Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Another waterfall shot

[karlo reyes]

its been a while since I last posted here. been busy lately, cheers!

Casaroro falls is hidden deep inside the province of Valencia. Going there you have to rent a van (pho600-1000/ 20$) or drive from Dumaguete City roughly around 12km away. There’s only so much road going to Casaroro falls then you have to walk/hike for another 20-30min to reach the entrance. There’s a fee worth 10bucks, just a small amount to help the local government preserve and maintain the surroundings.

The 350 STEPS traversing down Casaroro constitutes of lush greens, cool breeze and sound of birds echoing! This must be one of the tallest and awesome falls I’ve been too. I almost forgot about Hagimit haha. It’s so clean and the rock formations are just great! Now, The PAIN starts at 200 steps going up!

ISO 50 l 17mm l f11 l 8" l CPL l .9 NDGRAD SEl 5DMK2 l 17-40L

 

[Asher Kelman]

Karlo,

This is an interesting spot. I don't remember you going this far inland for water!

We have formidable energy in the water fall and then a pretty slow moving pond with little exchange. so this is not on the main flow of the water from the waterfall, I guess as it's so green. Are their fish or frogs to photograph too?

The waterfall is blown out with too much light. Is it possible you can recover the detail from RAW?

I do like the foreground rock which is almost a little fertile island to itself.

I'd have sought to take views to the left and right an this needs description of the pool. Another thought is the composition starts with the left hand border of the waterfall and then the main feature is the dead tree on the right with most of the bottom half cut away.

This is, as you see far more difficult to compose than coastal views which you seem to understand second nature.

Asher

 

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

It’s so clean and the rock formations are just great!

Hi Karlo,

I would have loved to see more rocks in the foreground to the left and right, a wider view. Especially at the left, I miss an enclosure of the water, it seems it's going to pour out of the image drawing too much attention. The eye should be kept from wandering out of the image.

Maybe you could consider stitching a horizontal 1 row pano for those situations where you need a bit wider view. Doing a panorama with foreground detail does require a bit of additional gear to avoid parallax, but it shouldn't have to weigh too much (a consideration when hiking).

Cheers,
Bart

 

[Asher Kelman]

ISO 50 l 17mm l f11 l 8" l CPL l .9 NDGRAD SEl 5DMK2 l 17-40L

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Karlo,

Returning to your picture I do find that the foreground is so strong with that isolated rock that t works as a keystone so to speak, for our minds. With that fixed, we build a real deep spatial feeling with a feeling of real dimension. To some extent, this helps the picture overcome its narrow and so visually restricted vertical form. It is just a fact of life, that wider lenses allow such scenes to be recorded far more efficiently. Then one can more easily cover the entire width of the scene as Bart rightly points out.

Having said that, the picture works well to the extent of giving us a sense of the magic of the place and I like it. Did you take more pictures of this scene? Did you also take them in RAW? since this wonderful location requires a considerable trek to get there, it's always a great idea to use as wide a lens as possible and cover adjacent parts you might not think you'll ever need.

As Bart has mentioned, stitching of close things can easily yield errors in matching the outlines of nearby objects as they move with respect to everything behind, (ie parallax error). One can overcome that to some extent by tying a small rock on a string to the front of your lens and have it hover over another small reference object on the ground. rotate the camera so that the front of the lens stays n the same position and is the center of rotation. That's a rough and ready method that sometimes can work. Another approach, if you have live view, is to rotate the camera in that way, checking that the objects in line with each other don't move in opposite directions as you rotate the camera around and imaginary point in the front of your lens.

Asher

 

[karlo reyes]

thanks guys for the cc i appreciate it a lot. Yes asher it is blownout i tried to expose everything but ended up overexposing the falls. I can use 2 exposures and use layers to bring out detail in the waterfalls but at that time my battery is depleting when i reached the location. oh well.

i did desaturate the cyan color of the water in there -25. A lot of interesting subject in there but i can only shoot that much since I'm restricted with the terrain. This is shot in raw and I have yet to study how to do panoramic shots.

 

[Wayne Stratton]

Breathless. Wow! I love the smoothness in the water and the color. To me, this picture is perfect! Fantastic!