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A few more from the weekend.

A couple cyclops caught in the act



Some small rapids on the Allyn River



and the Ladies Well waterfall, on the Allyn river.



C&C appreciated

Cheers,

André

The first one's a beaut, I cracked up as soon as I saw it

The second one has the water nicely framed, but needs some greenery or items of interest in the TL area or maybe the foreground... Just needs something to balance against the water and rocks... Wonder what that spot would look like from low down near ground level? Like in the last one...

The last one is an unusual angle, really interesting when the rocks at the bottom of the water are visible, although maybe a smidge left in the framing, as in bring the two falls a smidge to the right in the image? Did you use a polariser?

The Ladies Well waterfall looks like a magic spot...

#1 is supposed to be a secret!!! the special field testing of a new tripod exclusively available through Birddog... the Benro Pajero Pressed Steel Model. Extra portable at 2000 Kg, also comes with leather and Sat Nav.

Hi Andrew,

mudder wrote:The second one has the water nicely framed, but needs some greenery or items of interest in the TL area or maybe the foreground... Just needs something to balance against the water and rocks... Wonder what that spot would look like from low down near ground level? Like in the last one...

Correct, some greenery would be nice, I'll look in my other photos for a different perspective.

The last one is an unusual angle, really interesting when the rocks at the bottom of the water are visible, although maybe a smidge left in the framing, as in bring the two falls a smidge to the right in the image? Did you use a polariser?

I also like this one. I'll move the falls , since I had cropted it. I did use a polariser, unfortunately, still have a bit of overexposure in the main part. daniel_r has a great one of these.

Ladies Well is well worth revisiting, will be in the next few months.

daniel_r wrote:#1 is supposed to be a secret!!! the special field testing of a new tripod exclusively available through Birddog... the Benro Pajero Pressed Steel Model. Extra portable at 2000 Kg, also comes with leather and Sat Nav.

André

Okay,

added a bit more to the left, ie moved the waterfalls to the right.



Thanks Andrew, I think that works better,

Cheers,

André

André

I think the recropped version of the Lady's well falls makes a good shot even better. Guess it was worth getting your tripod's feet wet to take that one

Ah the different crop has helped a lot I think, seems a much stronger horizontal balance, if you wanna play in PP I'd try bringing the rocks and details under the water up a smidge to strengthen the foreground interest, might be worth a play? Only as a play suggestion...

Re: the highlights... They don't seem too bad to me... I see you shot RAW, was there any EV compensation when converting the image from RAW? The reason I ask is that by lowering the EV when converting a second version of the image, you could use just the lower exposed highlights from the (sort of) under-exposed version, pasted into this one. Basically merging the two exposures, good for saving burnt highlights, I do that a fair bit for waterfall stuff and some landscape stuff...

Strewth, the punishment my tripod's seen