Cascading Water

Posted by DC on Sun Nov 16, 2003 9:56 am

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EOS3, 28-70 2.8, Provia 100F

Hey guys,

Another of my water shots that I'd appreciate some input on.

Any and all comments appreciated.

Dave
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by robert hasty on Sun Nov 16, 2003 10:11 am

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Hi Dave, i love water images as i take many myself. This is nice but could be better imo. You have alot of black spots that are showing no detail. The way to avoid this i believe is to spot meter something nuetral like one of the fg rocks, open up 1 stop and fire away. This will help bring out more detail in those places and also will help with blowing out any highlights in the water. Atleast this is what ive been taught when using film.

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by DC on Sun Nov 16, 2003 12:38 pm

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Thanks for the advice Robert, just what I was looking for

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by Ken Cravillion on Sun Nov 16, 2003 5:43 pm

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Nice comp. I don't mind the dark areas but the light areas are a bit hot.

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by Anders on Sun Nov 16, 2003 6:38 pm

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Very nice! I don't mind the dark areas too much here... The yellows at the top are great.

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by LindaY on Sun Nov 16, 2003 8:41 pm

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Beautiful composition with a definite foreground, background and middle plane. I really love the warm colors in the background because the contrast with the dark rocks and white water in the rest of the photo. The dark spots don't bother me either. The whites in the water are border-line hot, but not too bad. All in all a very nice photo!

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by Maxis Gamez on Sun Nov 16, 2003 11:45 pm

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I like the contrast very much. There is not much detail in the BG however nice image.

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by DC on Mon Nov 17, 2003 5:20 am

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Thanks to everyone for taking the time to comment I do appreciate it.

All in all not too shabby for a first effort then

Hopefully I'll get the chance to take some more and improve a little.

Thanks again.

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by Dan Heimsoth on Mon Nov 17, 2003 8:15 am

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Definitely "not too shabby"! I really like the composition, and I like the flow of water around the boulder in the lower left, but I think I might have prefered just a little more space below the bottom of the boulder. For exposure I wouldn't want the whites any hotter than they are, so that doesn't leave many options for getting more detail into the shadows, but I would guess that the film actually has more shadow detail than we see here. Maybe a good 16-bit color depth scan and some editing could help.

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by DC on Mon Nov 17, 2003 11:32 am

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Dan Heimsoth wrote:Maybe a good 16-bit color depth scan and some editing could help.

It's a 24-bit 4000dpi scan, my PS skills are still in the basement tho

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by Dan Heimsoth on Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:05 pm

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I should have been more specific. By 16-bit color depth I meant per channel, or 16x3=48 bit. In theory that should give you much more dynamic range than 24 bit, but you'll need to edit that range around into the right places because most output devices (displays, printers) are hard pressed enough to handle 24 bit data. I'm sure you could handle the editing though. It just takes a little practice and an editor that works on 48 bit files.

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by Dick Ginkowski on Mon Nov 17, 2003 1:22 pm

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I like this shot. I think you have it well anchored. Where you may need to work a bit with it is that rather large blown out area in the middle of the image. It's a bit more difficult to focus on the rest of the shot as a result.

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