ENGLISHMAN RIVER FALLS:
MANUAL TRANSFORMS
The subject featured in this month’s article is Englishman River Falls, located just outside Parksville,
Vancouver Island, B.C. According to local legend, it’s named as such after local First Nations people
discovered the skeleton of a white European male not far from the waterfall pictured in this photo.
He was assumed to have drowned while attempting to cross the river. Hence, the river got named after
this unfortunate, unknown Brit.MARTIN EVENING
DEVELOPING THE SHOT
The Englishman River Falls Provincial Park has a circular
hiking trail which starts off with this impressive view of
the first of the two main waterfalls. I took this photo from
the suspension footbridge that spans the valley below. To
capture the image, I used a Sony A7R II camera with a Canon
14mm wide-angle lens, plus a Metabones Canon-to-Sony
lens adapter. I wanted to capture this photo at an optimumlens aperture of f/8, which meant mounting the camera on
a tripod, as it required a time exposure of 1/80. Now, the
suspension bridge was fairly stable, except for when other
hikers were walking on it. So, I had to wait patiently for a
gap in the foot traffic for the best time to shoot.
One thing I was aware of when using a wide-angle
lens is how, when you tilt the camera downward (as I did