Dry Creek Falls

Well composed and I love the lush greens and the chosen shutter speed.

well composed & nice light

Hamed

Daniel - I always remember some lens vignetting when using the shift on this lens, which would be a problem when stitching images for a pano. Do you have to correct for this, or maybe I was trying to shift to the extreme? The left side feels a little tight, though maybe a reason for comping this way. Those leaves do add a lot of interest to the FG.

Hi Daniel, this is a really nice scene. I really like the comp and the detail is excellent throughout the frame.

Really beautiful greens and exposure,,

I find the bottom of the frame sucks my eye down and out a bit too much in this one, as the shot is really all about the falls for me. Maybe it's the 50/50 top/bottom AND 50/50 bottom horizontally combined that segments the comp and keeps it from being all that cohesive, at least in my view. I know this spot well though, and I think maybe you've already shot some stronger foreground lines over at left before? Lenses like this are fun to play around with but I also find it's much harder to compose that way. This isn't all that bad either though, it's just I figured you'll be back here many times and might like to consider the various critique. It's a great location as long as you don't have several drunken hillbillies poaching and shooting wildly at random things to contend with.....oh, but that's another story for another time.

Beautiful composition and color!

Daniel,

Initially I was thinking the composition was a little disjointed, kind of along Marc's comments. Then I decided though how much I liked the bush/leaves on the right and how much they not only tie the top and the bottom together, but fill in nicely to balance the scene. I also like the diagonals on the rock wall and how those lines pull the eye back to the falls, almost counteracting the water running out at the bottom. Love the colors (saturation just borderline) and the processing is excellent. Works for me.

Lon

Thanks for the comments. Just about ready to give up on this for the obvious deficiencies - half and half vertically and the falls right smack in the middle and not totally held together, but I like it anyway, so there you go.

Sweet!!

The leaves are large enough to balance the foreground, but I do think the left side is a little close to the curve. Still a nice flow to lead me to the falls. Love the lush greens.

I like the line that the water creates through the image, alos love the bush in the foreground. My thoughts are really that since the water is the main feature here, it really dominates the left hand side of the image, comes down in the middle and immediately dives to the left and stays there. Haven't been to this location myself so not sure if it's possible, but if the water fall could be positioned a bit more to the rhs of the scene it may balance things out a bit better ?? Just my thoughts

Beautiful image of Dry Creek Falls Daniel. I like how you included the foreground vegetation, but I wish the foreground stream was a little bit more centered. Otherwise, this is an excellent image.

I love the shot just as it is - I wouldn't change anything. You've done a great job of blending. I am curious how you got all the leaves to remain still for the three shot blend!

Excellent comp and light.

Wick - the lower leaves were amazingly stable. The upper ones were waving like crazy, so I had to manually composite-in the sharpest of many tries.

Very nice way to capture this falls! Maybe the best comp I have seen of it!