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Description
This was meant for the weekly challenge, but I can’t find how to get it there. So: 2 easy miles of snowshoeing leads to a waterfall that freezes very nicely during cold spells. The ice takes on very different forms/personalities depending on the year, the recent weather, etc.
Specific Feedback
any feedback is good
Technical Details
ISO 250 f/11. 1/250 sec hand held.
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I like a lot the patterns as well as the structure and texture of this image, you have made a good choice when deciding upon what parts of the fall to be inlcuded in the image. The blue color convey the cold very well.
One idea could be to flip the image horisontally for the ice to flow from left to right downwards. However, then the white upper corner with less texture may become to dominant.
There is not much that could be improved here IMO, but I would have tried to have a little bit thicker white horizontal strip of ice included in the image in the LLC.
This might make a pretty good black and white image due to a richness of tonality. There are parts of this image with good compositions as well. I like this but I suspect that the tonal ranges could be further exagerated. I might also shift the color tint more toward navy blue instead of cyan blue. A combination of the two would be interesting as well if possible.
Very nice texture and structure. If your vision is to hand tingling cold then I think the blue cast works very well. I quite like it. The left side of the image has more blue because it’s darker than the right side and I like that this is almost a 50/50 split view of the falls. The icicles almost look like jellyfish with their round bulbous heads and long stretching tentacles. In that regard, this looks alive. The composition is pretty good and I see why you selected this to shoot. There are two thing that pull my eye just a little bit. The very dark almost black section right on the edge of the left side of the image. You could crop that out or selectively dodge it. Also, on the very right edge of the image is a slightly darker section of the ice that could also be dodged. This is a quick rework:
Hi Delton. I am dazzled by the many shapes and structures in this frozen waterfall. Like many of my photos, my eye wanted to wander a bit too much, particularly to the dark area on the right, and then leftward to the intricate details. I wondered if a center crop might be a bit more cohesive, and it seems to take advantage of the strong diagonal.
Is this the Franklin Falls on Denny Creek?
Hi, @delton. I was smitten with the color version but the black and white absolutely sings! The textures and shapes somehow come alive even more than they do in the color version, which itself is already very monochromatic. This is exceptional. My only thought might be to burn down the URH corner a bit. I considered maybe a crop but that would lose too much of the interesting ice.
Bret: Thanks for the ideas. At first I tried B&W and I feared it suggested something like Middle Earth from Tolkien. But then I brightened it up. Better. See what you think. And put some texture in the upper right corner.
