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The River

by Jim Zablotny

Gallery: LandscapePosted April 4, 2015128 views4 comments
Sometimes I do something totally off the wall and unexpected and go abstract. This is the top edge of Tahquamenon Falls where some snow melt meets the tannin stained water of the main channel.I sot at 1/200th of a second at f11 to get enough motion stopped, but not enough to freeze the flow. I ran some luminosity masks on the shadow darks, bright lights, and midtones to bring out some of the brilliant tones of the water. I hyper-sharpened the water to give the image a painted texture. K5 IIs, 300mm f4 Let me know what you think. Thank you.....................Jim

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4 comments
Comment posted by Mark Seaver on April 4, 2015 at 9:13 AM
Jim, I too enjoy such abstracts and this one is very inviting with the warm tones, lower right, and the cool tones, upper left. It does a fine job of saying warm summer's day (even if it was taken on a chilly spring day, :biggrin: ) and creating a good sense of being there.
Registered on January 23, 2011, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments
Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on April 4, 2015 at 10:35 AM
colors and comp are great with that nice diagonal split but the strong motion blur kinda ruins it for me. A much faster shutter speed, say 320/sec might have stopped the water some and allowed the finer details below the surface to show up. Still an interesting abstract as is
Registered on January 24, 2011, 576 Posts, 6942 Comments
Comment posted by Howard Cheek on April 4, 2015 at 11:37 AM
Interesting the way you went about this Jim, there's many ways to skin a cat :wink:
The diagonal aspect, sense of movement, and clash of warm/cool tones makes it for me. :toast:
Registered on July 24, 2008, 1201 Posts, 10758 Comments
Comment posted by Igor Doncov on April 4, 2015 at 1:34 PM
Nice image. I really like the water that's flowing over the submerged rocks but less so the bluer water. The luminosity in the brown layer is very appealing. I would change that black frame to something lighter because it doesn't complement the feel of the image.
Registered on November 22, 2014, 189 Posts, 2733 Comments