Upper Tillman Falls

Thanks for the feedback. Positive is good-negative better.

Positive: perfect diagonal composition to emphasise the feeling of flowing; lovely scene.

 

Negative: the colours look rather exaggerated (maybe this is an intentional "fairytale" effect); the fluffy water effect is rather a cliche.

 

Best wishes, Jonathan

Nicely framed. Long time exposures make colours look more saturated. Having water "smudged" might be considered cliche, but what else to do with it? To stop its action and see the bubbles would look bad. Actually, I like the way the smudged water nicely contrasts the rest of the scene, and can be easily followed (yes, nicely diagonally) all the way back. I'm not sure that the creek's surrounding is interesting enough, though - it looks quite boring. Speaking about cliches, what is there that hasn't been photographed thousands of times before? Unless one takes a vacation and goes to some unique wilderness...

 

Thanks for the comments. The colors are a bit "out there." I processed this using the Photoshop HDR function using 3 bracketed shots. When I was adjusting the gamma these colors just popped out. I usually tend towards dark and muted images but was really taken with the "fairy tale" quality here so I left it. Waterfalls in general are cliche'd but, alas, I like them. Thanks again.

I didn't mean the waterfall subject was cliche, just the specific long-exposure appearance of moving water making it look like stage-mist. It doesn't look like that in reality and while the first few times you see it in a photo it's quite an interesting special effect I think the novelty value has worn off. So a little movement blur looks real and emphasises the flow of the water but the fluffy "smoke" look is overdoing it IMHO.

 

Best wishes, Jonathan

Jonathan, Thanks for the follow-up. I don't disagree with you. I have seen a few beautiful photos where the water is "frozen." Usually closeups of the eddies and flows of the stream with a view of the stream bed. I may have gotten a little carried away here, but it is a function of the HDR processing used to put together the photo. It was a very cloudy day and I had to stop down to get the necessary depth of field. I guess I could have upped the sensor e.i. but I didn't want the image degradation that seems to follow that route. Besides, I lugged that darn tripod all over hell to get photos, I wanted to take advantage of it. :-)

 

Thanks again, Peter