ima not too sure how this will fair, prolly not to well, but i spent forever climbing down a path to take this picture, which turned out to be one of many, and then i spent even longer climbing back up to the road... pretty much ima entering it because it was a lot of work to take... haha
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i love shooting falls. i think by looking at this shot, you can figure out how you'd shoot it again, as this photo looks like a bit of a rough draft. too much bright sky, water hightlights blown out...i think the scene could be alot more intimate just by getting the bright sky outta there. nice little location though, it looks like.
Hello, and greetings from the Critique Club. The critique you are about to recieve is tailored for DPC challenges alone, and is not intended to be seen as an artistic critique per se.
Initial Thoughts
Whooops.. wrong challenge.
Composition / Content
While it's a fairly decent shot of a waterfall (That log really takes away though, for this particular composition), it's not a portrait in the eyes of DPC.. and that's the most important factor. Still, entering simply because you had to work so hard to get the photo takes some guts, so I salute that.
Background
Some blow outs in the sky, and a bit oversaturated in the brush.
Camera Work / Technical
Some overexposures and blown highlights, but focus is nice.
Digital Processing
*slightly* oversharpened to my eyes, and the saturation is still a little high in the yellows and greens.
Fits the Challenge
Not even close.. and I'm *trying* to give an out-of-the-box latitude here.. but .. hehe.. this isn't even in the same country.
My Opinion of the Photo
Like I said, a fairly decent photo of a waterfall marred by the log and the blown highlights, (and possibly too much space up top), but an absolute miss on the challenge. You know this however, and I salute your moxy for submitting it in the first place. Enjoy the brown ribbon :)
Hmmm....hmmm....
OK, well, though the color is bright, the highlights are quite blown-out, and overall it looks somewhat oversharpened, particularly in the upper part of the photo.
For portraits, though, I really prefer to see more of the subjects face, so perhaps a MUCH tighter crop on the face (wherever it is) would be a more powerful portrait presentation.
At first glance, it looked like the log is sitting on top of the wterfall at the left from the angle you shot the photo. Pretty scene though. Honestly, hard for me to score after seeing so many people portraits.....
Nice take on the challenge, just think the log across the front is just too in your face kinda thing! Sounds silly, but I don't know how else to put it!! My eyes keep going to the log and not the beautiful falls behiind..
I dunno... it just doesn't fit the theme for me. I've seen portraits of animals and thought it was nice "outside the box thinking". But a waterfall...? It's a beautiful image, just not what I would call a portrait (which almost always is strictly of humans).
P.S.
Just so that I know that I'm not totally off base, I looked up the word portrait in Merriam Websters Online Dictionary and found this definition:
1 : PICTURE; especially : a pictorial representation (as a painting) of a person usually showing the face
Lovely shot, my only improvment might be a bit of burning at the top edge to keep the eye from wandering off the top of the page. Lovely color and tones. Of course it will probably get hammered since the subject is not a head and sholders shot with one hand supporting the chin, but it is a lovely photograph
This is simply classic. Freaking awesome shot, but....yeah, I know everybody else has already told you. It does meet the description at least, just not the title. Sorry to say, but I think you should expect a brown, but be proud of that. Classic, just classic
so this is a "portrait" of the falls?!? nice shot, I'll give you a 5 for that. If it had a human or at least animal being in it, I'd score it even higher.
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