'Thats Life'
by jamesfrater

Comment by hotpasta:
wow, great capture, great title...excellent

tula river
by jamesfrater

Comment by Venom:
The river feels like it's tipped over to the left a little. Lovely motion shot thought; nice. -BB

tula river
by jamesfrater

Comment by bauerfan71:
Nice capture and processing, the water conveys movement without being too soft.

tula river
by jamesfrater

Comment by hotpasta:
the exposure is just right for the right amount of movement...needs a bit of a photoshop boost to bring out the colours as the light is quite flat

tula river
by jamesfrater

Comment by Dr.Confuser:
You've nicely captured the floing water.

tula river
by jamesfrater

Comment by Connor:
nice shot, love the rocks in the forgound

tula river
by jamesfrater

Comment by digifotojo:
would have liked to seen te water with a slightly slower shutter.

tula river
by jamesfrater

Comment by rlewis:
The angle strikes me as odd, although conventions are made to be broken...you usually do not want water running out the corner of an image which happens twice in this one. The colors and lighting are good.

early bird
by jamesfrater

Comment by ericwoo:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: Great job stopping the action in the shot. That 1/4000 shutter speed did this one justice. I also like the low noise you managed, even with an ISO of 640. Your background coloring is also very nice, and is one of strengths of the image.

Lighting: The backlighting you managed here is spectacular. I like the glow you caught in the wings, as well as the nicely silhouetted figure of the bird.

Composition/Content: I think that I will agree with Pedro in that the image would have been even stronger with some of the negative space and color graduation cropped from the bottom. Perhaps a square crop would have worked better than the light that falls into darkness at the bottom.

My Opinion: 6.27 is a very strong score, and I think that it was an appropriate score for this image. Looking through the challenge entries for this one, I believe that your entry placed appropriately.

Thank you for the opportunity to provide a critique on your entry,
Eric

early bird
by jamesfrater

Comment by Nforsberg:
awesome shot. I love how the birds wingtips are translucent like that.