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Multnomah Falls Base and Pool

The Least Chosen Angle of Multnomah Falls

This is not your classic shot of Multnomah Falls in Oregon. It is indeed not your classic shot of any waterfall. The base is always a secondary subject. But many have their own beauty, if taken at the correct angle. This one has a lot going for it, chosen for the rock, the moss, the ferns, the semi-soft water spilling over the lower falls, even the dry look lower right. The juxtaposed barren look of this angled hillside, is such a contrast to the lush green and wet. There's a sense of power, dynamics and yet a dead calm to the scene. Even the logs tucked into the area below and to the right of the falls grabs your attention. How big are they? And I could have lowered the shutter speed so the falls appear smooth, tripod-assisted, but there are times when the buttery-smooth shot needs to take second place to a realism the scene demands. 

When you are out shooting a scene, looking for a particular look, don't forget to include a few angles, or exposures outside of your goal for the day. This one is an outside of the box example. 

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A Bit Controversial, but "That's My Story and I'm Sticking To It".

Who took the first lightfast photograph? Well as far as I'm concerned it was Henry Fox Talbot. He achieved the first lightfast photo. Lightfast is the ability of any photograph, in this case, to be able to hold the image, be it black and white or color, in the presence of light. All attempts before Mssr Talbot failed to be lightfast. In other words, they faded away. Henry's lasted. 
Here is his 1835 positive of    Latticed window at lacock abbey

Rough Crude and Full of Noise

 Obviously this was not in focus. His whole purpose was to develop the technology titled Calotype, or Talbotype, which ending outflanking the technology known as Daguerreotype in that era in causing prints to last. This is really where hanging prints on a wall or placing them in frames all started.  He used silver iodide, instead of silver chloride in the photogenic drawing process and silver nitrate and gallic acid in the development process. Not very interesting stuff today, but in that time it was latest tech news available. And he was not the most photogenic man.

But he did make his process stick. And for that we all have Mr Talbot to thank for all the pictures we are taking today because without him our photos might well not be able to last. Think not? Here's a quote from Wikipedia: Talbot claimed experiments beginning in early 1834, when Louis Daguerre in 1839 exhibited his pictures taken by the sun. After Daguerre's discovery was announced, without details, Talbot showed his three-and-a-half-year-old pictures at the Royal Institution on 25 January 1839. Got any other suggestions? Toss em in the Comments Box please and thanks for any you'd like to share. 

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