Lower Falls at Red Rock Point, Yellowstone National Park.
When I previously photographed these falls in 2019 I shot them from Artist’s Point on the south rim of the canyon. As I planned this visit I decided I wanted to do a gigapixel plus shot from the Red Rock Point on the north rim. At this location the falls are only half the distance away compared to Artist’s Point. I waited to later in the morning to allow the sun to reach to the valley floor. The Yellowstone River was flowing at nearly flood stage so an impressive amount of water was rolling off of the falls.
This location is one of the most photographed scenes in Yellowstone. As is almost always the case, my goal for this shot was to create one of my trademark gigapixel plus wall mural photos. Anytime I am shooting an epic location like this it is my goal to shoot the world's highest resolution photo of the location.
I shot this using my Canon R5 and 300mmf/4 lens using the R5's focus bracketing mode. The camera was mounted on a Nodal Ninja M2+ nodal head. All the nearby trees required that I shoot it as a focus bracketed set of images. There were some 3,878 individual focus bracketed images used to create this shot. My settings were f/13, 1/160th sec. ISO 400. The focus stacking was done using Helicon Focus Pro. I used PTGui Pro to stitch the images together. Final processing was done in Photoshop.
The original image is: 2.86 Giga-pixels, 46,189 x 62,115 pixels, 154″ x 207″ (12′ 10″ x 17′ 3″) 300 PPI un- cropped image size.
This link takes you to a virtual tour of the photo: https://abbascreationsphotography.com/Yellowstone%20Falls%202024/index.html
The green in the water at the top of the falls looks a little weird.