raghuveermakala

Stunning imagery! Looks like there was amazing light and you definitely made the most of it. Congratulations!

Very nice colors and good composition. The silky flow of the retreating wave is very well captured. 

Awesome composition and light! The contrasting trees look beautiful.

The image looks slightly tilted towards the right, though.

Best Regards!

Thanks for the kind comment, Ferdinando!

Welcome to Photo.net David! 

You have nicely captured the rainbow at Yosemite falls. The bare tree, rainbow, waterfall and blue sky all compose nicely. The dark boulders at the right side bottom of the image detract the beauty of the image a bit though. You could improve this with a grad ND filter or by combining exposures at different settings to get a HDR image. 

Also, try cropping away the top one-tenth and right one-eighth of the image to see if it improves the composition.

Best regards and keep shooting!

Surreal image! Composed very well. The transition of colors from the left to the right of the image is exquisite. I don't know if it's my monitor but the rocks seem to have a little too much cyan in them. 

Nice abstract image with a good title to go along with it! Well done!

Amazing shot! Very nicely composed!

Splendid shot of a sublime landscape! If I were to nitpick, the green and cyan seem a little bit over saturated.

Congratulations!

Yes, you're right! It's a two-shot HDR.

The lighting conditions were just perfect and the clouds parted just in time, to pull this off. I tried witnessing the "firefall" again this year and surprisingly the conditions were different, with the water lighting up as if lava was flowing down the cliff face. Although, it was astonishing to see, I couldn't beat this shot. Even the tree grew a little taller making framing a little challenging. Take a look here: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12709844 

Thanks for the feedback! Didn't think about rotating the picture, but I realize it'd be appealing that way too...

Thanks Florin & Andreas!

Nice composition and good colors, the reddish hues at the bottom of the image nicely complement the blues and whites of the sky. The shapes and textures convey an abstract feeling.

Congrats on a "remarkable" shot!

Sunil and Michael,

Thanks for the kind comments.

Hi Indraneel,

Here, I made 3 exposures spaced -1 1/3, 0 and +1 1/3. Typically, I combine 3exposures ranging from anything between -2 to 2 or -1 to 1 in Photomatix and then use layer masks in PS on the generated tif image. All HDR s/w take some getting used to, as there are quite a few knobs. With some practice you can get great results. No worries on the questions. I learnt quite a bit from the forums on P-N and am only glad to help.

Regards,

Raghuveer

Shirahige (aka White-beard) falls flowing into the blue-Biei river. The blue

color is the result of underground alumina deposits bubbling into the river. Critique/ comments requested. Thanks!

Thanks Indraneel!

The Blue-Mesa is the crown jewel in Petrified Forest National Park and it gets great light at sunset. The catch however, is the park is gated and has limited visiting hours making it difficult to catch the best light on the formations. I made this just before sunset in winter when, you can sort-of catch the rays of the setting-sun just at closing time.

Thanks for the kind comments.

I always shoot with a polarizer to get the best skies and hues at dusk/dawn. In this case, I had great early light on the rocks, but when I metered the sky, rocks and the foreground there was large contrast difference all across the scene. So, I had to use a ND grad filter. Since, there wasn't a clearly defined and distinct boundary between light and dark areas I choose to use a soft-stop ND grad. All I had was a 2f-stop soft-step filter and even then, it wasn't enough to satisfactorily capture this high contrast scene. So, I bracketed my shots and later combined 3 images to get a naturally looking HDR image, taking care not to overdo the HDR effect.

Regards,

Raghuveer

All, Thanks for the kind comments!

Burak,

The contrast difference was too huge across the different parts of the scene for a long exposure. I did take some where the water is silky smooth but the sky was washed out. I had to resort to HDR blending, but even then the fast moving clouds made the blending a bit cumbersome. In the end, I picked two frames with slightly different exposures and blended them in.

All- Thanks for the comments, Appreciate it!
I'm sorry I couldn't respond earlier due to some weird "HTTP 408/409 Server Busy" issues that didn't let me leave a comment here.
As regards the original scene: There wasn't much blue in the sky; it was lots of grey + the "bubble-like" clouds and not  much shadows. The color versions are quite dull. However, I thought the sky was too good to pass up. That's why I blended 3 exposure into a HDR image and sharpened to bring out the details in the clouds.