Waterfall - critique please

[edouble]

Tell me what you think please!

 

[matt62485]

i like it. pretty cool with the snow. maybe a tighter crop on one side or another? im not too sure, but i like it!

 

[HikinMike]

Could you have gotten any closer? I would have shot from the bottom of the first cascade and probably composed vertical instead of horizontal.....if that makes sense.

 

[SushiWarrior]

It seems quite blurry and the snow/water is totally blown out.

 

[edouble]

i like it. pretty cool with the snow. maybe a tighter crop on one side or another? im not too sure, but i like it!

I havent cropped it at all.

Could you have gotten any closer? I would have shot from the bottom of the first cascade and probably composed vertical instead of horizontal.....if that makes sense.

Here is another picture that was taken closer

It seems quite blurry and the snow/water is totally blown out.

The original .NEF photo that I had taken has great detail! The compressed .JPG that I converted from the original .NEF and then uploaded to Photobucket has lost A LOT deal of detail.

 

[HikinMike]

Better view. I would have tried to get lower, even right by the water (if possible) to give some interesting foreground element (a rock, water etc) and composed it vertical.

 

[Joves]

I like the compositionin the second much better. Yeah photobucket will do that from what I have seen. I can tell it was overcast. Does your processing program have a good white balance converter for NEF? If it does you might try warming it up a bit to get rid of the flat light effect. Then I would play with the levels some after that. Just some suggestions you might play with to see what you can get. While I dont use them you might try Flickr as they seem to treat your photos better.

 

[jennyjen]

i would of taken a shot from the bottom and from where you were. Nice picture tho.

 

[JimKing]

You don't mention shutter speed. The angel hair look suggests a fairly low speed. I'm guessing 1/30 or less. Did you use a tripod? SushiWarrior mentioned the blown out look of the water and snow. I like to shoot waterfalls and find that I need to under expose sometimes one or two stops from the meter just because water is so bright compared to the foliage around it.

 

[edouble]

I like the compositionin the second much better. Yeah photobucket will do that from what I have seen. I can tell it was overcast. Does your processing program have a good white balance converter for NEF? If it does you might try warming it up a bit to get rid of the flat light effect. Then I would play with the levels some after that. Just some suggestions you might play with to see what you can get. While I dont use them you might try Flickr as they seem to treat your photos better.

I only have Nikon ViewNX to convert my .NEF files to .JPG. I havent experimented or read up on the features of ViewNX yet. But I will and thanks for the tips. I would love and dream about havening Photoshop though!

You don't mention shutter speed. The angel hair look suggests a fairly low speed. I'm guessing 1/30 or less. Did you use a tripod? SushiWarrior mentioned the blown out look of the water and snow. I like to shoot waterfalls and find that I need to under expose sometimes one or two stops from the meter just because water is so bright compared to the foliage around it.

Yes I used a tripod and my exposure time was 1/2 second. Next time I will bracket the photo with three different exposure levels and see what happens.

Too bad I can not accurately show you guys all of the detail in these photos! They really look great but I do know that they could be better.

 

[Heretotherephoto]

Hi I'm a big fan of waterfalls and am slowly working to photograph all of the significant waterfalls in New England. Winter has slowed this down some though. I thought the shot was pretty good. You got the shutter speed down to give that veiled look to the falls. Unfortunately the bottom left is a little blown out. Underexposing just a little may have helped. I tend to underexpose many of my waterfall photos by narrowing the aperture as I don't want to change shutter speed. I could do the same with changing the ISO I guess. I'm still learning this stuff.

I would have shot this vertically and used the stream to lead the eye in or out of the photo but that is just my artistic preference. I liked how the photo came out though and would love to travel to this one. Where is it located?

 

[edouble]

Hi I'm a big fan of waterfalls and am slowly working to photograph all of the significant waterfalls in New England. Winter has slowed this down some though. I thought the shot was pretty good. You got the shutter speed down to give that veiled look to the falls. Unfortunately the bottom left is a little blown out. Underexposing just a little may have helped. I tend to underexpose many of my waterfall photos by narrowing the aperture as I don't want to change shutter speed. I could do the same with changing the ISO I guess. I'm still learning this stuff.

I would have shot this vertically and used the stream to lead the eye in or out of the photo but that is just my artistic preference. I liked how the photo came out though and would love to travel to this one. Where is it located?

Thanks for your input. I am very much so a beginner at photography and honestly I am happy that I was able to slow the shutter speed enough to get this water effect.

This waterfall is located a couple miles from my house in White Haven, PA.

 

[matt62485]

i've always been a fan of slow shutter and waterfall/flowing water shots. i dunno why, but i like them.

this is one i took in Asheville, NC. not technically all that great, but I got the affect I was looking for and just like it for what it is.

not trying to threadjack!

 

[edouble]

not bad!

 

[HikinMike]

i've always been a fan of slow shutter and waterfall/flowing water shots. i dunno why, but i like them.

this is one i took in Asheville, NC. not technically all that great, but I got the affect I was looking for and just like it for what it is.

not trying to threadjack!

I know you didn't post that for a C&C, but I'd adjust the WB a bit . The white is a bit too blue.

Nice shot though.