Critique Style Requested: Standard
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Description
While searching the web for places to visit on a day trip, I came across Big Timber Creek Falls. The hike is short, but the drive is long. As you can see here, the falls is quite impressive as it races through a slot in the rocks.
Specific Feedback
I chose a slow shutter to smooth the water, while retaining it’s larger scale textures. Did that work?
Technical Details
R5, 24-105 @ 28, 1/8 s, f/10, iso 100, tripod and 4 stop ND filter. This is a 1 and 1/2 shot vertical merge to limit how much sky is showing while showing the bottom part of the falls.
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That is impressive! Your long shutter speed works here because the smoothed-out water is a nice contrast to the busy land. Nice composition, too. I really get a sense of the water rushing out at me, with the way the stream becomes progressively larger from background to foreground.
Now that’s a fine cascade and waterfall! The separation between the smooth water and surrounding craggy rock definitely works. The color balance and saturation look good, but you might consider punching up the yellows just a bit to give the trees more pop.
I am wondering if you can pull any more detail out of the brightest areas of the water, especially in the tallest fall. Also, there is a tree branch intruding on the topmost cascade that catches my eye.
You did a good job on this!
-P
Nice image Mark. But I have a couple small critiques that are just mho of course. I think the falls would be better with a shorter SS to give a little more texture. The histogram shows clipping. Also, I feel the composition feels a little tight/cut off on the left.
Mark,
I think you did a great job with the shutter speed to render the water silky and overall the composition is well crafted. If you could pull more texture and detail out of the water in the final drop of the falls that would add so much. My other observation is that the light, no fault of yours at all, is quite flat and it is rendering the details on the land strangely, it almost flattens it with no sense of depth. This is most evident for me on the right just above the last water drop, that tree there seems lost in the land behind it and is so well camouflaged. I don’t know if there is anyway to remedy that.
