This is the first stage of Chunchi Falls, about 75km from Bangalore. There wasn't much water due to a dam upstream. But i liked the rock formations and carvings that are again a handy work of water! Appreciate your views and comments.
EXIF: D700, 70-200mmL @200mm + 1.4x TC, 1s, f/22, ISO 200, ND filter, later morning, tripod mount
PP: Curves, Levels, fill-light for the shadows.
Hi Ramesh,
Excellent suggestions by Robert here.....just balancing out the tones a bit, will greatly strengthen the impact here. I think once you bring up the shadow area a bit more.....the water level will be fine! Compositionally you framed the water nicely with the rocks. This one has very nice potential.....so just try tweaking it a bit.
Hi Ramesh,
Had a moment to play.....quickly did 3 levels layers of different amounts on the brighter rocks and 1 in the shadow area. Added a bit of black in selective color to give a bit of pop and some H/S.....becuase I knew I would lose some of it in the second compression which was saved at 67 quality to make it fit.
Let me know what you think.
Ramesh,
I love the rocks. The slow shutter speed gives the water a nice flowing feeling. Compositionally it is nice. However, the rocks are much brighter than th water and the shadow part, and hence attracts all attention. Your ND filter is how many stops?
The others have covered all of the ways to make this even better Ramesh. It is a wonderful scene that hopefully you can go back to and capture using some of the suggestions above. In this lighting you could also attempt some HDR work if you have multiple images at different exposures of the scene. While not always workable HDR can generate some wonderful images.
Thanks a lot, Robert, Roman (*2), Sabyasachi and Rich for your suggestions to improve this and Roman, again for showing the way. The reworked image has a lot of punch to it and illustrates the potential. Robert and Roman, i will go through the tutorial and work on this image.
Sabya, my ND filter has upto 8 stops and i set it around 6th for this image.
Rich, yes, i am will go back to this place and give it another try. Of course, there is the bigger falls to explore too. I am hoping for some more water to be there;-)
Thanks again gentlemen for your time.
regards,
ramesh
Last edited by Ramesh Adkoli; 08-09-2009 at 11:19 PM.
I refered the tutorial by Robert and also perused the suggestions made by you all and reworked on the image from scratch and learnt a lot in the process. Here is the result. Appreciate you views on this repost.
Hi Ramesh,
I like your re-post! You did a very nice job with the suggestions and opening up of the shadows.....maybe a bit more toning down of the top/whitish rock........but all in all very nice job with the rework! Strengthened even more a very nice comp.
Thanks Roman. I am glad you found the repost to your liking. Following Robert and your guidance has been a great learning experience for me. I am grateful to you both.