The Flow

Eldorado Springs. The snow still hasn't melted up there, I almost busted my ass trying to take a picture.

Again, critiques, edits welcome.
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6...sthismiih5.jpg

Although some of the stones in dark could benefit from better details, i think this is beautifully executed... the creamy water, and how it mixes with the snow make for a quite an interesting photograph...

No doubt you almost busted your ass :D

Nice job,

Marc

Though it does seem a little dark in the foreground and personaly I would give it a PS boost, the compostion and subject is wonderful and well worth the ass busting. Great picture.
Greg

Thanks guys, and I took you up on the brightening of the image, and here it is:
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/923...sthismiil4.jpg

I prefer the first one as there is less blow out in the snow. Perhaps take the original and make a curves adjustment to the darks to bring in the detail without blowing out the whites?

I love the framing and the subject so this is definitely worth a little bit mroe work to get it perfect. Great shot.

Thanks for the comments guys.

very nice as it is.. but where desktop photography is concerned no image will ever be good enough.. u can play for ever..

trog

Thankfully I still have the RAW.

I warmed it up a bit and upped the saturation with the RAW, and let's see what you guys think:

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/5...sthismiqj2.jpg

I only would of adjusted the curves, just to lighten up the dark areas a just tad, so you could see just a little more detail.

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/7...dodgingla2.jpg

Yeah...i like that last edit... and i think that this is the maximum you can do without hurting the image....

:D good job!

Marc

Thanks, I added a tiny bit of warmth too, and I like it more than the others.

I tried to HDR it and then tone map it, this is the result:
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/9...sthismijk5.jpg

Well as you can see in the HDR, you are able to see more detail in the rocks, and it lost that sombre look... There is a lot of possibility in Post to fix things, and you will always need to do post work.... we just try to get the best we can with the camera, and then work things out!

Final result is pretty good!

I still need to learn a wee bit of HDR, but it just doesn't strike as too important at the moment!

Marc

Thanks for the support Marc.