Challenge:Negative Space III (Basic Editing) Camera:Canon EOS-20D Location: Niagara Falls, Ontario Date: Jun 17, 2007 Aperture: f/22 ISO: 400 Shutter: 1/640 Date Uploaded: Jun 17, 2007
Maid of the Mist
Lens 70-300mm Tamron @ 81mm
Tried capturing the boat with the Falls as a wall of water and the mist acting as a blend between the vertical and horizontal water planes. Hope this constitutes good use of negative space.
Minor postwork- Raw conversion. Removal of sensor dust. Sharpen.
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Now this is where the neg space creates the wow factor but the technicals aren't great on it. Some suggestions that may or may not work... increase contrast and midtones; increase color in the water (probably green or cyan?). Of course these may not work because you may end up blowing out Niagera in places but you may be able to compensate that by decreasing highlights. The whole thing just looks too hazy for me which is what I would try to overcome in pp if it were my shot.
This is quite interesting. I love the composition and the textures. Wonder if you could have pulled a bit more contrast. The mist is making it look a bit flat when we know it isn't. Nice job.
Good subject and appropriate use of negative space. A bit of post processing would make this look a lot better (I just tried a simple auto curves and found it made a big difference to the colour and clarity of this photo).
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