Very cool work here. Even with that change of light, there is still a magical quality to this light and colors.
If I were to try anything different it would be to get rid of the rocks in the water in the lower right to get the water to be able to flow out of the frame unhindered. Maybe a combination of cropping and warping them out?
Jim
Oh, come on Jim. The shot looks like the place there. I just read some of the dumbest comments I've seen on reddit were someone post this photo on a front page. People are missing the point for crying out loud. I mean some guys don't know why the water looks the way it does. I explained I used a filter etc. I won't even bother replying, what for? Still, I'm not going to be removing rocks because they were there and I want them there. But if YOU were to take this shot Jim, and decided to remove rocks on the right it's your God given right and you could do that. I just happen to like them there
On a workshop there was a Geologist from Canada with me. He said some of these rocks are around 2 Million years old. He fond petrified trees there too. I took a few shots of them because of their age alone.
Anyway, these black rocks are there for a long time and I think they should stay on my pics too.
You posted another one, please stop my wallet begs you!
They are both great shots with a slight preference for this one.
Really looking forward to the next one.
i like this one better, the other was awesome, but this is perfection, I like this cropping with more on the right and the water and rocks not chopped off and I like the fact that it didn't have the artifical glow thing applied.
Gregg B. wrote:
Oh, come on Jim. The shot looks like the place there. I just read some of the dumbest comments I've seen on reddit were someone post this photo on a front page. People are missing the point for crying out loud. I mean some guys don't know why the water looks the way it does. I explained I used a filter etc. I won't even bother replying, what for? Still, I'm not going to be removing rocks because they were there and I want them there. But if YOU were to take this shot Jim, and decided to remove rocks on the right it's your God given right and you could do that. I just happen to like them there
On a workshop there was a Geologist from Canada with me. He said some of these rocks are around 2 Million years old. He fond petrified trees there too. I took a few shots of them because of their age alone.
Anyway, these black rocks are there for a long time and I think they should stay on my pics too. ...Show more →
Ha ha... Well for the record... I didn't say Clone them out... I said to crop them out and maybe tug at them a bit with the warp tool...
But... if you like them there (and I didn't say they looked bad, just trying to think outside the box a bit. Though I will admit they did tug at my brain a bit... )... that's the most important part.
I just want to say that you guys here are all great photographers and your opinion matter to me a lot. I encourage you to take these wallets out and just go there. No regrets. The place is majestic. For the record this is a hotel location/place (on this island) I was staying at in Chile. One of my friends took this shot with an iPhone as an HDR. As you can see you could just walk a bit from the hotel and take the shot I took. There isn't even a need to drive. I'd spend a month in Chile alone. There's so much to this place, it's not even fair
Thank you all very much. I hope someone will go with me next year on my own workshop but even if you go by yourself or other photographer's workshop it'll be a trip of a lifetime. And, please don't sleep at night (you flight will be a night) when you fly over Brazil you will see the best thunderstorms in the world. Just amazing what's going on there...
Greg
Nice! When I was there couple of years ago, the grass on the hills across the water was all burnt from an accidental fire. Great to see nature has healed itself again.
Gregg,
Another lovely capture. (Same for the hotel!) Personally I would get rid of the tips of those 3 rocks in the foreground. To me they are an unnecessary distraction to what is otherwise a magnificent photo.
Dave
