enlightened-images

very beautiful.

Comments & Critiques are welcome. Thanks for looking.

(no HDR; Nikon n8008s; Fuji Velvia; split GND filter

Comments and Critiques are always welcome.

Thanks for looking.

Comments and critiques are always welcome.

Thanks for looking.

I've hung around the forums for a few years, but as part of my New

Years Resolutions, I finally subscribed and want to start sharing some

of my photos. Comments and Critiques are always welcome. Thanks for

looking.

Kristy:

Please forgive me if I came off too harsh. I'm not sure why this got under my skin the way it did. Perhaps it is because your photos are so nice. I read all the compliments, and your description, and not once anywhere, did you mention that you used a filter to create an effect. You led people via your response, or lack there of, that this was a "real" found scene, i.e. all of these elements were as there at the time you took the photo. You never indicated the water was added. This is exactly what causes people to think that something looks too good to be true, therefore it can't be true.

Why when you started receiving a flood (pun) of compliments, didn't you mention anywhere that it was flood filter? From the comments, most certainly seem to believe that this was a real "found" scene. By the way, what is a REAL flood filter? is there a FAKE flood filter we should be aware of?

Anyway, my apologies again if I was to harsh on you. The digital era has brought about a slew of new ethical concerns and considerations related to nature and landscape photography, and I guess the lack of clear disclosure on your part seemed like a slap in the face of those ethical considerations.

Perhaps we'll both take away a lesson from this.

You should have just admitted upfront that it was a digital creation, rather than make up a BS story. Now, despite any amount of nice pictures, respect for your work has gone out the proverbial window.

Come on, Guys. I know you're all smarter than this. It took me about 2seconds to deconstruct this. As soon as I saw the vertical, I prettymuch knew 98% it was an effect filter. Then when I saw the horiz.version in the portfolio, I was about 1000% certain it was fake. Lookat the water level at where the diagonal reflection in the rock bandoccurs in the Horiz. In the vertical - the same relection line is waybelow where it is in the Horiz. So how'd the water level drop so fast,and not leave any sign of WET ROCK???? Even if the water was reallythere, from wind, kids tossing rocks, people touching, or evenevaporation, you would see some line of wet rock where water meets thewall. Ain't there. Foto is fake.

Further proof can be had looking at the sunlit dust cloud in the light beam. They are exactly the same, and in order for that to happen, all of the dust particles would have needed to remain suspended in time and space, while either recomposing or waiting for the water level to change.

You're lying about the origin of this photo just makes it worse for all of us other photographers that work hard to capture REAL moments of natural beauty.

An example of real water against sandstone.