Sick of pics yet? Waterfall (56k slaughter)

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Shot these this morning switching between a -2 Grad ND filter and a Circular Polarizer. Some curves, edge/midtone burning, saturation and hue adjustments in PS but nothing very major (except at the edges) little USM and viola :thumbsup

You dig?

(Sorry bout the borders/titles :( not advertising on purpose)

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I'm torn between the second and third being my fav...

Either way, awesome work Ben!!! :thumbsup

[jbiscuit]

They all look a little underexposed Ben. #1 could benefit from a tad longer shutter. #2 is nice but again underexposed...brighten the water. #3 could use a saturation bump for the green grass....almosta stellar shot here. #4 I am not crazy about the composition. No real focal point...

My favorite shot is #3. Its great compositionally and I love the grass...

[v6camarogrl]

#3 is awesome!!! nice work!!

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They all look a little underexposed Ben. #1 could benefit from a tad longer shutter. #2 is nice but again underexposed...brighten the water. #3 could use a saturation bump for the green grass....almosta stellar shot here. #4 I am not crazy about the composition. No real focal point...

My favorite shot is #3. Its great compositionally and I love the grass...

Ok, well #1 is actually intended to be stop action 1/1000 shutter @ f/5.6. I tried it even faster but it looked downright cheesy (too frozen) and any slower didn't look slow enough (not until like 1/45 anyway) still not the best capture but it was I think the best one of the freeze frames from that angle anyway.

#2 I actually did brighten the water a tad but only to the very edge of the histogram. Personally I hate highlight blowout almost worse than anything and with the water blurred as much as it is if I go any higher it looks like an ice glacier rather than water :rolf Anyway these do look a little dark, but I intended them to be pretty contrasty and purposely forced low exposure in one part or another (with the grad ND) to keep the highlights where I wanted them. I might have gone a little too far on the burning in areas but it still looks decent here (maybe my monitors are too bright? :confused )

#3 Does actually have a small saturation/hue increase for the grass but I didn't want to go crazy with it because it looses the much neede lighting contrast and starts to look drawn in rather than real life. It just looked cartoonish at any value over +15 so I kept it at like +9 or something. Velvia would have been nice there :thumbsup

#4 Eh, ya no real main point, I just kinda dug the little "pockets" of light here and there.

Mainly these were just a dramatic light / mood series test more than anything. I learned alot about shooting it (very difficult to meter the almost at times black water and the blinding white rocks while avoiding blowout :rolleyes: ) I just need to get out there again at sunrise ;)

Here is the original histograms for the four . . .

http://aurigenmedia.com/misc/hist1.gif

Glad you guys liked some of them thanks fo tha compliments :shades