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Beautiful shot. Fabulous water.
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The water colour is very believable and I've actually seen it even more coloured. The water wash away sediment, dissolve minerals and acquire all sorts of colours.
The saturation is perhaps a tad too much. But worse the top left corner is a soft murky disaster. CA is in your face too. But it is still hundreds of miles ahead of the suggested edit.
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It's a strong composition with a feeling of the force of the water rather than the cotton wool we seem to always see these days. I agree with @LongLensPhotography fully.
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Thanks for all the comments, always nice when a photo creates interesting conversation.
As a matter of interest this shot was tricky to compose, I had to sit on the edge of the rocks and hold the camera with one hand arm extended looking at the screen to get the composition and press the shutter at the right moment.
It was taken with an A7R2 + 12mm Voigtlander lens. One problem was the spray from the waterfall meant I had to be quick, basically extend the camera get the composition ASAP before any water got on the lens and shoot. It took about 6 shots to get this composition, the other 5 weren't quite right. I didn't realise at the time but the shutter speed was 1/10, it was a good speed to give the water a mild blur without overdoing it but also resulted in some motion blur, it's actually not very sharp, It looks OK but when I zoomed in to sharpen it I was very disappointed to see motion blur, I wasn't going to do anything with the photo because of it but I did like the composition and other aspects of the photo so decided to make it a keeper anyway.
The CV12 is a cracking lens, (manual everything), very, sharp, great detail and rendition but can be prone to CA's, I thought I'd cleaned them up but it must have got overlooked.
On the processing side, I used LR initially then used NIK Colour Effects Pro 4 to bring out more detail and contrast etc. While I like the effect the NIK software can produce I'm still learning it and it can cause halo's and other unwanted anomalies if your not careful.
As a matter of interest this shot was tricky to compose, I had to sit on the edge of the rocks and hold the camera with one hand arm extended looking at the screen to get the composition and press the shutter at the right moment.
It was taken with an A7R2 + 12mm Voigtlander lens. One problem was the spray from the waterfall meant I had to be quick, basically extend the camera get the composition ASAP before any water got on the lens and shoot. It took about 6 shots to get this composition, the other 5 weren't quite right. I didn't realise at the time but the shutter speed was 1/10, it was a good speed to give the water a mild blur without overdoing it but also resulted in some motion blur, it's actually not very sharp, It looks OK but when I zoomed in to sharpen it I was very disappointed to see motion blur, I wasn't going to do anything with the photo because of it but I did like the composition and other aspects of the photo so decided to make it a keeper anyway.
The CV12 is a cracking lens, (manual everything), very, sharp, great detail and rendition but can be prone to CA's, I thought I'd cleaned them up but it must have got overlooked.
On the processing side, I used LR initially then used NIK Colour Effects Pro 4 to bring out more detail and contrast etc. While I like the effect the NIK software can produce I'm still learning it and it can cause halo's and other unwanted anomalies if your not careful.