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by sulamk

Comment by briphoto:
Your photo looks out of focus, or maybe it's just grainy? NIce try though!

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Comment by Lustre:
I think that perhaps your white balance is a little bit off. I think the image would have been better if the sign was brighter (perhaps a different time of day).

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Comment by LindaLee:
This photo looks a little dark on my monitor, and is somewhat fuzzy. It also appears that the photo is severely oversharpened, giving it a kind of odd look.

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Comment by ChrisW123:
Out of focus I think. Plus you should have over-exposed this shot a little to lighten up the sign.

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Comment by PaulMdx:
I like the idea and composition. For me it's a little dark and seems to be slightly blurred. 5

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Comment by aurora:
Like the humour in the title,picture is nice too.

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Comment by daxo:
funny sign...

Waterfall
by sulamk

Comment by jmsetzler:
Greetings from the Critique Club :)

Hi Sulamk! I received your email and I feel lucky to have gotten your photo to critique. This will be an example of the types of critiques we are looking for in the Critique Club...

I love a waterfall. I enjoy photographing them myself and here are a few examples of some I have done in the past:

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I think you did a great job of capturing this particular waterall in the context of the 'landscape' challenge. Your vista in this particular shot covers the waterfall and plenty of surrounding land as well :)

One of the things about this image that I particularly like is the color contrasts. The blue sky / red rocks / greenery work very well together in this image. The waterfall itself is just a nice single element that makes this image stand out. I believe that all great landscape shots, contrary to the finishing order in the challenge this week, need some single 'strong' element for the viewer's eye to come to rest on. Your waterfall profides that to me in this image.

As for a possible improvement on this image...

I'm looking at your camera settings. My personal preference on waterfall photos, as shown in my examples, is 'soft' water created by a slower shutter speed with the camera. There is a simple trick to getting this. Your aperture was set to F4.5 and a shutter speed of 1/160". Without knowing any better, I would assume that this was a 'point and shoot' shot taken with the default camera settings.

If you had chosed aperture priority and setup with a smaller aperture (larger F number), your shutter speed would have slowed down some which would have created 'softer' water in this shot. You can also get even longer shutter speeds in a situation like this by using a polarizer or a neutral density filter on your camera.

For more information about shutter and aperture priority photo modes, take a look at my tutorial on DPC at:

Controlling Your Exposure

This tutorial explains how aperture and shutter priority affect your images...

Keep up the good work and I will be in touch with some links for you on critiques very soon :)

John Setzler

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Comment by Cub:
Focus is off, contrast seems a bit hars, and it could have been a little brighter.. Cub

Waterfall
by sulamk

Comment by alanfreed:
Wow -- what a great spot! I wish I lived near something like that! -10