water fall

[mikehawthorne]

always wanted to do this type of shot opinions wanted.

mike hawthorne

[Dr. Harout]

Beautiful.

[KevinBarrett]

That's pretty nice! A little too closely cropped at the bottom, but I like the exposure.

[Birma]

Hi Mike - what a great waterfall. Where abouts is it?

I agree with Kevin's thought about the bottom of the picture, perhaps a portait shaped picture would help? The blown bit of sky in the top right hand corner is a tiny bit distracting.

I like ths treatment of water, but you can also go to the other extreme and with really fast shutter speed (e.g. 1/500) start to show the waterfall in a totally different way. Here is a quick snap to show what I mean, 1/640, F5.6 ISO80 (don't ask ). I love the shapes revealed in the water that you never see with the human eye.

[Dr. Harout]

Birma, though the shot is quite good, but I've would used a tripod and long exposure, giving a creamy look to the flow, thus more romantic and calming. This gives like more of a rough terrain look and more dramatic feeling. But that's just me

[mikehawthorne]

i agree about the tight cropped bottom but there were some rather ugly rocks/concrete lokking lumps.

i have seen this type of shot and i longed to have a go feel fairly pleased. it was in martiniqe west indies and it was a very wet raining afternoon.
the camera was propped on a wet rock and i had the (after)effects of rum punch.

mikehawthorne

ps i was even more pleased with my locale man in the other photo, thanks all for your comments.

pps it was on the sony 18-70 lens

[springm]

Portrait orientation is very reasonable for waterfalls as it emphasizes the "falling". But in this case I would try to crop off a bit of the top, too, and eliminate the distracting blown out sky. Additionally you get more into a panoramic format which would live from the tension between the vertical flow and the horizontal expansion. Further more adding a bit of local contrast enhancement by unsharp masking with a low strength, maybe 0.2, a large diameter (60 - 100px) and 0 treshold might add those little bits of enforcement that would make the pic more vivid to add that 'wow' factor. I think the basis for this is already quite good!

Markus