This is as close as I could get to the original image with some minor tweaking. I hope you get the idea.

-- Jim Harrison (hphoto@earthlink.net), January 27, 1999

Answers

Jim, I like this much better as a horizontal. The fingers of water then flow into the lower right corner. Love the exposure.

-- Micheal F. Kelly (Kellys@alaska.net), January 28, 1999.

Thanks for your repsonse, Michael.

I wish I could have managed a horizontal version of this as well. As it was, there were too many undesireable elements which I wouldn't be albe to exclude if I turned the camera that way. I took what I could get.

-- Jim Harrison (hphoto@earthlink.net), January 28, 1999.

The color is wonderful but my mind has trouble with water "falling to the left". I to find it easier to relate to in the horizontal. What was your exposure in relation to your meter and how did you meter it?

Cheers

-- Bill Wyman (Bill.Wyman@utas.edu.au), January 28, 1999.

Michael, you were suggesting that THIS image should be horizontal. My apologies. Bill, thank you for helping me to understand. This is how the image looked when I took it (from the perspective I had.) I guess I've always looked at it as an abstract since that is what attracted me to the shot in the first place. Flipped horizontal, it looks downright like a waterfall.

For the exposure, I spot-metered off of the reflective surface of the water where I thought it was medium toned and shot at that value. The color is a combination of using Velvia, the black rocks in the stream (GSMNP by the way), and the fact that it was almost dark.

Thanks again to you both.

-- Jim (hphoto@eathlink.net), January 28, 1999.

Sorry Jim, this is to dark and abstract for my tastes. I think abstraction improves some images, but for me there is a definite point that once you pass, the image degrades exponentially. In this forum, Bahman manages to walk that fine line successfully most of the time.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), January 28, 1999.