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Fall at Dingman's Falls
Uploaded on: August 5, 2008
I let the lens flare happen to get a sense of light coming through the trees. Sharing a boardwalk with tourists who stomp and shake a boardwalk isnt easy. Hard to get a better vantage point than the one shot here at Dingmans falls near the Poconos, PA.
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JuliaB has offered this critique,
Wow. Where to I begin? I have seen NIK Color Efx used before, but never this well. An amazingly effective use, its very difficult, if not impossible, to tell this was not the height of the fall. This is a good example of the furtherest you can take a photoshop manipulation because it becomes photo illustration. Yes, you’ve used some ‘trickery’ to enhance the scene, but in an excellent way. Changing the ‘season’ to enhance the waterfall is, in my mind, perfectly fine to do.
The lens flare adds that certain touch that lends that little something extra. In other words, it works here. The composition, the way the waterfall is frame is excellent. Your high aperture keeps everything in fine focus, the DoF is excellent. Your shutter speed, the lack of silkiness to the water could not be better than this. Even the streak of reflection of the falling water upon the foreground water is a very nice touch to an already creative photo.
I apologize, but I cannot offer you any advice on how to do this photo any better than you have.
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Aradia says,
I think this is really nice, but I am a fan of sharp details and the softness surrounding the falls takes away from the image, and adds a haze that washes out the sky, which I find distracting and not pleasing. That is just my opinion, however, and I mean no offense.
I do think the scene and setting are lovely.