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Majestic Niagara Falls
Majestic Niagara Falls
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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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Comments: 9
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AuthorThread
 06/27/2007 12:07:23 AM
Thanks everyone. I wasn't sure if Curves was allowed in Basic Editing.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/26/2007 07:07:59 PM
cool photo! not much negative space, but my eye kind of creates it. interesting effect.
 06/26/2007 05:56:43 PM
needs a bit more contrast, but cool shot
 06/26/2007 05:32:14 PM
Great use of space to accentuate scale. Like the muted tones too. This kind of took me back for a second, nice one.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/26/2007 05:17:36 PM
what a great perspective. the awesomeness of nature!
 06/25/2007 05:51:11 PM
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.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/23/2007 12:28:42 AM
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.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/21/2007 05:35:32 PM
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).
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/20/2007 06:02:48 PM
Man I love this place... I was one of the blue specs at one time. difficult shot that you did a nice job on.


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