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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: chuckn on July 27, 2014, 05:32:21 pm

Title: Wilderness Waterfalls
Post by: chuckn on July 27, 2014, 05:32:21 pm

Found these waterfalls on a recent backpacking trip. Comments??

Chuck.

Title: Re: Wilderness Waterfalls
Post by: luxborealis on July 27, 2014, 07:13:47 pm

Interesting jumble of (hyper-processed) colour. Doesn't do much for me as waterfalls, since the waterfalls are not very distinct.

Title: Re: Wilderness Waterfalls
Post by: chuckn on July 27, 2014, 11:53:16 pm

Thanks for the comment Terry. What drew me to make this photograph were the many different shaped rocks and the contrast of the plants and water. I mostly wanted to experiment with contrasting color, light and darkness. I agree it's a little over processed.

Chuck.

Title: Re: Wilderness Waterfalls
Post by: stamper on July 28, 2014, 03:50:42 am

Maybe if you had titled it falling water then it might have been more appropriate? I agree with Chuckn except it isn't over processed.

Title: Re: Wilderness Waterfalls
Post by: David Anderson on July 28, 2014, 04:33:32 am

Tough one..

I don't mind the processing and I can see lots of interesting angles and shapes in the rocks, but the shot is a bit scattered IMHO.
Maybe a closer shot or a wider shot ?

Title: Re: Wilderness Waterfalls
Post by: brandtb on July 28, 2014, 06:16:06 am

Chuck - can't say this is a great shot - but has some very nice things in it... but what draws me to it are perhaps the same things you find interesting as in

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What drew me to make this photograph were the many different shaped rocks and the contrast of the plants and water. I mostly wanted to experiment with contrasting color, light and darkness

.  I like the chiaroscuro...the contrast btw the lights/darks...and the bright planes of the rock faces.  I would have definitely shot this too.  I think you might consider cropping off the left 2/5ths for a start and see what that looks like. And then trying different crops..."getting tighter".  You have two areas of focus... a left and a right...I don't think this helps the images so much.  The processing would require a great deal of care in bringing up lights/bringing down darks, selective areas of sharpness on different rock faces, and local color adjustments (bringing down luminance of the greens in upper plants e.g.) - the sort  of trial/error work that might take some time and iterations. /B

Title: Re: Wilderness Waterfalls
Post by: shawnino on July 28, 2014, 10:22:22 am

Can you please post the original?
Thanks.

Title: Re: Wilderness Waterfalls
Post by: chuckn on July 28, 2014, 03:01:18 pm

Attached are three more images (different angles) of the same set of falls. It was an amazing place, but difficult to photograph.

Chuck.

Title: Re: Wilderness Waterfalls
Post by: chuckn on July 28, 2014, 03:03:28 pm

I guess I need to attach these again.

Title: Re: Wilderness Waterfalls
Post by: David Anderson on July 28, 2014, 07:46:12 pm

I like these vertical versions.
 #3 is the standout.

Title: Re: Wilderness Waterfalls
Post by: luxborealis on July 29, 2014, 08:03:36 am

Quote from: David Anderson on July 28, 2014, 07:46:12 pm

I like these vertical versions.
 #3 is the standout.

+1

Title: Re: Wilderness Waterfalls
Post by: Bruce Cox on July 29, 2014, 05:13:52 pm

I'll go for #3 too.  In most of the others my eye goes to the upper right corner and gets stuck there.

Title: Re: Wilderness Waterfalls
Post by: BernardLanguillier on July 30, 2014, 04:43:05 am

#3 is the closest for me also, but:
- I think you should have used a PL filter, maybe not at 100% but maybe around 60% to incease saturation,
- the image still feels a bit too symmetric somehow, I would have shot more from the left if possible at all.

Cheers,
Bernard