Falls

[RBFritz]

One of several falls on the east fork. Taken early morning deep in the canyon.Thoughts?

[MattBurt]

I imagine you meant for it to be somewhat dark but it seems overly dark on my screen.

[RBFritz]

Matt,I did intend for it to be dark. There is some small amount of detail in the dark areas but I didn't want too much. I use a spyder calibrated BenQ 27 monitor, if that helps. Sometimes I wonder too if what I see is too dark compared to what others see. Should I lighten it a bit for better critiquing?

[francois]

It's also very dark on my monitor but I like it. Try to submit a slightly lighter version so we can compare.

[brandtb]

Great subject, composition, along with the general "feeling/atmoshphere" - along with the deep "blacks". That said, I think they can be deep but not crushed - a good deal of those areas "appear to be" crushed though. I think you can get deep deep blacks without blowing it out to no detail and I think this would be a better direction to go. This is a very subtle change to be clear.

[RBFritz]

Another file of the same image. Not as under exposed as the last one I used. Better?

[RBFritz]

OOPS

[RBFritz]

Woke up in the middle of the night almost a week after getting back and realized I had shot everything in JPG. Dang!!

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Woke up in the middle of the night almost a week after getting back and realized I had shot everything in JPG. Dang!!

I thought I was the only one who did that from time to time.

As for the images, I much prefer the dark, moody, mysterioso first version, even though I, too, at first thought it was a bit too dark.