AZ Falls

anwmn1

This is AZ Falls and is part of the canal system that runs through the greater Phoenix area. Usually there are lights on that make it a pretty neat place to shoot at night.
Of course the time I take a friend there for her first time, her battery is dead and the lights are off. Luckily I had a tripod and decided to shoot some long exposure shots.

This is a shot with the lights on.


Here is from Saturday night.






Thanks for looking. C&C welcome

Aaron

Steve1962

Water
Nice one !

Water works ..........especially when photographed like this lot .

Steve

anwmn1

Thanks Steve!

moylesm

Love those shots...especially the first two. The first one really has potential in my mind, but appears that the camera was quite crooked -- was that intentional? If not, I suggest leveling the photo -- Transform tool in PhotoShop -- to make it level. It would be much more attractive (to me) if I didn't have to tilt my head to view it...otherwise, great shots, and great use of shutter speed. Well done.

Zoom Raider

I like them all, but the bottom three remind me of the Jasper wall that surrounds the City of Heaven.
Especially those blocks that have the water flowing over them. Very nice.

:devbobo

Bob&Glennie

Now that is interesting. I like your choice to shoot in the late evening. I'm usually so dis-interested in city pictures that I seldom take my camera with me when I have to go downtown but you've made a couple of images that I find attractive. I like #1 and #4. Would there have been a way to avoid the foreground blocks in #4?

Bob

System

Nit ususally a fan of long exposure water shots...ya just see so many of them, but the shots with the lights off are really nice. Very unique angles and compositions. I dig em.

The first Sat night shot suffers from a show stealing light spot in the upper left corner. I'd crop or clone that out. as it kilss a absolutely stunning image, the best of the buch. The lighting on the 2 squares is awesome. If you could reshoot it it feels like it wants to be shot from a touch furter to the left to move that out of frame.

The last photo is also really nice but cutting off the bottom of the square irks me, as does the tiny corner of the second square on the far right side.

The middle image is to me the weakest of the three. I thinka toch of an angle adjustment to get the horizon level might help. I can see what you were trying to frame up but it feels like the top of the frame just does not work with the overall scene.

anwmn1

Thank you Bob and Zoom Raider

Bob - are you in the Phoenix area?

The blocks could be avoided in teh fourth shot but I was actually trying to get them in it.

Aaron

anwmn1

truth wrote:

Nit ususally a fan of long exposure water shots...ya just see so many of them, but the shots with the lights off are really nice. Very unique angles and compositions. I dig em.

The first Sat night shot suffers from a show stealing light spot in the upper left corner. I'd crop or clone that out. as it kilss a absolutely stunning image, the best of the buch. The lighting on the 2 squares is awesome. If you could reshoot it it feels like it wants to be shot from a touch furter to the left to move that out of frame.

The last photo is also really nice but cutting off the bottom of the square irks me, as does the tiny corner of the second square on the far right side.

The middle image is to me the weakest of the three. I thinka toch of an angle adjustment to get the horizon level might help. I can see what you were trying to frame up but it feels like the top of the frame just does not work with the overall scene.

Thanks for the comments. As for the long exposure water -I prefer it to just slapping a filter on. There are too many filters to make something look other than it is.

I agree the lighting in the second shot is not the best and I cut a few corners- literally- off the blocks.

I wish I had posted a shot of some of the things I was working around. I was standing up against and on a small wall with a railing- trying to eliminate the railing from the shots. At times I had my tripod in the water and was leaning out over the railing- another time I was on one of the blocks- that is until I got a funny look from security. :toni He also told me I couldn't get out in the water- I wanted a shot up against the wall of the falls capturing the full length of them.

Thanks for the imput though I will take it into consideration when I reshoot.

Aaron

shawnc

anwmn1 wrote:

This is AZ Falls and is part of the canal system that runs through the greater Phoenix area. Usually there are lights on that make it a pretty neat place to shoot at night.
Of course the time I take a friend there for her first time, her battery is dead and the lights are off. Luckily I had a tripod and decided to shoot some long exposure shots.

This is a shot with the lights on.


Here is from Saturday night.

Thanks for looking. C&C welcome

Aaron

Hello Aaron, took a look at your galleries, love your work! I am local in CaveCreek, Az. We sure have unlimited opportunities for Capturing beauty here in this desert. If you're ever in my part of the city, give me a shout. I could sure use some pointers to better my new found hobby.