Santa fe trail

[gary rouleau]

Canon EOS-1D Mark II N
Lens (mm): 56
ISO: 100
Aperture: 22
Shutter: 1/3
Exp. Comp.: 0.0

[Robert Amoruso]

Gary,

This is a tough waterfall to photograph with all the busy surroundings but I think you did well here. On the right, I would crop closer to the waterfall as the diagonal branch is a strong element in the image. By cropping, the branch will fill the image more and create a nice right to left leading line in the image.

The shadows are very dark and that is distracting. I feel you need to revisit the processing and work to get more detail in the shadows. There is also some funky looking artifacts in the branch in the upper left. I see this kid of artifacts in HDR images. Did you use a HDR program here?

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Gary,
Agree with Robert on the overall darkness. The bright spot popping through is ok...but the branch does look funky on my monitor.
Roman