Reynolds Wrap +Repost

Terrific elements top to bottom.

I like your comp and the feeling of movement with both the water and the clouds.

Another stunner here. Great atmosphere and light as usual. Amazing how long the light lasts up in the mountains.

This is well done BUT~ cutting off the waterfall left in mid height drives me crazy

I struggled with that a bit, Rick - the problem is that the waterfall didn't point directly enough at the mountain. At first I had the lens at full width to get the waterfall in, but the mountain was way too small, I thought. I chose to cut it off because the light on the mountain is the real show, and I wanted it more pronounced in the frame via a longer FL. I find that I frequently spend a majority of my composition time worrying about small things at the edge of the frame, what's getting cut off, etc without thinking about overall balance. I was trying to get away from that at Glacier, since there's so much going on in these locations that something is likely to get cut off. Ideally the landscape would allow me perfection of both aspects, but it didn't seem to care this time.. I could have shot it wide and then enlarged the sky/mountain in PS, but the midground seemed busy enough that it would be difficult to do so cleanly. Maybe I need to use the Warp tool more often for such things.

Wow Alex... I like it very much. I'm ok with the crop of the waterfall, I think you captured all the action. Do you try to avoid cropping? Also what Ss did you use for the falls.

Really, really nice. Love the scope of this image and the peak playing peek-a-boo with the clouds.

Nice shot Alex. I like the streams of water coming off the rock ledges and the light reflecting off the water. It feels a shame the mountain is a bit obscured, but the light bouncing around the clouds is also very nice. My eye gets drawn to the little tree in the center of the frame and I get stuck there a bit (maybe worth a clone out if you don't mind doing that sort of thing). Nice shot!

Wonderful mix of elements Alex. I like how you captured the cloud smacking right into the mountain side.

Excellent image, Alex. Every pixel is working here.

The light and atmosperics make this special. I agree about the cut-off waterfall. I understand your reasoning and sometimes it's good to free ourselves of our restrictions. If you wanted the mountain to remain large, maybe next time you could shoot a few exposures taking it all in at this focal length and stitch them together to include everything. I know you were pushed for time with the cloud movement, but maybe if there was enough time to shoot different f/stops there was enough to shoot a few exposures tracking across the scene. Not to worry, though. This one would be a wall hanger in my house.

Thanks again, everyone.

Narvin, the waterfall was 1/15, f/16, ISO 100. Normally you'd need 1/6 or 1/8 to get similar movement, but this was very fast-moving water.

David, good call on the tree - I'd seen it before but didn't think it was too distracting. Would definitely be an easy clone, I'll probably do that before sending it to print.

Morris, I had thought about shooting one ultra-wide for the FG and one a bit zoomed in for the mountain, but I was too concerned with the ability to smoothly blend, so I just wanted the overall balance to be right in-camera. Now that I see it on the computer, there's definitely a line below the trees I could easily blend - but it looked a lot busier (and larger) in that area through my eyes, as compared to how small it gets through a wide lens.

As far as getting the whole waterfall in, it was impossible to do while retaining the leading line - even at maximum width, a bit of it was still cut off. Couldn't back up any, because my tripod was backed up against a ledge - I'd have to lose the perspective entirely to get it all in with the 18mm-FF-equivalent lens. I definitely felt limited by the wide end of the 12-24mm on this trip a couple times - I'm looking to switch to a 10-24mm (15mm FF equiv on the wide end) for exactly these types of situations.

Alex - The mood and lighting looks pretty spectacular. The comp does seem a little disjointed to me. The falls feel cut off, and I read of your limitations to include them all. The base of the far peak on the right peaks my interest over there, maybe more than it should. Giventhe limitations you faced, I might have concentrated on some the falls within this image instead of trying to force this comp. Maybe you did, not sure how the current was in the stream if that would have been an issue as well.

Thanks for the input Harry.

I could have stood further into the stream to focus on a different section of falls, but that wasn't the issue. The issue was the angle of the falls. If I went further in, the falls would be more horizontal across the frame if I kept the mountain centered (which I was intent on doing). This would destroy the leading line quality of the falls that drew me to them in the first place. At any rate, I only spent about 20 minutes making these assessments and making the exposures before I moved on, further exploring the area.

I've attached a repost, with a wider, less-cut-off exposure of the falls blended in, and the middle tree cloned out.

Tremendous conditions here and great shot. I too feel the waterfall is a little cut off.

A very interesting image -- both in terms of subject matter and composition. Well done, Alex.