My Very First Waterfall Shots...

[Trieu]

Hi everyone , this is my first post so I hope I get it right....
I am pretty new to photography and already have fallen in love with it....
I had the chance to visit Hobart for work and while there JohnD and I visited Mt Field National Park and here are two of my very first shots playing with the exposure times and using a tripod.
I learnt so much over the weekend!
Take a look and let me know what you think? how could I improve the shots? ANY FEEDBACK IS GOOD FEEDBACK
Got my Canon 350D/Tamron 18-200mm lens in January 2006 and lovin' every moment I am out there taking shots!!
Thanks again JohnD for taking me

1st Pic



2nd Pic



Cheers,
Trieu
http://www.trieu.smugmug.com/
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[Alex]

Sorry... can't see the photos.

Alex

[avkomp]

nothing seen here either.

Steve

[Trieu]

Any luck now? not sure what I am doing wrong.. when I preview it comes up and shows the two pics..

Any suggestions? I went through the "how to" section as well...

[NikonUser]

Nope still not showing Trieu. You sure you have the address right?

Welcome to the forums by the way. I'm sure someone else who uses smugmug will help you out.

Paul

[avkomp]

trieu:

I read the properties from the post and went to your smugmug galleries.
I can see the small and medium version of shot 1, the large one though, I cannot see. dont use smugmug so suggest might be a permission thing??
perhaps one of our smugmug users can help


this is the image in question.
I can see it no worries as a medium size. note that it shows up in the post now.

I am guessing that you can see images in your first post??
if so that suggests it is something to do with user permissions in your smugmug gallery

Steve

[avkomp]

paul, can you see the image I posted from tieus gallery??

Steve

[NikonUser]

Nope. Nothing

[avkomp]

I am guessing that this is the other image you intended to post:


again browsing your gallery I can see the medium but not large.

Steve

[Trieu]

Oh man.... how frustated am I.... I just changed the links to the medium shots.. hopefully it is working now.

Thanks Steve for the help so far!

[NikonUser]

I just went to your gallery Trieu... I can view the medium image but the large one doesn't seem to exist.

Avkomp I can see that last one you posted.

[avkomp]

paul: out of curiosity, try browsing to http://trieu.smugmug.com
and going to the gallery manually.
I have no issues seeing the pix then. not the large though
Steve

[Slider]

Trieu, the 2nd shot is a ripper. Love it I think the 1st is a bit "busy" in teh foreground area with the branches drawing attention from the waterfall.

[NikonUser]

Oh man.... how frustated am I.... I just changed the links to the medium shots.. hopefully it is working now.

Thanks Steve for the help so far!

Second one is working now. First one still MIA

[avkomp]

damn, now the images are gone, including the ones I just posted for him

Steve

[avkomp]

trieu, whatever you just did to your smugmug gallery I cant see the medium and large images now !! can still see the small one though.



Steve

[spada]

Hi
I can see the second one now, very nice capture.

regards
spada

[avkomp]

now I am getting really confused. I cant browse your site and see them at any size. grrrrrr

Steve

[Trieu]

I am so sorry guys.. I am not sure what I have now done... Smugmug seems to change pics on me every time I refresh the my smugmug link.

Oh no.. I'll have to ask others who have used Smugmug to post their pics..

So much for my first post... sorry!

[avkomp]

some of the smugmug users will surely be able to offer assistance

Dont worry about the errors. we wont hold those against you!!
Steve

[avkomp]

might be worth starting a new thread titled something like "smugmug help" or similar in beginners section and outlining the issues. many users here are with smugmug and they should be able to help.

Steve

[Slider]

I can see the images perfectly

[avkomp]

Mark, I have browsed his smugmug site a few times but keep getting different URLs for the images.

Steve

[mudder]

G'day,

Can't see the images in the thread but can cut&paste them into a browser and that works OK.

Went to your site and can see all versions of the posted waterfall shots...

I'll post a link to them and see if they come up for me...:




EDIT: Well I can see it, can you guys?

[spada]

Yes

spada

[mudder]

Doh, I just realised I didn't leave feedback on your shots, sorry...

Tassie, I can't wait, I'm going there for a few days Anzac day week-end

I *MUCH* prefer the second shot out of these two, mainly because of the angle and foreground interest in the rock, which is well placed...

- Lower angle made a much more interesting use of the scene for me
- Good strong foreground interest in the rock in the left cnr
- The part of water coming in from the right hand edge is awkwardly placed in the frame though, I seem to looking up that water and out of the frame... Might be just me
- Maybe one step to the right and framing more of that right hand side water out of frame and getting more of the water behind the foreground rocks into your subject?
- Careful with your exposure in PP, some of the highlights in the water seem to be edging on blown...
- Oh, I always wet the rocks and moss in the foreground too, as it brings their color alive... Good tips for waterfalls, bring waders and a bucket to splash water on rocks and stuff

Just trying to offer feedback, love waterfall shots and I enjoyed these, cheers...

[johnd]

Trieu, I like both these shots of yours, but especially the second one. I checked them out from your smugmug site. I'll give you a call at work tomorrow and we can talk thru what is going on and why they aren't displaying.

As Andrew said, splashing water around helps with making the rocks look wet. Shouldn't have been a problem though, seeing it was raining most of the time. And that wasn't the only thing that was wet. Mountain stream water is suprisingly cold, especially the third time you go up to your knee in it.

Cheers
John

[Trieu]

Ok.... I am hoping this will now work, thanks JohnD.

Third time lucky maybe?

[johnd]

It's working well know, Trieu.
Cheers
John

[Ree]

mmm I see ALL of them

And I like them both.

The 2nd I think would be better if you cropped out the upper part of the fall? It looks abit 'busy'. Great fuzz on the water thou

[Sheila Smart]

Nice work on the second.

Cheers
Sheila

[Aussie Dave]

When using SmugMug, you need to make sure that you give people the ability to view the "large" versions of your images. To do this, goto:

Gallery Tools > Customise Gallery > Originals (set to YES) and Larges (set to YES)

Also, make sure you have "Ext Links" set to YES.

To display the large images in your posts:
- click on the thumbnail which will open the larger image.
- If it is not the full-sized image, click the "O" at the top, which will change the view to the "original" sized image.
- Right click this image and select properties - copy the URL and then paste it into your dSLRUsers post...

Hope this helps....

[avkomp]

it occured to me that with all the image issues, I forgot to comment on the images themselves.

I like the second, but feel like I want to see the fells which are cut off at the top.

perhaps if you tilted up slightly to get both falls.

you need to be a little careful when shooting shots of falls like this, there can be a tendency to blow the whites.

still pleasing shots for a first attempt.

Steve

[Catcha]

Second shot is my pick, the water does not seem to be blury enough compared to other shots I have seen, maybe a even more slower shutter may of help, no expert myself

[johnd]

I like the second, but feel like I want to see the fells which are cut off at the top.

perhaps if you tilted up slightly to get both falls.

Steve, I took some shots that show more of the falls. I'll post them over Easter.

I agree though, Trieu has done an excellent job with these shots.

Cheers
John