River of Gold

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Critique Style Requested: Initial Reaction

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What are your initial thoughts of this scene? Does the composition and color balance work well? And how does it make you feel upon initially seeing it?

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Image Description

I’m currently making my way south through central Texas. This time of the year can be challenging since most of the trees are dead, except for the Junipers.

I stopped at a state park for a couple of days which featured a small waterfall. During the daytime it’s not great for photography, but once the sun set, it strikes the waterfall and rocks underneath, changing the water into a river of gold.

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Here’s a cropped pano version of the same scene.

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My initial reaction is along the lines of playful color splashing. I like your shutter speed, especially those arches the drops are making on the left edge.

I’m conflicted about how much the top of the image adds, and could see an alternative crop to a 3:2 that removes part of it.

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I too was debating about cropping the top but it just didn’t quite work by cropping in to a 3:2. The original file is a 3:2 btw, but felt like the scene worked better as a 4:3. I did try cropping it to 2:1 pano which removes the brush at the top of the frame.

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