Just read that you have some color blindness. The photos seemed out of color balance. If you can, get your gf to help look at the pictures as you make any adjustments. Or consider including one picture for that scene/day with a color chart/grey scale. Making your pictures on screen match the color chart/grey scale in your hand will help when color balancing, even if you don't see the effect of the changes you are making because of your color blindness.

Nice site. I enjoy going there every few years while the water level is high enough to give nice volume for the falls. Anna Ruby is more tree covered and intimate. Amicalola Falls are larger and more open, more sunlight filtering/reaching the falls.

When viewing the EXIF data, the cause of several issues can be identified:

1) The images have a color cast. But, it's hard to judge when JPEGs are posted for viewing in the Adobe RGB colorspace. Instead, these should be saved to sRGB for sharing.

2) Also contributing to the colors is the WB set to Shade. If there is no intention to process the images, consider changing the colorspace back to sRGB and using Auto WB. For options in culling, capture versions in both Auto WB and Shade and compare the results on your large-screen monitor.

3) Comments earlier have already questioned f/22, or any aperture less than f/11.

4) Earlier comments mentioned the soft focus. I thought maybe the camera was moving on the tripod, but the 'soft' picture style of Portrait is the more likely cause. Note the sharpening settings at '2', being less than the '3' of Canon Standard and less than '4' of the Landscape picture style. Again, if the intention is to not process these images, a 'landscape' should be captured in either Canon's Standard or Landscape picture styles.

Beyond the softness of the picture style, look too at assuring the camera doesn't move. Use a wired remote or a 2- or 10-second delay. The first two from the top both seem to have some camera movement.

Consider 'where' to focus in the image. The 4th from the bottom with the stream flowing into the foreground and waterfall in the background is a great composition. Alas, the foreground details don't seem very focused. You probably should have placed an AF point at the lower-right 1/3 intersection where the large rock and tree intersect in the water. Or, an AF point on one of the rocks in the center of the stream. These would be 1/3 into the frame, and with a small aperture, will serve to achieve a sharp focus for the foreground through background while giving a sharp focus on a specific point of interest in the rule-of-thirds geography of the frame.

Keep up the work and become familiar with the technical details above and noted by others. Identify the corrective actions and get back out and try again. The layout of the final three landscape images have a lot of potential with the flow of water through the image. Thank you for the opportunity to help as some of these are good, with opportunities to be great, with some work on the details of technique while shooting.

I have a Canon 80D which is about 3 years old and has the original Canon battery which came with it. I fear the battery is failing because after charging for over 24 hrs, the camera reports a 60% charge and after taking 80 photos I have only 2 bars left.

Here is my question. I was ready to pay the $63 B&H wants for an QEM battery. Several people have recommended I try a Wasabi battery. A single battery is $10.99 vs $63. Now I know when things sound too good to be true, they usually are. There has to be a reason the OEM is so much more money.

Anyone have any experience with Wasabi batteries who can shed some light on this?

Thanks to all who respond

I have a dust problem with my Tamron SP 150-600 lens. I can clearly see the dust on the second lens and there is one large nib that shows up on every shot. I have a lot of other litte nibs that show up and when I'm editing a photo I know exactly where to find them in the photo. I know it not a sensor issue because it is cleaned regularly. Any recommendations on how to get rid of the dust? I disassembled the front lens element and. Cleaned the second several years ago and that helped for a while.