I went to this waterfall about a week ago specifically to shoot this view surrounded by Autumn Colour and which is exactly what I did as soon as I arrived and just one of those shots is shown in the second image below - there were some lovely skies as well BTW. But after working through my files from that day, I found that I actually preferred this more intimate view of the flowing water at the edge of the falls, with just a hint of the autumn colours in a few fallen leaves that had become trapped - so I went to capture lots of in-your-face colour (at their peak right now in NW Scotland), yet ended up much preferring this more subtle version instead, as shown in the first image.
Perhaps also worth mentioning here, is that the wide view of the falls was me concentrating on getting exactly what I had come to shoot and then perhaps putting all that extra enthusiasm into slightly overprocessing the file. But the second image was at the end of the day and was a sort of absent minded shot of what just happened to be below me. I had put on a 10 stop just for the hell of it about half an hour before and had been shooting the falls etc, but nothing seemed to be working. But just before I began to tear down my kit and head for home, I just sort of randomly framed some rocks on the foreground with a few leaves that seemed to be stuck on them and hit the shutter release, before I then packed up all my gear and walked back to the car. Now the reason I mention this, is because I have done this type of thing before and perhaps you have too? So hopefully you will know what I mean when I talk about about putting all of my effort into concentrating on what I thought would be the main shot (or shots), but then taking a throw away shot at the end of the shoot, that when I reviewed it later on the computer screen, seemed to have whole lot more creativity within it.
So perhaps we should try to think less about what we are doing
Dave
