Carton House today, C and C please?

nicknackgtb

Hi there,

Just looking for some C and C on this shot please. It is the jpeg of this image that I brought into photoshop as im having some probs with opening CR2 atm. Thread up in 'The workshop if anyone can help"!

I am waiting on my ND filter to arrive so was just messing around with longer shutters!



Is there anyway I could improve on something like this?

Cheers,

Paddy

swingking

Nice photo. I like the blurring of the water with the chosen shutter speed.

I would crop a bit tighter focusing in on a part of the waterfall. Maybe bump up the contrast slightly to give some punch.

Well done otherwise

pullandbang

Get closer to the water and lose most of the green foreground grass. The bridge disappears out of the frame on the right making it look like it's been cut off. Underexpose it slightly to get some more detail in the white water.

nicknackgtb

Thanks for the comments so far. I'm having problems with CR2 files unfort so this was using jpeg to manipulate.

My other problem was that I only have 2 lenses at the minute, 50mm 1.8 and 70-200 sigma, so I cant really get closer unfortunately.

@pullandbang, thank you for the advice. your right about the bridge, but if i was to underexpose it, the trees would nearly be black though? The green would be nice out of the frame in the foreground now that you say it but due to lens constraints, not sure if it would be possible or not!

kelly1

nicknackgtb wrote: »

My other problem was that I only have 2 lenses at the minute, 50mm 1.8 and 70-200 sigma, so I cant really get closer unfortunately.

Huh?

BlastedGlute

pullandbang wrote: »

Get closer to the water and lose most of the green foreground grass.

Best advice right there. Go back to your framing and really try to decide on what needs to be in frame.

@Kelly, I think what he means is if he gets closer he will lose the length of the bridge and possibly the green hill. Which I guess the OP wants to keep in frame

kelly1

ok, that makes sense! Duh!

Effects

spooky donkey wrote: »

Also I used HDR (merged exposures) to get this effect.... might not be to every ones taste..

DaireQuinlan

spooky donkey wrote: »

Also I merged expousers to get this effect.... might not be to every ones taste..

It looks pretty awful TBH. The big blotchy sky really isn't doing it any favours. See if you can just gradient merge whatever exposure you have for the sky into the one in which you have the water looking the way you want it to or something.

monosnaps

There are nicer locations within Carton so do a quick search on Flickr which will give you some ideas, remember its a Golf course so visit on misty or frosty mornings when golf is cancelled and you might get better access and hopefully some more moody images.

magicbastarder

what the hell are Effects and DQ referring to?

DaireQuinlan

'SpookyDonkey' posted an image in the thread and then subsequently deleted their post.

Effects

Spooky D is still in the HDR hole, but I think he might be starting his recovery.

AnCatDubh

some good feedback above in terms of composition, etc...

when i saw this originally the thing that screamed out to me was - the day did you absolutely no favours. Capturing a scene like this needs great light, Yes use ND filters to enable the longer exposures and extract the flossy water from the scene, but head out early morning or prior to twilight.

I'm also seeing that there must be much more points of interest about the scene. As taken, it is a rather bland scene but i would think there must be much more points of interest around and about that scene if you could seek them out. Shoot low, shoot high. Explore the scene with your lens.

Needs more work imho and a retake with better light would really work better.

nicknackgtb

Thank you all v much for the C and C,

The time of day was that of about 4, and was only when brought it onto the computer that i thought the best time would be morning as the sun should be shining right on the waterfall. I might try sometime to head down there for morning and see how it comes out! bit hard when working in a pub and coming home at all hours!!

@monosnaps, would definately love to get down there on a misty morning sometime. was actually looking at shots on the net before i went out at misty landscapes and would love to visit there on one of those days!

I do have the problem with my focal restraints with my widest lens being 50mm!! hopefully in the near future i'll have something wider and be able to expand this.

I think I'm going to work on the c and c i have gotten from this and try and retake with all the comments in mind from here.

Appreciate your help as always.