Yellowstone Fairy Falls

This is a pretty high waterfall at 197 feet. The water falls a good ways down the cliff before hitting the rock face, which I thought was the more interesting part of the falls. I've got another shot of the entire falls as well.

Canon XTi, 35mm, f22 1/2 sec

Due to the height of the waterfall it was probably challenging to get it all in the frame. You've done nicely at that. I like your shutter speed choice too giving the falls some blur. I'm not sure if you were able to try other comps, but the bland cliff face on the top right hinders what could have been a stronger image though.

Richard, I agree with Joshua. Perhaps some darkening of that rock wall would help. I like a lot of what you did here but my eye went to the line created by the water from the waterfall entering the pond below. It is a razor-thin line and perfectly straight. (We don't see a lot of "straight" in nature.) The line, for me, creates the illusion of two images combined. In addition, the foreground is considerably brighter than the water, again drawing attention from the main subject. Prehaps you could try a crop that eliminates the pond and the foreground.

Nice shot. I think if you just decrease the brightness in that cliff so the falls will dominate more, it will be just fine.

Thanks Joshua, Rod and Morris. I took your advise and edited the falls shot. I think it is definitely an improvement.

Richard, Good effort. I think you really helped it. Cropping the foreground and darkening that upper right hand rock really improved the shot. As I later thought about your photo, it came to me that there is little sense of the waterfall water entering the pond water. You got low to shoot up at the falls and eliminated "the splash." I'm not sure what the heck you do about that. It was a tough shot and you did a good job with it.

I agree with Rod. I believe the repost is an improvement, the darkened URC is less of a distraction and I like the cropped foreground.