Hydroponic Crop

Gallery: LandscapePosted May 28, 201095 views10 comments

A very small section of the Little Niagara waterfall I shot the otehr day, before setting up the tripod. The title here actually just refers to the fact that the posted image has been cropped down to eliminate a leaf coming down from the top in the middle of the frame--I debated some time whether to post the original or this.

D-90, 1/80th sec., f-4.8 at 55mm. Again, on the D-90 the numerical ISOs go down to 200 and then there are three levels below it, with which I am not familiar. And it shows up as some strangely high number in PS, when in fact it is probably near 80 or 100. Thanks for looking and any C&C!! Larger posted.

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Comment posted by Bill Maile on May 28, 2010 at 8:35 AM

hmm, yes i can see another crop possibly to eliminate the bright spots on the greens. ??

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Comment posted by Greg Maklae on May 28, 2010 at 11:28 AM

Would prefer the green area to be shaded. maybe also a smaller f/stop to increase the shutter speed.

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Comment posted by Bill Maile on May 28, 2010 at 12:32 PM

Polarizer used as well.

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Comment posted by Bill Maile on May 28, 2010 at 12:57 PM

This was the larger version I debated on posting.

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Comment posted by Bill Chambers on May 28, 2010 at 1:49 PM

I actually like the second version better. The water seems to have too much cyan in it - might want to work on your color balance some.

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Comment posted by Walt Sterneman on May 28, 2010 at 1:55 PM

I actually like the shutter speed choice here Bill. I'm not one that likes the cotton candy water. It shows nice motion but still looks like water. I might try to selectively darken the bright spots as well as work on the water color as mentioned above.

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Comment posted by Bill Maile on May 28, 2010 at 2:06 PM

Thansk for the feedback guys. It was kind of a tough little spot, bright spots and very dark spots over the water. Maybe the polarizer and darkness are affecting the color?? Up a stop or two on SS?? But I do like some of this water, the top part where it is coming over the rock is nice to me.

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Comment posted by Michael Lowe on May 28, 2010 at 4:58 PM

I like this, Bill. I really don't mind the brighter BG foliage. It's not blown out and distracting.

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on May 28, 2010 at 6:14 PM

Bill,

I can understand your decision to crop this, but I could go either way with this. The leaf in the original isn't all that distracting - at least it's not bright. In the cropped version the dappled light on the greens is very nice, but it's enticing and does pull me away from the waterfalls. So, not distracting, but a competing element IMHO. The most intriguing part of the frame is the top cascade and the glimmering highlights behind the waterfalls. Just makes me want to zoom in closer, but of course it's not always possible to get to those compositions we sometimes wish for.
In the end, still a very nice image of these cascades.

Lon

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Comment posted by Nicolas Belokurov on May 28, 2010 at 11:09 PM

I think it's nice and the greens work for me- they tend to balance the cold blue of the water.
Nice work

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