Falls' Icicle Details + Repost

This is a wonderful high key image Catherine, love the shapes of the jagged ice and the subtle blue cast. The water flow adds variety to the image. Wish I had the notion to head to the falls during that cold snap! Looks like the entrance to an ice dragons lair!
And to answer your question, you know what they say...stupid kills, but not nearly enough!

Love ice shots Catherine, and in a little while, I will leaving in search of some ice on a local stream. Yes, I like the water flow included, you did a beautiful job here, I'm liking it. oh for your other question, when you're young, you're bullet proof, when you get to my age, you grew enough brains to know there is no such thing as bullet proof : .
John

Very nice shot Catherine, love those ice formations, beautiful. Here are just couple things I think could help improve the image. I would really like to see more blacks in the shot, contrast is very low and therefore I think a lot of detail is lost in the ice there. Also having true blacks (or close too) gives the shot much nicer 3D appearance. And maybe even little more flowing water on left, would have been nice. I like that touch you added with the moving water, just wish maybe I could see little more of it. Overall great shot just way it is, well done.

Mice composition.

This is beautiful Catherine. Your composition and exposure seems perfect .

Another lovely ice shot, Catherine. I love the icicles. I don't mind the water on the left - it's just a little too bright so close to the border. Overall there's a slight green toning in the image. My personal preference would be a hint more on the magenta/blue side of the spectrum. Overall - excellent work.

Love the icicles--looks frigid!! I might have included a bit more water, if you could tone down the bright highlites some. Snoqualmie is a great place, im sorry i wasnt much of a shutterbug when i was out there.

I like everything about this but do agree it could use a little more contrast. I also like the amount of water flow you have on the left.

BTW, I was one of the ones who climbed over the barricade....got some real nice stuff down by the water's edge though....

Beautiful shot Catherine. Love the icicles and all the shapes in general. There does seem to me to be something a little sinister here but whatever it is, I like it very much.

Pat

Nice work Catherine
Very creative and magical capture

Very nice Catherine. I really didn't notice it as flowing water on the right until I read your description. It breaks up the repetition and I kinda feel like it distracts for me. I think just a crop to the other side of your sig improves it for me. I like the amount of contrast though. A very interesting and appealing scene.

Thanks everyone for your thoughtful comments.

Eric: Thank you, yes, there was a lot of spray, and I didn't want to lose the effect. I chose in the repost to burn and dodge as a compromise to setting a black point. Looks better, I think. Do you?
Andreas: Yep, you're right on the green cast. So I changed it toward blue.
Stan: Now, you just have lots of great excuses to come back to the great PNW for lots of visits!
Mark W.: Oh! you bad, bad boy! (Actually, I'm envious. Now that I am old I am too scared.) So let's what you got!
Pat: Joseph id'd the sinister element. It's the entrance to an ice dragon's lair! Love it.

I was really hoping for a close-up, Catherine. I actually like the original best. The darker values in the repost are less ethereal than the gray tones in the original, and I think those soft-grays actually work better.

Hi Catherine Really well seen and crafted. Fantastic vertical lines of icicles Agree with tony about the better lighter grey tones on the first post. A very captivating scene catherine.
Albert Darmo Canada

Catherine, fantastic work! The specular highlights really help the viewer associate that water is flowing over the ice formations.

SS