Falls Final

[Black Pearl]

I've fiddled on for a few days with these images and have finally flung up my hands - there is something not quite right about this shot but its the best of the bunch I took while on holiday and I wanted to share at least one of them.

 

It is actually three shots stacked together using Helicon Focus - one focused on the brown rock, one in the middle and one at the background as I wanted a greater DoF field than I could achieve doing it in-camera.....ad no the one with limited DoF doesn't look better, though by now I'm not convinced its worse either 

 

 

Pentax K30

Pentax 50-200mm

1.3 sec  -  f16  - 100iso

[jeremy rundle]

Stunning

 

Contrast

 

lead in

 

focal point

 

colours

[Leon]

 

 

milky water!!!!

[Caz]

i realy like it

[ChrisLumix]

I actually like it a lot, but I could see almost immediately what COULD be wrong. Bear with me...

 

That processing is all about textures - rocks, moss, water. It's kind of HDR, with all the levels equalised.

 

In such a shot, I wonder ... is the motion blur in the water appropriate? It would be fascinating to compare two versions :

 

1. The shot as above, but with the water as fully textured as everything else, i.e. no motion blur.

2. A more conventional shot of it, with blurry water.

 

Does that make sense? 

[Black Pearl]

It does and I might have some faster shutter speed examples - the flip side being the relationship between the rough and the smooth adds interest.

 

I'll have anther look and another fiddle.

[THELONGMAN]

The only thing wrong I can see is that I didn't take it, -- Really nice picture 

 

Geoff