5DII, 100-400 @300
f/11, 1s, ISO50
Minimal burning of the darks, hue/sat to push the greens a little bit yellow
I like the processing. It is certainly not overdone.
This does not look overdone at all to me. It looks quite nice, actually. I think you could get away with popping the reds a touch more, but looks quite fine as presented.
Craig,
This turned out rather nicely and I don’t think the processing is overdone. I could see adding a touch more saturation, but that is just a personal taste and not a critique.
This is fantastic, the combination of vertical and horizontal lines is surprisingly effective. I would crop in slightly on the left side to center the 6/7 main trunks in the frame.
I agree that the composition is interesting with the horizontals and verticals involved. It would like to have seen how this looks before the bottom was darkened.
Great photo. I don’t think it is overdone. In fact, I would try to make the top part seem sharper: either try more sharpening, or add clarity or texture in Photoshop.
Craig,
Love what you’ve seen and captured here; the mix between the reflection of color and vertical trunks with the horizontal flow works beautifully.
Guess I’m in the minority here, but I think the greens, the limey ones are a little too saturated - but then color/sat is most certainly a subjective and personal choice. Processing is NOT over the top. I would agree with Harley I think it was in bumping the reds to match the other sat levels.
I realize the streaks are motion and are blurry by nature, but for me at least the focus point and DOF are somewhat important here. I see the focus point and most sharp is the area about 1/4 down from the top. I’m kinda wishing things were more in focus near the bottom; but I’m guessing that would have required a stack, which would be problematic here. Anyway, not a biggie.
Love the concept and vision.
Lon
Craig, this is a fine reflection view. I like the mix of “flow streaks” in the stream and the strong trunks and vertical strips of color in the reflection. Your 1s exposure time should have blurred the stream motion well. That says to me that the sharper area, not quite 1/4 down from the top was slower moving water. Reflections like this are often very limited in dynamic range in raw and it’s up to you how much or how little extra saturation you allow as you expand the histogram. To my eyes your choice here looks very reasonable and realistic.
@Harley_Goldman, @Ed_Lowe I will look at playing with the red saturation a bit.
@Michael_McGee, I do have some other frames that are zoomed in a bit more on those main trunks as you mention. I’ll work one of those up and compare.
@Igor_Doncov, this is what the image looked like straight out of the camera.
@Lon_Overacker I would have like it all in focus too, but I’m OK with the out of focus here. I do wonder if a stack would have worked, since all of the foam streaks are moving parallel to the in-focus area? Something to try another time.
@Mark_Seaver the upper section does include slower moving water. I didn’t notice that until I was looking at the image on the screen after I took it.
I’m a little late to comment on this one, but I really like this Craig! The spacing of the trees is perfect and I like the contrasting colors at the top of the frame. The lines from the motion in the water add impact as well. Nicely done!
