Originally Posted by
Brian Ellis
I agree with you that the comment made in that way was rude and uncalled for. However, if you can get past the rudeness there actually is a valid point in there, i.e. the highlights in your photographs are blown out, at least they look that way on my monitor. Assuming the monitor and your prints look about the same, part of the problem is that most of your photographs were made in very bright, contrasty light. It's difficult, often impossible, to make technically good color waterfall photographs in that kind of light because the contrast range is too great for the film to handle. Black and white photographers can sometimes get away with it by exposing for the shadows and reducing development time to bring down the highlights but that's more problematical with color film. The other possible problem is that you're just over-exposing in general by about a stop because there are a couple photographs that don't appear to have been made in sunlight yet the highlights in those are blown out too.
Hope this helps. You have some very nice compositions so you obviously have a good eye, it's just a matter of maybe getting your technique down a little better or choosing another time of day to photograph waterfalls.