framed waterfall

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Velvia, f22 and be there. Tripod : Bogen 3036 with ball head.

Scanned with Nikon LS-2000.

Keith

-- Keith Clark (ClarkPhotography@spiritone.com), August 25, 1999

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Nicely framed and very good greens in the image. But the most important part of the image (the waterfall) is completely blown out without any detail. I ahve my monitor calibrated, so I'm sure that isn't the reason.

-- Bhaskar Thiagarajan (bhaskart@hotmail.com), August 25, 1999.

Is this location repeatable? I agree that the waterfall is overexposed but in my opinion so is the folage. To get the detail in the framing trees this had to be.... I would suggest exposing for the folage left of the waterfall. Even use a polarizer or a strong warming filter to bring out the colors more. Then fill flash the trees. Bracket using the flash set on 0, -1/2, -1, -1 1/2, and -2. -2 would be my choice. The key is to hold the flash high over the camera so it doesn't look filled. BTW this is a nice shot as is...

Cheers

-- Bill Wyman (Bill.Wyman@utas.edu.au), August 25, 1999.


Kieth, overall this is a very nice image, well composed and sharp, but I have to agree that the waterfall lacks detail, unfortunate though because the shadow areas are well exposed. I would let the shadows go a little darker, perhaps use a slightly faster shutter speed and get more "flow" in the water. This would be a fantastic location to record "Seasons" if you have access to it year-round. Thanks for sharing, Donna.

-- Donna P. Bollenbach (cassidy@icubed.net), August 25, 1999.

I like the imgage also, except for the waterfall, the cottoncandy effect of done by everyone and shows no detail, I have found that a s/s of 1/60 works very well for moving water, I never go below that if the light will let me. Have you noticed that the waterfall looks like a ghost image. Pat

-- pat j. krentz (krentz@cci-29palms.com), August 27, 1999.

I'm wondering if some fill flash on the foreground trees would have helped. As it is the image has a greenish cast that doesn't look quite right to me.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), August 29, 1999.


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