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Cougar Creek

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Posted by Darren White on July 15, 2007 at 3:45 PM
Cougar Creek
Taken last year up near Mount St.Helens. I am running out of new stuff so I have started working images from the past with CS3....



D70
200 ISO
F/22
1/2 sec
manual mode

Thanks for looking and leaving a comment or critique...

Darren
Posted by Marc Adamus on July 15, 2007 at 4:24 PM
Nice feel to the composition, Darren. Processing looks pretty accurate.
Posted by Tom Kloster on July 15, 2007 at 6:27 PM
Nice color and composition on the stream, Darren. For me, the top part of the image pulls away from the main focus on the stream, as do the sky bleeds through the foliage. You might consider simply cropping the top 1/3 (or even half) off to shift the focus down to the stream and the trees and foliage on the far bank. The stream portion of this exposure is really nice.

Tom
Posted by Curtis Knight on July 16, 2007 at 9:42 AM
I like the comp, but for some reason it's just not speaking to me the way your more recent work does. I tried browser cropping it like Tom suggested and that definitely does help.
Posted by michael medina on July 16, 2007 at 1:19 PM
i agree, it's quite nice square and i don't usually like square. with it square, the trees make a nice fan. the exposure and color of the water is very nice. although on one of my monitors it's a wee bit warm
Posted by Darren White on July 16, 2007 at 1:30 PM
Thanks guys...this was taken last year in late spring.

I am kind of just messing around with what I got last year.....

new stuff should be coming soon......found a great little creek today!
Posted by Brian Hudspeth on July 16, 2007 at 7:10 PM
Very nice Darren, great details and textures.