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Uvas Canyon is as County park, half hour from my home. When it rains, its many falls come to life. I went bit later in the season, but this is what I got.
My aspirations were to try and create pseudo-abstracts based on nature. Of course landscape is part of it.
Would greatly appreciate it if you can let me know which ones work, if any.
Cheers!
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My aspirations were to try and create pseudo-abstracts based on nature. Of course landscape is part of it.
Would greatly appreciate it if you can let me know which ones work, if any.
Cheers!
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Thansk Jo! I appreciate it much!
My only beef (and I fall prey to this myself) is with your shutter drag in these... it's too long and you have over-softened the water a tad too much. Like I say, I am guilty of this myself and each water shot requires it's own balance of soft water shutter drag and not too much... even the same waterfall may require adjustments depending on the time of year, water volume, flow, etc.
What happens in many of these is that they almost look like x-ray films, where the stronger parts of the flow against the softer, thinner (where the grayness of the rock shows through) is that it gives the feeling of looking at washed out bones on the x-ray panel. You see this most prominently in #5. I think with maybe a little less shutter lag, this problem would have been solved
These look like you may have drug the shutter for what... 2 to 4 whole seconds? I am thinking that maybe 1/15 or 1/30 may have done the trick... but maybe that's not what you were aiming for.... if you look at #9 especially, the areas where the water is pooled (thicker) the whites are ghostly bright compared to the rest of the water.... which they generally will always be, but with the extended shutter lag, it pronounces this effect.
Sorry to sound like a downer.... these are good and for your abstract effect you wanted, I do like #3... that pipe placement is pretty cool. Also, I apologize for sounding like a waterfall know it all.... I have shot enough of them to know where I did things wrong and where I found I could improve... thought i'd share my thoughts.
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Lee greatly appreciate tremendous input!
I think I should have experimented with different shutters.....for trying to create dreamlike abstracts, I thought longer shutter would do it. Perhaps I can try again, we still got some moisture. I will try 1/40 then. Cheers!
I like the rest very much. You create an effective mood. That much blur in water appeals to me, but I know that tastes differ. They don't seem particularly abstract to me, although the color balance seems more impressionistic than representational. I'd be very pleased with this group.
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Thanks Don! I needed that input!
The "pipe" is actually a log, like the one fallen below it, but unfortunately it has too perfect a shape. I considered moving it, but thought it gave something to think about.
I also thought it looked like a pipe....
Wherever I have black rock and water....there wasn't much color to fine tune....part of what appealed to me.....also everything was shot in shade.....For the first two, I have pushed the "green luminance" to make moss more prominent....perhaps went over.
Cheers!
#2 is my most favorite without the pipe. The green moss against the rugged dark slippery rock toward the right side background is what I really like. You show that well.
The water seems like a secondary because of the slower shutter speed but maybe that is what you intend.
The colors are fabulous in all of them.
Thanks Anna Maria! Walking on slippery rocks was bit hairy but not that bad.
I did want to highlight the "Pipe", but I was hoping it would come across as a log.....;o)
I was hoping to shoot #2 from the side to create just a little bit of mystery if I could....and relying on long shutter to get it a second look....but maybe should try bit less shutter....
Many many thanks!
Yes...a log! Cheers!
Oops messageses must have been crossed. A pipe... Let it stay!
As to abstract... For me there is too much realism in the forms and nature for it to be abstract. I would classify these more as late-romantic - they remind me a bit of works of my favorite 19th century french romantic painter, Corot.
Thanks for sharing!
Cheers, Sara
Thanks Sarah! I think I had thought at the moment I took the shots that pipe (was a log) was making the shot, but it didn't work. I had gone down to water level to remove it, but had second thoughts.
Thanks so much for teaching me about Corot. I love that term late-romantic, even if I don't fully know it yet. I shall look it up! Cheers!
Glad to have turned you on to Corot!
Cheers, Sara
Very nice work. #2 and #8 are the nicest in my view. I am not too keen on the pipe, but opinions vary.
Edit: Just read the rest of the post... a log really??
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Hah! Thanks Cristobal! I really appreciate your input as my inspiration was to create Juano-shots.
I think I know what to do with the pipe now.....
I think, perhaps, the shutter speed might have been shortened just a bit in #1 and #2. I would have not changed them for the rest.
As for the log/pipe, I agree, it is just too much for me. Is it not a worthy subject to my eye, compared to the whiter, flowing water behind it, unless maybe these images were for an article on leftover hydraulic structures in aquatic features in state parks, or something similar. If they were a stick that I could remove, I would have. I like the falls behind them a lot.
Thanks for posting these images.
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Thanks Jim!