Fish Creek Falls, Steamboat, CO. USA

[kenyc]

Not the "best" pic, but I kinda like it. Comments, suggestions welcomed.
Canon EOS 20D 6/11/2005 6:13:39 1/15s f 11.0 ISO 400 17.0 - 85.0 mm @ 17.0 mm
Minor tweaking (cropping, usm, levels) in Photoshop.

KAC

[Titus213]

Looks like rough country. The image is quite dark. It appears that the water overpowerd the woods light wise. If you shot in raw is should be fixable as far as the light goes. I find getting the water and the woods lit properly is very difficult.

[kenyc]

It was pretty early (see the time - 6/11/2005 6:13:39) so still a bit dark. It was not shot raw, but I'm not sure that would make any difference given the contrast. It is quite difficult to get the right lighting for this sort of thing and I've still got a lot to learn. :)

Thanks for you comments.
KAC

[SWPhotoImaging]

If it were shot Raw, then in the PS Raw converter, you could increase contrast, reduce exposure a tad, and bump brightness and saturation to both lighten and increase color contrast, maybe warm it up (temperature) and Viola!, you'd have the white water AND the green and contrasty woods (with a few minor tweaks after bringing it nto PS).

The beauty of a raw file is that all those things that the in-camera JPG converter does so permanently and irrevocably are then options you can do selectively later. The pain is that all those things the in-camera JPG converter does for you in-camera MUST then be done afterwards (or you can always extract the JPG from the Raw, and have it both ways.)

Still a nice pic as is! And a beautiful place.