Taken with a tripod, polarizer filter and a 103 ND filter and ambient light. Taken at about 35mm.
Nothing big in photoshop but thank god that this was an member challenge with advanced rules. The sun was not in the right place and I didn´t have time to wait for it so I overexposed the cliffs slightly but the waterfall was still pretty dark. Almost all of my shots are .raw so I used a .raw double exposure to make one file where the cliffs were exposed correctly and one with +1 exposure compensation to make the waterfall in the shadows a bit brighter. Then I used layers and erase brush to bring them together. However I didn´t add any shadows at all in the waterfall so those dark areas in the waterfall stream are cliffs that are there. In the lower right corner there was a big shadow though and I cloned in more growth there and rocks in the bottom, nothing major though. Finally used curves and unsharp mask to increase contrast and sharpen.
The person in the shot is my fried Ragnar who also posed for me in my entry in "passing time" Reading the newspaper. We specifically drove out to this waterfall to take a shot for this challenge and it´s about a 70 minute drive from Reykjavik. I am pretty sure this waterfalls name is "Gljufrarbogi" and it´s right next to Seljalandsfoss. Anyway, the drive was pretty fun, Ragnar had just recently bought a Volvo XC90 and I got to drive the way back home, I can tell you that was a pretty smooth ride so no complaints here :o).
This shot didn´t turn out exactly as I wanted it to but it´s close enough, if only I had been there when the sun shone directly into the waterfall but that´s life. Anyway, I spent too much time on this not to submit it but I am not really expecting anything with it. Hope you like it.
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Ég skoðaði ekki allar myndirnar í þessari keppni arghhh er komin aftur með innhringingartengingu, þessi mynd er stórfengleg þó eins og þú segir var ljósið ekki hliðhollt í þetta skiptið og vantar meira contrast, vesen...þú verður bara að fara þarna aftur og hafa sólina í hádegisstöðu.
A very interesting find and well shot with the blur in the water. However, I find the composition a little uninteresting. Perhaps a little too centred, even though I tend to compose most of my shots like that.
This would be awesome if your suject (the person I'm guessing, is the subject??) was inside the frame. I'm also guessing that the crack in the rocks are the frame but maybe the rocks are the frame??? Anyway, I still like it. 7 I'll need to get back to you on this one in the bumping phase.
it seems like the main subject of your image (assuming its the waterfall from the title) is dark and unimposing as it is, but when you add the person to the foreground, it makes it very difficult to focus on the waterfall, and instead I find my eyes wandering down to the person.
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