Two Photographs From Drift Creek Falls
Drift Creek Falls is an easy day hike located just outside of Lincoln City near the Oregon Coast. It’s only a few miles long and the end of the hike treats the adventurous with a rather epic suspension bridge and a beautiful waterfall. More or less the things day hikes in the Pacific Northwest are famous for. It’s one of those places I tend to visit again and again because it doesn’t take much planning to get there and surprisingly it doesn’t have many other visitors on a daily basis, especially if I’m able to go mid-week.
For these photographs I used my Hasselblad 500c/m and a few rolls of Kodak T-Max 400. Kodak T-max isn’t my preferred film for landscape work quite honestly because I do find the results to be a little bit on the “clinical” side of things, but hey, sometimes you just simply have to work with the film stock you have on hand. I left home at about six o’clock in the morning in order to ensure some subdued light and it’s not like I can just stop at a store and pick up film along the way.
Both photographs were made using a tripod and exposing the image at about two seconds and f/16. It was early enough in the morning still that the light wasn’t reaching over the top of the mountains and I wanted a long depth of field. It’s also an old photographers trick to photograph waterfalls with a longer shutter speed to get that silky look with the water coming down the side of the cliff.
In the second photograph you can see the suspension bridge blending in with the trees in the top right of the frame.
I’ve probably made about two dozen photographs at Drift Creek Falls that I’m happy with over the years but these two are probably the most recent, going back to the beginning of winter this year.
Camera: Hasselblad 500c/m camera with 80mm f/2.8 lens.
Film: Kodak T-Max 400 in medium format.
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