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Nice shot. I like the sweep of the road as well as the atmosphere. I might have dodged the sheep just a bit, (but that could be my monitor...I'm on my laptop)

While B&W is inherently more abstract than color, I like the subtlty of the color in this abstraction. Nice job.

Beautiful color, tack sharp, nice composition.

Beautiful image. I think I might have toned down some of the highlights in the upper part of the photo. They draw my eye away from the center.

I like the saturation the way it is. I'm not sure believability is the goal here, rather a mood that is facilitated by the unrealistic saturation. Without this manipulation it would not have the impact. My one negative is the light area behind the tree on the right and the light halo around the tree on the left, they are inconsistent with the rest of the photo. I think you could have easily darkened both of these areas with little or no affect on the trees, they're silhouettes. Nice job.

Beautiful colors. But I think you have fallen into the same trap I do, too much exposure time. the water looks too "fluffy". There is a middle ground that shows movement without obliterating all details. Plus shorter exposure will help get rid of the hot spot at eht base of the falls. Nonetheless, nice job!

Love the mood.

Beautiful colors, I love the green moss. Great the way the flow leads right into the photo foreground.

Beautiful "painterly" quality. You got just the right exposure on the falls long enough to show motion and short enough so the water does not become "fluff".

Beautiful muted colors.

Wonderful colors. I always find it a challenge to deal with the sun and shade at "high noon" you've handled it beautifully. HDR?

Nice job. I stood in exactly the spot you shot this from and didn't see it. Maybe because it was a cloudy day and the stream had no color (that my excuse and I'm sticking to it!) I tried the other direction under the little bridge but got little or nothing. When you turned around you saw....

Looks like Tillmans Ravine...I think I must have missed you by a few feet. I've Posted two from the Ravine, one from Dingman's Falls and one from below Fulmer Falls. Nice job here. I love the moss.

Nice shot. I love stream shots. I think I might leave out the background trees that are such an exposure problem. Or, if you feel you need them for context, darken them so that they do not draw the eye as much. I think I would do a little dodging, or locally increase the contrast, of the cascade to get at least some of it up to white. nice job.

Interesting use of the vertical components to separate the individuals. I like it!

I like the photo, nice perspective. However I like Sondra's Post processing better, in fact I may have lightened the rocks a bit more.

Thanks for comments. Positive is good, negative better.

Great perspective. I like the view of the stream bottom.

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

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.

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

Beautiful but I like the vertical presentation better. This one doesn't seem to draw you into the photo like the first version. That said, not bad coming in second to a 7/7.

I tried to respond to Chris' comments by cloning a portion of one of the base HDR shots of the trees. I also upped the contrast in the surrounding rocks. Think its better?

Thanks for the comment Chris. This is an HDR composite of three bracketed shots. I didn't have the dynamic range to see the moss or detail in the rocks, especially in the lower right. Using the HDR I could get the desired details, the trade off was the detail in the trees. There was a breeze and when the shots were combined the leaves appear blurred. Actually in a full blowup they are quite sharp but do have a little "ghosting" because of the movement. Maybe I'll try this again and clone in the trees from one of the stable images.

Eddie, I looked through your portfolio and was really impressed. But this one just doesn't do it for me. I find the blurred posts and trees really distracting. Granted I may be missing the point here, but I think I would have stopped down and focused a little further down the line of posts trying to include them and the trees.