Photo "Stream(1)"

peter o neill #1 Tue 11 Dec 2001 15:16

Very nice image

Alex Kirkovsky #2 Tue 11 Dec 2001 20:03

I like it. Fresh bright colors with fine details..

Mike Baldwin #3 Thu 13 Dec 2001 02:46

I much prefer this to your Stream (2). There is more of the blurry water and the exposure and colours are handled well. There is a nice `path` through the picture via the stones...even that brown rock top right plays its part!

Peter Schwarz #4 Sat 22 Dec 2001 04:34

Again wonderful image with clear natural colors - Great composition - Excellent!

Nomad #5 Tue 22 Mar 2005 12:06

Beautiful scene!

The only thing I`d say in critique is that "mushy" look of the green bushes does no good to the photo, having everything except the water crisp-sharp works better for this kind of photos. But getting such shots absolutely perfect is a big challenge since you need both long exposure time and zero relative motion (compare to the size of the moving objects) of the surroundings, which means either shooting with absolutely no wind or having larger objects in frame (e.g. something with large leaves). As remedy for this particular shot, you could try much longer exposure, so that bushes will be rendered in more noticible motion and not as mere defect. Or may be simply you haven`t got enough DOF - with this lens and such distances to near and far subjects you`d need around f/16-f/22 at least to get everything sharp.