Waitangi Falls Revisited

Light was mostly not good but suddenly the sun broke through for just

a minute and caught the tree on the right. Used HDR to capture the

shadows properly.

 

Comments please.

I think you have to refine your HDR technique (or more precise: the tone-mapping), this and a few other photos I've seen exhibit the 'usual' HDR flaws: colors too saturated and (too) noticeable halos, in this photo the blue part of the sky to the left of the tree. Apart from that this seems to be oversharpened a bit. I still think this could be a nice photo, but you have to redo the tone-mapping and postprocessing IMHO.

Very beautiful in many ways--the sky, the sunlight on the leaves and tree... But it has the HDR problem (I get it too) of low midtone contrast. Also, In spite of the HDR, the lower part of the falls is blown completely to white. Very troublesome at the 'Larger' size.

I've reprocessed the image to take the comments onboard.

 

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7997852

 

Please check it out before critiquing...thanks...

Bob, I think you've got an exceptional image here. Compositionally the light in the trees, the water moving through the image out to the horizon and top it off with a great sky. All and all a very cool comp. Yes Theo and Les summed it up pretty well with the halos, sharpening, highlights, but don't despair, this is a beautiful scene!