Berea Boulders

I think the larger view looks better on this one. Comments and ratings

are invited. I am particular interested to know your thoughts on the

composition.

Comp is very fine. you good photographefr.

Great shot, I love the color.

Great scenery with fine colors!

Very nice. Jitka www.jitkaunverdorben.estranky.cz

Walter this is an excellent image. If I may offer a suggestion, it would be to crop out the sky. It's just distracting to my eye. A minor point. Very nice to see your images again. - Sean

well Sean, I thought about that. I cropped quite a bit from the above original and I was thinking of leaving the sky out completely. Perhaps it would be better with the sky "out of the picture", so to say, but it seemed to be a little too claustrophobic when I did that. Nevertheless, I appreciate your input; thanks for the comment.

And thank you to Ivana, Jitka, Darek, Fred, and Ilya for the visits! Regards.

I like it as it is. The colors are breathtaking and I feel like sitting on that front rock.

Thanks Paula! At this spot you are sitting about 20 feet above the flowing water. Directly behind the camera about 200 yards back are a series of waterfalls (I might post an image of these later). This location is really popular for the students of the nearby university of Baldwin Wallace and has been for the last hundred years. These boulders are gigantic, well capable of serving as benches for passing the time of day. Almost every surface of these rocks are inscribed with the chisled initials, slogans, and love letters of past visitors; countless thousands of them!

If you look carefully, some of this is visible in the LARGER view on the surfaces of the foreground boulders. I was thinking of cloning this out but decided against it. Regards.

Wow, what a gorgeous place and gorgeous shot, Walter! I like the placement of the two leaves on the rock in the foreground. It helps to balance those vivid colors in the background.

What a beautiful shot! The wet surface of the rocks adds special lighting effect which makes the image even more eye-catching (Is this a shot after rain?). Great work.

 

 

Thanks Kim! Glad you like this one.

Master Feng, I thank you for the visit. This was indeed a shot taken during a light rain. I have a rain cover for the P67 (aka the Big Pup) to keep him dry during such outings. I assure you those boulders were really slippery! Regards.

Works well Walter. You've found a very good composition amongst a very complex scene.

thanks man! Your thoughts are always welcome around here. I originally shot this location with my old Graflex Crown Graphic 4x5 a few days before this shoot that you see here. Unfortunately, I had loaded ALL of my film holders backwards (Duh!); needless to say the results were not very nice. I came back to this location and made a quick shoot using my 6x7 on my way to work, trying to salvage what was left of the season. The above was the result.

I will have to try again next autumn with the 4x5. Regards.

Walter, a beautiful shot, an the crop is very good (actually improving it a bit). Didn't you use your DiDymium filter also? The colors of autumn are wonderful here...

 

Jiri

Hi Jiri! Thanks for stopping by. I love your memory! I did not use my didymium filter on this one, nor did I use a polarizer. I was indeed going to use the didymium but I decided against it. This was because it almost always imparts a magenta cast to neutral colors, such as what we have here in the water. In addition, I have found when I scan RVP 100 that I get a magenta cast from that too; I had to add about +10G during the workup the way it was. So I decided to "play it straight" on this shot. I looked through my polarizer and all it did was reduce the light level by about 2 stops and took away the sheen from the boulders (which I wanted to capture). So, no polarizer either. Regards.

Walter, this is a beautiful seasonal shot. I like the cropping and great exposure. Looks like a wonderful place to visit during any season.

Thanks, Sondra, for the kind words. Regards.

Wow! The color in this is so vivid...gotta love that film! Great crop as far as I'm concerned! Nicely done:)

Thanks Chris! Regards.

Excellent composition, beautiful autumn colours. Nice with the leaves on the rock in the foreground.

Great composition and wonderful saturation of colours. Like the maple leaf in the foreground for that extra splash of colour.

Absolute "Belter" - the 1/3 rds rule ! colour & line are superb !!! the picture leads your eye from top right, to bottom left, - STUNNING !!!

Regards, Chris Womack

 

wonderful!!!

I like it . The colors are breathtaking