Helmcken Falls, the tallest (463 ft) waterfall at Wells Gray park. The main viewpoint requires no hiking, while the route behind is an easy 5 mi round trip that starts at a nearby parking area. Known for its large snow cone, by 4/25 there was only enough left to block my view from behind. Kinda had bad timing for this overall, both too soon and too late and then I hit it with the sun both blazing and shadowed in the canyon.
Extra photos include a view of the snowpack behind obscuring the falls but maintaining the view out over the valley, a shot just upstream of the falls with a rainbow in the mist (would’ve been cool over the falls, not bitter at all haha) and a little tighter shot of the falls.
That’s the end of my time at Wells Gray, Spahats was under renovation still and the rest of the park was still closed for winter.
Yeah, i’m still learning darktable so some of these images may still come out looking a bit odd on the post processing. I’m likely to go back through each of the ones i already uploaded to flickr and reupload better processed ones now that I’m getting a better handle on the software, because there are some that I feel already look much better after a second pass.
As for the over-exposure on these, yeah I got a newer lens over the winter and when I got there I realized I never got any ND filters for it so I was just dealing with the sun. I tried playing with the images but found that I could never find anything that made me happy, and I didn’t think the original image was good enough to dig too deep into it if I’m being honest. The waterfall itself is doing all the heavy lifting on that one haha.
Long story short, the processing should improve over time but I thank you very much for the advice.