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Shower of Aphrodite
Shower of Aphrodite
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Challenge: Free Study XI (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX
Location: Keweenaw Peninsula, MI
Date: Apr 30, 2006
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/8
Galleries: Nature, Water
Date Uploaded: Apr 30, 2006

 Some dodge
some burn
a level
a hue
some sharpen
some clone

"NAIADS: The Stream and River NYMPHS.

These lovely ladies are the sparkly HYDRIADS of running waters, babbling brooks, silvery streams and rippling rivers.

Being spirits of individual streams, they tend to be loyal to their locality, and often seem to end up marrying or otherwise dallying with the local king or hero. They are also on hand to rescue maidens in distress; some of them used to be maidens in distress themselves.

They take a very dim view of water pollution. Take your rubbish home with you or face the consequences!"

Statistics
Place: 21 out of 211
Avg (all users): 6.5236
Avg (commenters): 6.8333
Avg (participants): 6.1944
Avg (non-participants): 6.9518
Views since voting: 2186
Views during voting: 344
Votes: 191
Comments: 25
Favorites: 3 (view)

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 09/14/2006 07:17:48 PM
Very nice JP! Congrat' on almost top 20!
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 08/27/2006 09:41:52 AM
I really like this one!! I love the color of the rocks!!! The autumn feel about the picture, warm colors that snap!! Great Job
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 07/21/2006 03:25:03 PM
Perfect choice for shutter speed. I really like you you can see individual 'threads' of the water without them all being blurred together. Nice PP work, as well
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 05/18/2006 02:59:04 PM
"some dodge, some burn." "Some talent" i say. Nice picture with a great range of colors. Perfect exposure lenghth for just the right amount of water blur. I also like the heavy vignetting.
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 05/11/2006 08:36:16 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Very nice exposure we have here :)
You have the colors, sharpnes and shutter speed juuust right, much longer or shorter would only have been worse.

But What I don't get here is how the corners could get so dark. Well they kinda put the focus on the waterfall but it would have been nice to make the WHOLE picture with all 4 corners in on it aswell :)

I think waterfalls allways score good on DPC and I believe you have a good waterfall picture going on here, congratulations on your score and I hope I helped a litle with my critique

Have a great day!
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 05/07/2006 08:27:48 PM
Lovely place. Did you take a dip in it? How could you not? (unless it was cold).

Not a bad placement either. Congrats on the high finish.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/07/2006 06:57:32 PM
nice colors on the rocks
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 05/07/2006 12:20:48 PM
Some vignetting on the edges, but a nice photo.
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 05/07/2006 08:55:42 AM
Superb colors here.
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 05/07/2006 04:57:50 AM
Very good and sharp image with lovely colours.
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 05/07/2006 04:28:36 AM
wow! stunning...hope you ribbon 9
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 05/05/2006 03:36:59 PM
A wee overdone with burning, but great lines with water - not too blurred.
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 05/05/2006 02:20:56 PM
A nice scene and a well composed shot. Beautiful colors and the waterfall looks very good.
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 05/04/2006 07:52:35 AM
Nice use of vignetting to frame the subject.
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 05/03/2006 09:21:42 PM
Very nice post processing.
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 05/03/2006 07:35:58 PM
I really love the peaceful feeling I get from this scene. 8
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 05/03/2006 05:44:11 PM
Great falls...7
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 05/03/2006 06:40:16 AM
Lovely waterfall, I may have cropped this thigher so that the slow shutter speed didn't blur so much of the foreground.
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 05/03/2006 03:54:07 AM
Magical waterfall.....
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 05/02/2006 12:40:32 PM
I am not normally a big fan of soft water shots (even though I post them myself more than I should(, but this is a pleasing capture. Well composed and noce, crisp focus. There is a bit too much vingetting, perhaps from the lens ot perhpas from camera RAW, that darkens the edges too much. A different crop could easily fix this.
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 05/01/2006 07:19:03 PM
Range of color is really great in this photo! Very nice!
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 05/01/2006 03:01:04 PM
Very good use of the light. Like the colours.
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 05/01/2006 06:54:06 AM
Wow was the first thing that came to my mind , after examining the photo I would have prefer it with the bottom cropped to give more importance to the water falling , really nice with the rusted colors and greens.
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 05/01/2006 05:22:33 AM
Beautiful waterfall. You might consider a much smaller crop to eliminates the out of focus foreground water.
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 05/01/2006 03:12:37 AM
Nice colours in the rock formations..I like it a lot
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