B&W / Color, Crop No Crop? I took these last night and cant decide which I like better. Which do you prefer?

Lens Cap Loc: The Cold North Coast

I took these last night and cant decide which I like better. Which do you prefer?

High Falls Crop B&W

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High Falls Crop

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High Falls B&W

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High Falls Crop

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Coolcameragirl Loc: Bradenton, FL

They are two totally different photos. Personally, I like the full view color the best.

CORNISH Loc: CORNWALL, UK

I prefer the last one, the very nice falls and not so nice buildings to me makes an interesting photograph, cheers Chris

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

Whenever I can't decide which of two (or more) versions of the same shot I prefer, I simply consider each as a separate image and keep both. This doesn't happen too often as I have a clear vision of what I want at time of shooting - I don't just aim the camera at something interesting, then figure out later what I want to do with it.

djtravels Loc: Georgia boy now

I'd like a faster shutter speed. I'm not a fan of milky water, in any form.

Lens Cap Loc: The Cold North Coast

Coolcameragirl, thanks for looking and commenting!

Coolcameragirl wrote:

They are two totally different photos. Personally, I like the full view color the best.

Lens Cap Loc: The Cold North Coast

CORNISH,

Thanks you for looking and your kind words.

CORNISH wrote:

I prefer the last one, the very nice falls and not so nice buildings to me makes an interesting photograph, cheers Chris

Lens Cap Loc: The Cold North Coast

rook2c4, you are right,I will probably keep both images. Thanks for looking and commenting.

rook2c4 wrote:

Whenever I can't decide which of two (or more) versions of the same shot I prefer, I simply consider each as a separate image and keep both. This doesn't happen too often as I have a clear vision of what I want at time of shooting - I don't just aim the camera at something interesting, then figure out later what I want to do with it.

Lens Cap Loc: The Cold North Coast

djtravels, I understand your personal preference on the faster shutter speed. I did some test shots of every stop on the adjustable ND filter. I need to go back and look closer at them. Also it looks like I lost the lighting of the sun going down on these.

thanks for looking and commenting.

djtravels wrote:

I'd like a faster shutter speed. I'm not a fan of milky water, in any form.

bbrown5154 Loc: Baltimore, MD

Lens Cap wrote:

I took these last night and cant decide which I like better. Which do you prefer?

I like the full framed color version the best. Very nice shot.
Is there anyway you could add a little more color to the sky?

Lens Cap Loc: The Cold North Coast

bbrown5154, I'm glad you like it. Unfortunatly the cloudy white sky is very common up here on the north coast. The day before it was a beautiful blue sky... I'vr tried adding in colors and used layers and to me I just get a fake look, so I've given up trying that for now.

Thanks for looking and commenting

bbrown5154 wrote:

I like the full framed color version the best. Very nice shot.
Is there anyway you could add a little more color to the sky?

bbrown5154 Loc: Baltimore, MD

Lens Cap wrote:

bbrown5154, I'm glad you like it. Unfortunatly the cloudy white sky is very common up here on the north coast. The day before it was a beautiful blue sky... I'vr tried adding in colors and used layers and to me I just get a fake look, so I've given up trying that for now.

Thanks for looking and commenting

What PP software are you using?
In Lightroom you can select the "graduated Filter" and put it over the sky and then warm up the temp a little or even adjust the exposure. Just a suggestion.

But I think its a really nice shot the way it is too.

On second thought and a second look disregard my suggestion.
I like it the way it is.

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

I tend to lean towards the first one.

rlaugh Loc: Michigan & Florida

Though I love B&W..I think I like 2 and 4 the best in these...I also think the milky water works well in these because the shots are far enough away that they wouldn't have shown much detail in the water,such as individual drops etc....good job!

FvS Loc: Netherlands

Beautiful overview over the falls ,excellent work great use of slow shutter speed , I personally prefer the color images , no crop....