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Landscapes Moderator
Driver's River, Jamaica
One from my trip to Port Antonio, Jamaica in February. This one is of a small section of the Driver's River in the John Crowe Mountains. After walking down through this cascade to the very edge of the next cascade I realized that I needed a wider lens than I had. I chose to use my Nikon DX 12-24mm lens on my Nikon D800 in full frame mode and clone out some of the vignetting that was inevitable to capture this view. I selected ISO 400 so that I could achieve 0.4 second shutter speed for my preferred definition to the flowing water in the dark, jungle environment.
Nikon D800
Nikon 12-24mm lens @ 17mm
ISO 400
f16 @ 0.4 second
tripod
Nikon polarizer
Live View to manually fine tune focus
Look forward to comments.
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Nice scene Andrew. I like the dynamic flow of the cascade, though I'm unsure whether I would have liked to see more jungle surrounds (whether the cascade is a bit TOO prominent)? Undecided...
I do feel some of the BG vegetation is borderline crunchy ito sharpening? Do you agree?
Love the hue of the water to the left. I was wondering about your lens choice for the D800 here before I read your explanation. What is your preferred landscape lens on the D800?
Welcome to the mod squad here in Landscapes, I am looking forward to helping the community improve their photography with you.
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Hi Andrew - Congrats on becoming a moderator. Nice use of ss to blur the water. I do wish there was a little more of the beautiful water on the lhs and I like the leaves floating for a bit of different color.
TFS,
Rachel
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Thanks very much Rachel and Morkel...much appreciated. Rachel I really did want to include more of the scene here but I was quite literally teetering on the edge of another cascade behind me 
Morkel, I do agree on the crunchiness...I have been playing around Nik's Detail Extractor lately and perhaps went a tad heavy on the BG here. I have been slow to upgrade my lenses for the D800 so I have been playing around with both the full frame and the DX crops on the camera. I do like the DX crop as it is kinda like having a built-in tele-canverter, especially for wildlife work. I find I am getting excellent results from my old 80-400, which is probably my favorite, I usually manually focus the lens in Live View for the landscapes and I will often use the DX 12-24mm as a 24mm full frame lens, but will trade this lens out for the new 18-35mm lens later this week...I have been hearing wonderful things about it.
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Congrates Andrew on new moderator
I really like the huge amount of water flowing through the image but would have preferred to see more as it's a little tight. Slow SS work very nicely to blur water.
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Hi Andrew, a big congrtulations on the moderator position
I like the falls, shutter speed, and the tropical feel to the jungle edges, though I agree this is a bit tight. The ultra beautiful backwater in the pool on the left draws the eye - I think because we all want to wade into it.
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Nicely seen Andrew, the energy of the water is strong, and I love the curve of rocks into the pool. Well done.
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Thanks Anette, Vivaldo, John & Jay...much appreciated. I will most certainly go wider upon a return trip to this river...hopefully next year...while composing the scene I did wish for something much wider. Anette, you are right rubber boots would not have helped as I was bare foot in the water and unable to take a step backwards
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Andrew, do check out the sharpening actions I linked to in the sticky thread at the top of the main landscape forum. I use them for most of my landscape shots and love the results.
I would recommend you get a high quality FX wide-angle like the 14-24mm or 16-35mm or even an ultra-wide prime in order to get the most out of that immense sensor
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This looks like a great location! I like how the water appears to be running right over the viewer. Cool perspective.