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Hey Frank,
These are a step ahead from your Bushkill shots. Good job on working on your technique. Much better lighting in these, they don't have that same snapshot feel of your previous ones.
Now a couple more things to focus on in the future... your focus... You will see in several of these that you have leaves that are out of focus, like in #5. I think #5 would be my favorite, but you have those out of focus leaves on the left edge that hurt. Now in a shot like #5, I would just crop off that edge. And perhaps crop off the right side a bit to lose those couple of leaves poking in on the right. Which leads me to another suggestion, always check your edges of your composition. Like in #1, the bottom right corner, what's poking in and breaking up your nice flow of water? Some leaves. So try to compose with corners/edges with items poking into a scene, but if they still do, be sure to crop/clone to remove those distractions.
Also, the other one thing I see in several of these photos is soft leaves from movement of the leaves. Often one of the hardest things about shooting waterfalls is the leaves moving, either from wind, or air movement generated from the waterfall. The solution usually is to shoot the scene at multiple shutter speeds. One with a slow shutter speed for the water. Now you can often try to wait for a moment of calm to shot where the leaves aren't moving. Sometimes that works. But most often what you will want to do is shoot a couple of shots where you have increased the shutter speed to be fast enough to freeze the leaves in place. Then you can while processing, blend out the blurry areas of the slow shutter speed shot with the sharp leaves from the faster shot.
Definitely a step forward from the Bushkill shots. Keep working on it. Waterfalls, for all of their beauty are not easy to photograph, and can be quite challenging in reality.
Jim
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