Katahdin Stream Falls

Maine Wilderness

Hiking Hunt Trail, the last leg of the Appalachian Trail, to Katahdin Stream Falls on Mt. Katahdin in Baxter State Park, Maine.

Katahdin Stream Falls

Katahdin Stream Falls is an 80ft waterfall located on Hunt Trail, the last leg of the Appalachian Trail, on Mt. Katahdin in Baxter State Park, Maine. It is about a 1.2 mile hike from Katahdin Stream Campground. This panorama is stitched from 150 original images. I had repacked my backpack from shooting timelapses the night before and forgot to grab my case of filters, so I didn’t have a 10-stop neutral density filter for really long exposures. I didn’t want to go smaller than f/16 due to diffraction, and the longest shutter speed at ISO 64 was half a second. So I used the in-camera multiple exposure feature and combined ten 0.5 sec exposures for a simulated exposure of 5 seconds. I repeated this 15 times for each frame of the panorama. The stitched image is 42 x 63 inches, without enlarging! Camera settings: 70mm, f/16, ISO 64, 10 exposures of 0.5 seconds for a simulated 5 second shutter. Stitching data: 3 rows of 5 images x 10 exposures for a total of 150 images. Equipment used: Nikon D850, Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8, and Really Right Stuff TVC-34L tripod & pano/gimbal head. In-camera multiple exposure, RAW conversion via Lightroom, aligned via PTGui, and manually blended via masks in Photoshop.

Katahdin Stream Falls

Katahdin Stream Falls is an 80ft waterfall located on Hunt Trail, the last leg of the Appalachian Trail, on Mt. Katahdin in Baxter State Park, Maine. It is about a 1.2 mile hike from Katahdin Stream Campground. This panorama is stitched from 120 original images. I used the in-camera multiple exposure feature and combined ten 1/5 second exposures for a simulated exposure of 2 seconds. I repeated this 12 times for each frame of the panorama. The stitched image is 52 x 72 inches, without enlarging! Camera settings: 70mm, f/16, ISO 64, 10 exposures of 1/5 seconds for a simulated 2 second shutter. Stitching data: 4 rows of 3 images x 10 exposures for a total of 120 images. Equipment used: Nikon D850, Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8, and Really Right Stuff TVC-34L tripod & pano/gimbal head. In-camera multiple exposure, RAW conversion via Lightroom, aligned via PTGui, and manually blended via masks in Photoshop.

Katahdin Stream Falls

Katahdin Stream Falls is an 80ft waterfall located on Hunt Trail, the last leg of the Appalachian Trail, on Mt. Katahdin in Baxter State Park, Maine. It is about a 1.2 mile hike from Katahdin Stream Campground. I climbed out on a fallen tree and rock in the middle of the falls to shoot a 360° panorama. The full sphere is 208 megapixels and can be explored here: https://roundme.com/tour/216002/view/597963/ Camera settings: 14mm, f/9, ISO 64, and three exposures of 1/20, 1/5, & 0.8 seconds. Stitching data: 2 rows of 6 images plus 1 offset nadir x 3 exposures for a total of 39 images. Equipment used: Nikon D850, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8, and Really Right Stuff TVC-34L tripod & pano/gimbal head. RAW conversion via Lightroom, tonemapped with Photomatix, aligned via PTGui, and manually blended via masks in Photoshop.

Katahdin Stream

Chris Lawrence getting some close-up shots of the small waterfall.

Katahdin Stream

This is a small side waterfall along Katahdin Stream Falls on Hunt Trail, the last leg of the Appalachian Trail, in Baxter State Park, Maine. This is actually a panorama stitched from 160 original images. I used the in-camera multiple exposure feature and combined ten 2.5 second exposures for a simulated exposure of 25 seconds. I repeated this 16 times for each frame of the panorama. The stitched image is 32 x 47 inches, after cropping to taste. Camera settings: 70mm, f/16, ISO 64, 10 exposures of 2.5 seconds for a simulated 25 second shutter. Stitching data: 4 rows of 4 images x 10 exposures for a total of 160 images. Equipment used: Nikon D850, Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8, and Really Right Stuff TVC-34L tripod & pano/gimbal head. In-camera multiple exposure, RAW conversion via Lightroom, aligned via PTGui, and manually blended via masks in Photoshop.

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Footbridge over Katahdin Stream Falls

This is the footbridge at the base of Katahdin Stream Falls on Hunt Trail, the last leg of the Appalachian Trail, in Baxter State Park, Maine. It was challenging to shoot from a bouncing bridge in the wind, especially with hikers coming and going where I had to move and try to get back into the same position again. The full sphere is 593 megapixels and can be explored here: https://roundme.com/tour/216002/view/598005/ Camera settings: 24mm, f/16, ISO 64, 1.3 seconds. Stitching data: 3 rows of 10 images plus 1 offset nadir for a total of 31 images. Equipment used: Nikon D850, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8, and Really Right Stuff TVC-34L tripod & pano/gimbal head. RAW conversion via Lightroom, aligned via PTGui, and manually blended via masks in Photoshop.