for at least a mile upstream and downstream there wasn’t another rock anywhere close to this size. It makes a body wonder what moved this goliath and when.
I toyed with the crop on this one. Normally, I don’t like to crop too much, but downstream offered nothing but OOF water and upstream nothing but a stream driven dam of logs and other debris.
Is this a composite: No
Lost all the data in the storm
I nice view but I see a pretty significant blue cast. Poking around with the gray eyedropper tool gave variable results so I eyeballed it with a Curves: raised the LL points in the Green and Red channels and lowered the UR point in the Blue channel. (Why can’t I find the I/O values in the Curves dialog box? Did something change when I wasn’t looking?)
Interesting subject, Chris. I like the overall presentation but do agree with @Diane_Miller that there’s a bit of color cast. Nice scene.
I did do a color cast removal a second ago and there is some, I wouldn’t necessarily say significant but the edit does it more justice, so I won’t argue…the weird thing is that I eye dropper-ed all my significantly white areas and in every test, the blue channel was dead on at 255.
Depending upon where this was taken, it may be a glacial erratic.
Given your image description, I assume your intent was to portray the isolation of this boulder, and have it stand out as a solitary subject. If that is the case then I might consider burning the water in the bottom third of the image, so that the rock becomes brighter than the water, making it stand out more.
That sure is a big boulder and it’s prominently displayed. It looks like a pleasant enough place with probably good trout holding water. You had some harsh light here which gives bright brights and dark darks (contrasty). I would recommend shooting under better light conditions if possible.
