Lindsey Falls Wide View | May 11

I was digging through my Lindsey Creek photos tonight, and thought I'd post a nearly full-frame version, both for recon purposes for anyone thinking of going up there, but also for feedback on the image, itself. If you compare this view to the earlier, cropped version, you can see that opted to crop out the oxidized cliff area (which looks to be a recent collapse) and the red alder tops along the bottom of the scene.

Looking at it again, the oxidized area looks more interesting now, and helps pull out the leaf litter in the lower right... and I kinda like the cedar and alder tops in the lower left. So I'm warming up to the wider view..! Comments and suggestions appreciated, as always.

I'm pretty sure this is the same image I worked from for the earlier post, so image data is the same.

That's a pretty cool falls - I like this version a lot..

I too like this version better. This composition is much more appealing in my book.

Those are beautiful falls, and they are certainly the highlight of the photo. What my eye misses is a way to lead into and highlight them. The foreground elements seem sparse and don't fit well, and so the walls on either side of the slope are more dominant and compete with the falls, but are not near as appealing to me; they seem to minimize the falls. I don't know the area, but if there is anything to use for a more dominant leading foreground, I think it would make the photo even stronger.

This shot is begging for a vertical composition to isolate the falls. The shadows are a bit dark as well. (and I understand not burning the falls out...so under exposue the walls.....falls shots are so difficult with DR issues) I would reccomend a bracket with a digital blend maybe? Just put one over the other, use the selection tool to select the properly exposed falls....play with the feathering and add the selection as a layer mask...pretty easy stuff when faced with dr like this.

Roman