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Good evening,
I sent this image of a waterfell from the wilderness to curation and from the member curatos I got a pretty good percentage and also a few compliments but a low percentage from the head curators and it wasn't published. Could you please tell me what are its flaws and what can I do to improve it? Thank you. F14 3.2s 16mm iso 100
Hi Vlad and welcome. First may I ask you did you put up this image for selection with your name tag attached bottom middle. If so it;s against the rules and could be why it was rejected.
Just a few ideas to give your image more impact Nik Tools Tonal Conteast to add texture and punch. Camera Raw White's rolled back to try and help the water bleaching / Burn and dodge tool work on water and rocks....
Hi Vlad and welcome. First may I ask you did you put up this image for selection with your name tag attached bottom middle. If so it;s against the rules and could be why it was rejected.
Just a few ideas to give your image more impact Nik Tools Tonal Conteast to add texture and punch. Camera Raw White's rolled back to try and help the water bleaching / Burn and dodge tool work on water and rocks....
At the curation it wasn't with the name tag, I put the version with the watermark accidentaly at the critique. Thank you for the advice.
Dear Vlad,
Thanks for participating in critique. To be frank, I'm not too fond of these long exposure waterfall shots, I prefer an exposure where the dynamics of flow is underlined, not killed in blur. Usually with fat flowing water it's somewhere between 0.3and 0.6 sec I'd prefer.
But technically, it looks like a perfect shot. A bit of counterlight, very sharp. SO I have only two suggestions for you. I'd flip it left/right, so the water follows our way of reading photographs, ending a t the bottom righht. And I altered your slightly purple ton in the water. Purple is a cool color, the other elements are rather warm. Quite often photographers leave that slight color cast if they shoot elements in shadow. I then wonder whey the did not notice, the rality wasn't purple. These two modifications lead to:
Best regards,
Mike
Good evening,
I sent this image of a waterfell from the wilderness to curation and from the member curatos I got a pretty good percentage and also a few compliments but a low percentage from the head curators and it wasn't published. Could you please tell me what are its flaws and what can I do to improve it? Thank you. F14 3.2s 16mm iso 100
Hello Vlad Paulet ,
Thank you for submitting to the Critique Forum this beautiful waterfall image.
Personally, I love long exposure waterfalls like this one. The light is very nice too. One thing that bothers me a little is the log on the left with the dead branches. Because of that, I would not want to put this picture up on my wall. Of course that is just my own personal taste ! So I cropped the image tighter in a 4x6 format to remove some of it.
Here are some edits I would suggest:
In Nik Color Efex Pro, i enhanced the details a little, and I adjusted the contrast with the Tonal C filter. I also increase the greens a little with the Foliage Filter. Then, in photoshop, i adjusted the highlights on the water and brighten part of the image a little (like some rocks). After the 4x6 crop, I readded the leaf that had been cropped out because I liked it but it might looked like a distraction. It's a personal choice.
Finally, I usedf Topaz Denoise.
I hope these suggestions are helpful to you.
Regards,
Lucie s.c.
Thank you everyone for the suggestions!
Vlad,
You've already received some great comments so I won't go over that same area again.
I'd suggest cropping as shown in the screenshot below. The lighted area above the falls is nice but also distracting as it take your eye off of the falls. This is a common issue when photographing waterfalls.
Second, I've circled a branch near the bottom of the photo. Something about that just catches my eye as a bit unnatural in the way it lies. Did you cut and paste that in or was it actually there? I'd be tempted to clone it out as it could be a distraction.
Best wishes,
Mike S. - Senior Critic
