Photographer’s Notes In southern Iceland, there is an incredible waterfall at Skogar (Skogafoss). This is a waterfall on an incredible scale and it is approachable on foot to within a few meters of where the water plunges into a pool and flows away as a small river. It is easy to fill the fram with the falling water.
I recognize this may be a somewhat abstract image. Voters here often punish abstracts. And I recognize some voters may wonder if the people are the subject and declare DNMC because they don’t fill the frame. The people are there to provide scale. They cannot be the subject since I don’t know them and clearly they don’t fill the frame.
Interestingly, although advanced editing is allowed in this challenge, I used almost no editing at all.
Post Processing • Rotate
• Crop
• Color Correct (Curves Layer)
• Dodge and Burn (Overlay Layer)
• Resize
• Save for Web
Camera Data • Date: 2007:08:20
• Exposure Time: 1/200
• F-Stop: 11.0
• Exposure Program: Aperture Priority
• ISO Speed Rating: 100
• Focal Length: 120 MM
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The waterfall fills the frame, but the people become the subject, just by being there. Crop the people out and you get an interesting abstract that does, indeed, fill the frame.
fantastic dramatic image .. i cant imagine this not getting a ribbon .. if the people werent in the shot i'd have no idea the size of this awesome piece of nature .. perfect in every way .. =10
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