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Published: 2012-05-04 01:31:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 969; Favourites: 83; Downloads: 0
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This was taken at McLaren Falls Park, near Tauraunga, on North Island , New Zealand. It shows the pathway through the bush to reach the waterfall.Thank you so much for viewing my work.
To everyone that favourites any of my work, please accept in advance my sincere thanks for doing so. For those that comment on this or any other photograph, you will always recieve a reply. Demands on my time may mean a delay on occassions in responding, but I will always reply. Thank you for visiting this page, the support of all visitors is truly appreciated. Simon
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I love how, in my eyes, the color green pops out of the photo~! Wonderful!
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thank you very much indeed my friend really appreciated
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Lovely, dreamlike capture Simon ~ perhaps vaguely spooky with the reddish cast, but I think this gives the scene a somewhat mysterious mood. 
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CoCo thank you my friend always appreciated
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You're always so welcome, Simon! 
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Oh, this is such a gorgeous site... And such a gorgeous capture! Well done!
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Thank you very much indeed
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thank you so much
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I have no words 
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nk thank you, thats made my day
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wow, i love all the pictures u take of landsscape they are all beatuiful
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So kind, thank you so much
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thanks my friend
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you're welcome
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Thank you
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Looks very equatorial with excellent colours and details
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Thank you as always
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Simon, please redo this. I have to agree with ~Gellidius the colour cast doesn't work
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i would start by getting stronger light tones, by going to Levels and move the lighlight cursor to the left a bit, until the water is good looking.
this should give a bit more life to the image.
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Thank you so much, extremely informative and useful to me
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i would like to see what i could do with your original; could you send it to me at gellidius at yahoo.com?
doing it from the one on top of this page isn't even worth trying.
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this is a very nice composition, but i think that the overall red tint makes for a flat looking image that lacks sparkle and depth and realism.
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Thank you for this J.B., much appreciated observations. I would welcome any suggestions from you as to what I could have done differently. I joined DA to learn, so it's all good for me. The shot is two photos joined together in photoshop, invade that makes any difference. Simon
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a lot of the "apparent" contrast changes with the colors you use when you're working on an image.
take a realistic looking street scene, where brightness/contrast and colors are very well done; the image then shows a lot of depth, because it
imitates the original.
if you give an overall color cast to the photo (here, it's red), you will see the semblance of reality go away, the contrast will seem lower, and even definition will seem to decrease. it's somewhat like when you convert a color image to b/w: you may have good tonal separation in the color image because of the colors that supplement tones, but in b/w those differing tones might not be different from one another.
smetimes, it's the color that serves as tonal separation.
a red cast diminishes the diversity of tones in an image.
i don't mean it should not be done, on the contrary, but i think that this image has too strong a reddish cast and because of that it does not look as well as it could.
if you put this red cast using "levels" in Ps., then maybe you could have better results if you changed the image's color temp and see if it gives better results.
i hope this is clear enough and you understand.
hope this helps.
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As with all your comments it really does help. To provide such a detailed comment and advice based on such a wealth of experience your words of wisdom cannot fail but to assist in my development. Simon
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don't forget that what i suggest you do is only a guess most of the time.
there can be so many variables in order to finally get to a finished photograph that one likes; and
what i like does not mean you will like.
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OK, not because I'm a huge Tolkien fan, and Peter Jackson shot the LOTR in New Zealand, but this island IS middle earth. Beautiful shot!
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Constantine, thank you so much indeed, appreciated.
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Thank you as always my friend
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Thank you very much
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