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    I created this image on a recent trip to the Giant's Castle region of the South African Drakensberg.

    It was a lovely morning - yet some more dramatic cloud cover would have been very welcome :(.

    This is a blend of 2 exposures. All critique welcome...

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    I love the dynamic range you managed in just 2 exp's here Morkel, beautiful arid colouring.
    More cloud cover would have enhanced for sure, but like as presented.
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    thanks Marc...this area is probably now lush and green as this was shot right at the end of Winter...:)
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    Hey Morkel,
    I like the comp here with the boulder balancing the bush and even the hills. I think the shadow line intersecting the rock...almost in line with the top draws my eye a bit too much.....so did you take one a few minutes later? Just the way the shadow lines up is somewhat bothersome. Nice job with the blend though and did you get to do any of the vultures?

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    Nice balanced image , the river running though really helps, nice job. Did you get a diifernt angle with the rock to the left and the river running though the whole image?

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    Hi Morkel, nice light but IMO the foreground totally overpowers the image being hard to get past the rock and bush. My eye cannot help going back to it. I like Dennis' idea regarding the rock on the left and showing the whole river.

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    thanks for the kind comments Roman, Dave & Curly...

    I wasn't able to get a perspective with the large boulder to the LHS since this was the edge of a precipice... :(

    I also couldn't wait for later light with regards to the shadow as we had to pack up and head to our next destination. I unfortunately didn't get a place in the vulture hide, which is why I staked out the landscapes.
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    Hi Morkel, this looks like a very nice location. I like the way you composed this one, but agree with Roman regarding the shadow line and rock. I wonder if you punched up the contrast a bit on the distant mountains would the foreground be less over-powering as Dave mentions. Overall I still like the image though.

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    I like the composition and placement of the rock and bush. And Roman caught the shadow line interesting the rock so I can't beat you up for that Morkel :p.

    Andrew had a good suggestion on increasing contrast on the BG.

    To me I would have liked to see sharpness from front to back - even if you had the focus stack two images to get it.

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    thanks for the comments Andrew & Robert...

    Robert - the image is sharp right through at large size, I might have just been selective with sharpening after resizing due to the size of the image? :D
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