Anna Ruby Falls (Page 4): Well done...

deayala1 Loc: Pleasanton, CA

Well done

photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

deanfl wrote:

I took these yesterday in overcast conditions then light rain....in other words ideal weather.

Anna Ruby Falls is near Unicoi State Park and Helen,Georgia.

If you go be sure to take your lifetime National Senior Park Pass to get in free. My first time there I didn’t have mine with me...never again.

Nikon D7500 with Tamron 10-24(new version). No filters used.

Lovely falls!

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Nice work Dean.

Don

Bubalola Loc: Big Apple, NY

deanfl wrote:

I took these yesterday in overcast conditions then light rain....in other words ideal weather.

Anna Ruby Falls is near Unicoi State Park and Helen,Georgia.

If you go be sure to take your lifetime National Senior Park Pass to get in free. My first time there I didn’t have mine with me...never again.

Nikon D7500 with Tamron 10-24(new version). No filters used.

Nicely done, Dean!

Swede Loc: Trail, BC Canada

There's not to many places like this in Canada anymore, logging, mining, grow-opps have taken over, but the real good places are still around, locals know. Most are gravel roads, lengthy walk, when you get there, your there all by yourself!!
And the water doesn't have that fuzzy feeling, It looks the way YOU see it, not the way you want to see it.

Dean next time you see one of these waterfalls shoot a few faster, and compare them with the the long exposure' you might be surprised

Ourspolair

Perhaps a lesson here - we should all pay more attention to the R,G and B histograms. I shot a bunch of wedding photos under trees and quickly learnt how leaves modify colour balance!
I do like the photos you took - they are all excellent compositions. The issue of the "optimum" speed for waterfalls and rivers seems mostly to be a question of personal taste. I like the images that you created with the slower and the faster shutter speeds and would be happy to come home with those on my memory card!
It would be interesting to see the result of changing the levels in the green channel to compensate for the light filtration through the foliage, but as mentioned by others, the colour contamination inherent in the jpeg compression will continue to be an issue.
Keep up the good work and stay healthy.

deanfl Loc: Georgia

Swede wrote:

There's not to many places like this in Canada anymore, logging, mining, grow-opps have taken over, but the real good places are still around, locals know. Most are gravel roads, lengthy walk, when you get there, your there all by yourself!!
And the water doesn't have that fuzzy feeling, It looks the way YOU see it, not the way you want to see it.

Dean next time you see one of these waterfalls shoot a few faster, and compare them with the the long exposure' you might be surprised

Swede,
I earlier posted three photos taken at faster shutter speeds in response to your first post. Did you not see these?

deanfl Loc: Georgia

Bayou wrote:

Often times I'll desaturate and/or debrighten the greens and yellows in a woodsy (trees and leaves) shot. Or do the same to the blues in a shot with a lot of sky. Sometimes you really see how much cast there was by comparison once you get rid of it.

That is interesting. One of the editing steps I used in Photoshop Elements is to add the effect of saturated color slide film. I usually like the results. I can revisit this in regards to your comment about greens and yellows. Thank you for the information.

deanfl Loc: Georgia

Ourspolair wrote:

Perhaps a lesson here - we should all pay more att... (show quote)

Thank you for taking the time to review all of my photos and for doing your detailed response. I agree with your statement about the green channel...I plan to also take a closer look at this. Best of luck to you.

Swede Loc: Trail, BC Canada

deanfl wrote:

Swede,
I earlier posted three photos taken at faster shutter speeds in response to your first post. Did you not see these?

Okay lets get this straight- are you happy with them?? If you are, Great! Do you like the effect? Does it look real to you? Would you buy it?

To me photography is catching the moment- not the moment and a half.

Next time you get a scene like this " bracket a bunch"

Dean you will get nowhere if all you get is "at a boys" you learn by mistakes, criticism is your alley, but the more you learn the less 'at-a boy's' you will need.

Someone told you about this, my opinion they were wrong.

Swede

deanfl Loc: Georgia

Thanks, again, all!

manofhg Loc: Knoxville, TN

rmalarz wrote:

Dean, br Here's what I'm seeing in these. The issu... (show quote)

While I am very interested in how you solved the contamination issue, all I see in the two images you posted is a olive drab green image (no features) and a dark brown image, also no features. Looks like two solid shaded images of a wall or a flat white area through colored filters.