Creek images take 2 - now with added gumboots!

[owen]

Hey fellas, went back to the dreaded creek today but this time I had a secret weapon - some gumboots from bunnings! After reviewing these images I thought I could have done better, but I'll share them anyway.

Feel free to leave a comment, no matter how nasty it is

Cheers,
Owen.

[christiand]

Hi Owen,

I like the 2nd photo.
The focus starts at the front, then slowly fades as the scene continues
into the distance.
The composition is also in tune with the focus, it follows.

regards,
Christian

[sheepie]

OK - first, let me say the colours you have here are AMAZING!!!

With that out of the way...

1. I really like this, but I think what lets it down a little is the highlights in the water at the bottom. Not sure what you could do about them - maybe some local treatment with a dodge tool perhaps? The other thing you could do would be crop it just below the big clump of grass - just b4 the bright rock comes into view.

2. I think would benefit from a crop at the top, so the sky behind treeline is left out. Personally I would also have got rid of the red leaf.

3. Works better without the foreground - it's a little bare, and you appear to loose the sharpness in the closest rocks

4. LOVE the clarity and colour on this - really nice

What are you doing with the colours? Because it is working amazing things

Hope all that helps - remember it's just my opinion, which in the end may not count for much

[owen]

Thanks for the comments Christian and Sheepie.

I took several shots with the polariser on the camera, but in the first image it wasn't polarising, I took one with the reflection reduced and that looks okay, except you lose the movement in the water so I didn't think it was as interesting. I didn't try a half-polarised shot, I should have! Doh!

With the colours to be honest the images out of the cam have been really flat and dull lately, I may have to have a fiddle with the settings a bit more. In PP I have been using the Velvia Vision plugin, it seems to do a little bit more than a saturation boost and is quite effective. However, it can't fix composition so I'll have to get out and take more shots!

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

Cheers,
Owen.