Ozone Falls....6 pictures....

[Tennessee Landscape]

I passed this a few days ago and didn't have the right lens on my camera.....came back with my kit lens, and took several shots from the top and bottom.....hope you enjoy....C & C please

1. anyone know why I have a blue halo around the water?

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4. Hand held this.......had to zoom in to see the camera shake

5. YES, I was feeling a bit brave here.........

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[SCHNOOBS]

white balence is too high, reason for the blue halo

 

[brianne5499]

HA! I live in Crossville!! That's just a few miles from Ozone Falls.

 

[JDS]

I've been there as well - a few times actually. My wife (Then girlfriend) used to live 5 minutes from there. It's where I fell in love with shooting waterfalls. I'm wanting to go back there this Spring when everything turns green to try to get some nicer shots.

Of the times I've been there, I've never seen the water level up that high - hopefully it will stay up and I can get some killer shots of the waterfall itself. I might need to invest in an ND filter before I go though...

Oh, before I forget - nice shots!

 

[Lyncca]

Did you up the contrast a lot in PP? The water looks blown out and over sharpened to me....

 

[Tennessee Landscape]

No, all I did was boost the color a bit.....I shot using the Cloudy WB setting.....I could never get a good balance of exposure between the water and the rocks. exposing the rocks meant overexposing the water....but exposing the water meant totally losing the rocks

 

[Tennessee Landscape]

white balence is too high, reason for the blue halo

okay thanks....

 

[Lyncca]

Oh well, they are still really pretty shots -- I can't say I would do any better! Maybe you could try HDR to handle the varying contrasts...

 

[Tennessee Landscape]

Oh well, they are still really pretty shots -- I can't say I would do any better! Maybe you could try HDR to handle the varying contrasts...

I'm only using the software that came with my camera, I don't think it will do HDR......although, right now I'm working at getting good with the camera first.....

 

[mstephens]

good shots you have here. like was said earlier i think its the white balance that you have a halo. good shots though!!!

 

[BoblyBill]

Do you have any image programs that will allow you to select a part of an image and edit just that and/or copy that part to another picture, cause if you did I would suggest taking a picture exposed for the water and another for the rocks then copy the copy the picture with the water onto the picture with the rocks. Also can you shoot in RAW if that was the case you might be able to bring down the levels of the water so that it isn't overexposed. Just some thoughts but either way I still enjoyed the pictures.

 

[BoblyBill]

I just saw that you have a D80 so you can shoot RAW.

 

[Tennessee Landscape]

Do you have any image programs that will allow you to select a part of an image and edit just that and/or copy that part to another picture, cause if you did I would suggest taking a picture exposed for the water and another for the rocks then copy the copy the picture with the water onto the picture with the rocks. Also can you shoot in RAW if that was the case you might be able to bring down the levels of the water so that it isn't overexposed. Just some thoughts but either way I still enjoyed the pictures.

Haven't tried raw yet, and no I don't have good PP software yet, just the freebie stuff that came with the camera. still new to this, so I'm working good composition and exposure because everthing I read says that you can't fix bad composition or bad exposure. once I feel like I have a good handle on that I try to tackle Photoshop of something of the sort......

 

[BoblyBill]

That's a great plan and some good advice.