Chattahoochee Kayaker

Re edited...thoughts?

BEAUTIFUL! I love the color, the clarity, the erie, peaceful feeling, the "monster" looming under the water in the foreground. Very nice! 7/7

Adam, this is gorgeous.

Beautiful.

enjoyed your photo's ! ~ GT

thanks y'all! AP

What is the cause of the lighting from the bottom? Very cool capture. T

The light coming from the bottom of the image is from the street lights on the bridge I was on. A longer exposure allowed me to also capture movement in the water as well. AP

best!!!

7/7

Nice work Adam.

What a great effect!

Adam,

I cross the Chattahoochee everyday several times. You have forever altered the perception I have of this friendly little river. It looks positively dangerous here!

I wonder if you have attempted capturing the fog/mist that settles on the river some evenings...

 

Great work!

sridhar

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A tad crooked, yet surreal. Good job!

"A longer exposure allowed me to also capture movement in the water as well. AP"

 

How long was the exposure ? Just wondering then why is the kayaker so sharp ?

Cool (old guy response )!

 

An actual original image by somebody who's got his technical act together! Pretty rare combination.

 

In the portfolio I especially like the "Mud Sander."

 

Djon

Dhiren, I think there is a bit of PS involved here. The boat looks placed in IMO. Is it Adam?

Outstanding shot ! Like the color gradient in the water !!! Wish to have that kind of location in canada ;) COngrats 7/7

Looks very saturated and I'm skeptical that it reflects reality. Please forgive if this is the way the river water actually appeared on that day... haven't seen anything like it before. If it can truly reflect blue like that... wow! :)

Okay, after looking at the photograph for awhile now I feel, things don't look right to me. Kayak is out of proportion here, reflection looks unreal, the glow at the horizon doesn't appear in the reflection. I just don't know how to put/say this, but it would be a good idea if the photographer comes in front and explains the process.

Hmmmm...certainly has nice colors. And the composition is good. I'm not sure why the background is blue and the foreground is red. The kayak/kayaker looks a little dark on my monitor. I'm not sure of the purpose of the underwater structure in the composition. The wake of the boat looks a little funny-- dare I say-- unnatural? Curious...

Please don't take this wrong, I'm not trying to be arrogant, but I was looking at the reflection of the treeline in the water on the right side and comparing it to the actual treeline, and they don't appear to match. Is that correct?

Look, all in all a very nice composition and the colors are extraorinary. But let;s not delude ourselves. If this was a long exposure as Adam suggests, the water would NOT show as much movement and would in fact flatten out rather quickly. Remember, a waterfall show the frothy movement because the water is continually falling from the fall above.

 

The Kayak would be very blurred, it is not that sharp, but is not blurred to the point where it shows movement.

 

I don;t see the tree reflections as a major issue, but the fact remains this is a digitally manipulated image. No question about that. I am not saything this is bad, nor is it good, let;s just not delude our selves into thinking that this image is not based in truth.

Not getting too much into the manipulated/not-manipulated, but I think maybe the answer to the reflections not matching is:

 

words words words... ummm look at the attached pic, it's probably easier than me trying to explain what I mean..?

 

sorry about the crude artwork! :)