Re: Your Best Photograph from the Previous Month - Critique and Discussion Encouraged
Your Best Photograph from the Previous Month - Critique and Discussion Encouraged
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Corran
This is my favorite of all the options proposed so far. I think this is a time for “natural be damned” in terms of the sky. I would allow a tiny bit more “glow” just behind the dark rock that splits the waterfall to give it a bit more dimension but I prefer this approach.
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Re: Your Best Photograph from the Previous Month - Critique and Discussion Encouraged
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Originally Posted by
Corran
Cropped slightly per your previous post for visual reference:
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-43GO01zhC...allskycrop.jpg
A bit awkward to me, crowding the top of the falls. I will have to look at my print tonight to see where I cropped it exactly, but I gave it a bit of sky to breath. I like the idea of the sky being the "entry point" of the waterfall. Another thought would be to try burning in the sky to get it darker, but it doesn't look as natural?
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0UFzs36PT...allskyburn.jpg
Just some of my thoughts.
It is hard to shoot waterfalls. I have some digital waterfalls, one in IR of Bridalveil Falls in Yosemite that came out really well. Everything about this is good. The details, focus, sharpness, contrast, etc. Just the right amount of motion blur on the waterfall as well.
Re: Your Best Photograph from the Previous Month - Critique and Discussion Encouraged
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Ken Lee
Ken I like this crop, the only problem is it removes an area of high interest for me—that is—the pool at the bottom.
Re: Your Best Photograph from the Previous Month - Critique and Discussion Encouraged
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scheinfluger_77
Ken I like this crop, the only problem is it removes an area of high interest for me—that is—the pool at the bottom.
You're right :)
On the other hand, sometimes we have to decide what are the principal subjects of the photo and how many we can render at the same time effectively and coherently.
Re: Your Best Photograph from the Previous Month - Critique and Discussion Encouraged
One compositional tool that I am a fan off is "anchor points" in the corners. I am fairly certain I have read about this technique somewhere but I don't know if that's the proper name for it.
A discussion point - should we strive to have one singular point of interest, with everything else in frame being subservient to it, or should we try to include multiple interest points that play off each other and allows the eye to wander and not immediately get drawn to the main subject?
Note I don't think there is a correct answer here.
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Re: Your Best Photograph from the Previous Month - Critique and Discussion Encouraged
For me it is all tied together with light...that is the one subject for most of my work. Although I love getting the viewers' feet wet...LOL!
Re: Your Best Photograph from the Previous Month - Critique and Discussion Encouraged
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Originally Posted by
Corran
One compositional tool that I am a fan off is "anchor points" in the corners. I am fairly certain I have read about this technique somewhere but I don't know if that's the proper name for it.
A discussion point - should we strive to have one singular point of interest, with everything else in frame being subservient to it, or should we try to include multiple interest points that play off each other and allows the eye to wander and not immediately get drawn to the main subject?
Note I don't think there is a correct answer here.
I agree. If there were answers to these questions, we'd have gotten bored a long time ago :rolleyes:
It's often the interplay and harmonies of several subjects which makes a photo enjoyable to the eye. That's why we have to decide what are the principal subjects of the photo and how many we can render before an elegant arrangement becomes... cluttered.
That's one of the joys of doing a harmonious "near-far" composition: when it works, we get several views at the same time, blended together.
Re: Your Best Photograph from the Previous Month - Critique and Discussion Encouraged
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Vaughn
For me it is all tied together with light...that is the one subject for most of my work. Although I love getting the viewers' feet wet...LOL!
That pier shot is the cat's pajamas!
I'd put that on my wall...
if I had any room on my wall.
Re: Your Best Photograph from the Previous Month - Critique and Discussion Encouraged
Thanks...don't even know if I have a good copy of it anymore, and it would take some digging to find the 4x5 negative even if I still silver printed. During the exposure I ran back and forth on the dock to get it to move...felt too static otherwise. I metered a 2-minute exposure, but the light was dropping fast, so I extended it to around 8 minutes.