Its 2am...'nuff said -- ver 9.0

Im just going to imagine you didnt post that other image

Hey Steven, I was looking through your photos on Flickr and came across this one that I thought was almost your best shot.

http://www.flickr.com …7/sizes/l/in/ph​otostream/


Now, what would make it your best shot (in my opinion) is if you were to crop it just above that bench or whatever it is. After that little fix, it would be a wall hanger if I had shot it......Seriously!

vipergts831 wrote in post #12310012
Thats a good start to understanding it. Have you looked the the histogram in LR? When you hover over it in the develop mode it shows you exactly what would be affected if you clicked and dragged inside of it.

hhmmm I see the red and blue blinking if I click on them...but have never really tried dragging them

FJ LOVE wrote in post #12310014
i know landscapers love the velvet look of water to represent it moving but i prefer a little faster shutter to show the power of a waterfall

that's all i was saying, Harm showed a waterfall a while back hanheld so the shutter was a bit faster and the water looked so much more powerful

maybe it's a distance thing as well, up close faster shutter further back more velvet water, again just my opinion but i'm more a lighting guy what do i know

ohhh you want it to be faster... ok ok I actually have some fast shutter shots of the falls...

look

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Geoff_Shawcross wrote in post #12310047
Hey Steven, I was looking through your photos on Flickr and came across this one that I thought was almost your best shot.

http://www.flickr.com …7/sizes/l/in/ph​otostream/


Now, what would make it your best shot (in my opinion) is if you were to crop it just above that bench or whatever it is. After that little fix, it would be a wall hanger if I had shot it......Seriously!

Thank you Geoff...I am actually quite confused as to what to do with that shot.. as you can probably remember you liked the other one as well

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Steven, other than that one little crop that I suggested, I wouldn't do anything else to it.

Geoff_Shawcross wrote in post #12310085
Steven, other than that one little crop that I suggested, I wouldn't do anything else to it.

here ya go Geoff... I widened it back a bit...to give it that pano look

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Now that's what I was talking about! That is a shot to be proud of.

Geoff_Shawcross wrote in post #12310106
Now that's what I was talking about! That is a shot to be proud of.

Thank you

you seem very consistent in your taste Geoff

monk3y wrote in post #12310051
hhmmm I see the red and blue blinking if I click on them...but have never really tried dragging them

ohhh you want it to be faster... ok ok I actually have some fast shutter shots of the falls...

look

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Pataanfalls-0032 by bee_tee_double_you, on Flickr


you like that Martin?

seriously... I never thought about shooting it with a bit faster shutter to give the water that moving look... need to remember it next time.. Thanks

that's way to fast Steven somewhere between those speeds is what i mean, slow enough it's flowing but fast enough to catch a bit of power

if you look at water running out of the tap in your kitchen sink and you look at a raging falls you physically see a difference, if you can capture that difference you have my attention

when i look at landscape shots it's the water that makes it or breaks it for me, a 5 second exposure of water falls just doesn't feel the same as maybe a beach shot to me of the same exposure

Don't have much natural waterfalls in the desert, this one is handheld snapshot at Wynns hotel,

FJ LOVE wrote in post #12310117
that's way to fast Steven somewhere between those speeds is what i mean, slow enough it's flowing but fast enough to catch a bit of power

if you look at water running out of the tap in your kitchen sink and you look at a raging falls you physically see a difference, if you can capture that difference you have my attention

when i look at landscape shots it's the water that makes it or breaks it for me, a 5 second exposure of water falls just doesn't feel the same as maybe a beach shot to me of the same exposure

ha!! ok I will shoot some waterfalls again in the next few weeks and I'll show you again I'll keep that in mind. Thanks

I am guessing around 1/10 should be good enough for most waterfalls

here's some more

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monk3y wrote in post #12310114
Thank you

you seem very consistent in your taste Geoff

Well, I know what I like in a shot. For me, when I look at a landscape shot, it either has to have no man made structures in it or they have to look like the belong there (the landscape should be the primary subject). I can be very picky sometimes because of that though.

Natural, morning shoot with GND filter