of Rooster Rock state park gets me to a spot where I can see up the small canyon with the falls at the upper end. This was shot as a single from using the 166mm lens on my drone. I definitely want to see this view again in the fall.

C&C always welcome.

 

[Trent Watts]

I think your efforts paid off Alan. A beautiful shot for sure. Yes imagine this in the fall with a blaze of colour.

 

[AlanLichty]

I think your efforts paid off Alan. A beautiful shot for sure. Yes imagine this in the fall with a blaze of colour.

Thanks Trent - I am in the process if collecting a set of launch points for new views of fall in the Gorge right now and the list is growing

 

[lionking]

I wonder how magical it will look in the fall, the top left feels a bit blue to me...

Cheers.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice view - a waterfall nestled in the woods. Looks like your fall season is pretty well spoken for now.

 

[AlanLichty]

I wonder how magical it will look in the fall, the top left feels a bit blue to me...

Cheers.

Thanks Andrey - I will play with that area a bit. I am still working on color profiles for the 166mm lens on the Mavic 3 Pro so anything is possible.

Nice view - a waterfall nestled in the woods. Looks like your fall season is pretty well spoken for now.

Thanks Jameel - not our usual view of these falls. They are tucked back into a side canyon from the Gorge so not easy to get shots from a distance.

I have never had good views of the Gorge for fall leaves from the ground so I am taking careful inventory of the types of trees from aerial views. Nice that my waterfall quests are also enhancing my list of potential viewpoints for the seasons.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Thanks Andrey - I will play with that area a bit. I am still working on color profiles for the 166mm lens on the Mavic 3 Pro so anything is possible.

Have you tried Adobe's DNG Profile editor?

 

[AlanLichty]

Have you tried Adobe's DNG Profile editor?

I have been using the color calibration tool in Lightroom and then setting up presets so far. I have used the Adobe DNG editor for IR stuff but haven't tried it for this. Can you save a preset from the Profile editor that I can import into LR?

 

[Jameel Hyder]

I have been using the color calibration tool in Lightroom and then setting up presets so far. I have used the Adobe DNG editor for IR stuff but haven't tried it for this. Can you save a preset from the Profile editor that I can import into LR?

I am sure you can. I am not a LR user but Camera RAW allows you to do this.

 

[AlanLichty]

I am sure you can. I am not a LR user but Camera RAW allows you to do this.

Camera RAW and LR's settings are one and the same.

 

[JimFox]

What a great view of that falls Alan. I really like it!

 

[lionking]

I have been using the color calibration tool in Lightroom and then setting up presets so far. I have used the Adobe DNG editor for IR stuff but haven't tried it for this. Can you save a preset from the Profile editor that I can import into LR?

You don't need Adobe DNG edtitor, unless you want to bypass adobe profiles(Color, Landscape and so on), like for linear or so on, the camera RAW or Lightroom can remember camera specific profiles.

 

[AlanLichty]

You don't need Adobe DNG edtitor, unless you want to bypass adobe profiles(Color, Landscape and so on), like for linear or so on, the camera RAW or Lightroom can remember camera specific profiles.

The 70mm and 166mm lens/sensors for the Mavic 3 Pro are different from the previous profiles I had created for the 162mm lens/sensor on the Mavic 3 drone so I am still tweaking what I want out of them. Adobe doesn't have profiles for these at all but I can get a pretty good head start by using the color calibration tool in LR to create a preset. The one I am using for the 166mm lens/sensor is pretty close now so when I import all of the images from the SD card I can just use the metadata to select all of the shots taken with 166mm and apply that preset. I have a different preset for the 70mm lens/sensor (different sensor) and one for 24mm as well. Pretty easy to import and assign presets this way in bulk.

I just looked at the Adobe DNG editor - that's a 10 year old piece of code in need of some serious user interface updates. I might fiddle about with it just because I have it but I am not sure whether this will supplant my current color profiles.

 

[AlanLichty]

What a great view of that falls Alan. I really like it!

Thanks Jim - not sure I really want to go closer to those falls (especially this time of year) with all of the people below. It's not a spot flagged as a No-Fly zone but to be honest it should be.

 

[Beth]

i like how it just appears out of the woods like that.

 

[AlanLichty]

i like how it just appears out of the woods like that.

Thanks - it's buried back in a small side canyon in the Gorge so you almost have to know where to look for it to see it. It's not really visible at 24mm. I had studied the maps in advance and and planned this flight to get the shot.