My wife and I made a short trip to the Finger Lakes region of New York State and spent two days birding and one day hiking to waterfalls. One of our stops was Taughannock Falls, a 215 foot ribbon cascade off of a 400 foot cliff. It's a lovely walk in on a gravel trail in the woods along side the river to reach the base of the falls.
To get the look of the photo I took a few bursts of the falling water looking for an image where the wind moved the falling water in an interesting way. I then added contrast with an S curve and saved the image. Then I did a B&W of the image adding contrast the same way. Last I placed each image in a layer in Photoshop with the B&W on top and blended to taste to show a touch of color.
Comments and suggestions welcome,
Morris
X-H2SXF70-300mmF4-5.6 R LM OIS WR lens75mmf/4.01/110s1600 ISO-0.7 EV
That is a very interesting shot... as I looked at it I wondered "why is this different, why is it so much better than many standard compositions with waterfalls?" and then I read the post and I understood. Well done.
