Serenity Falls

[GBO25]

The title says it all. These are at Buderim on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

It's a two shot panorama stitched in Elements 13.

[Rebel]

Great shot! Composition is amazing, and the shutter speed is just right!

[dje]

Lovely capture Graham with a strong composition.

I haven't seen these falls before but I think I have had a short stroll on the boardwalk at the other end of the park. Must re-visit sometime.

Dave

[Barbara Ponder]

Gorgeous just gorgeous!!!!

[FootLoose]

Beautiful scene, Graham, well captured.

[Shadowman]

Nicely done.

[IzzieK]

Very nice, Graham....looks like a place Izzie can sit down and eat a samwich or two while I swing legs out there from that bridge, then take a shot...

[John 2]

I can see why they are called Serenity Falls. You have captured the feeling well. Nice shot.

[Mike Buckley]

I can see why they are called Serenity Falls. You have captured the feeling well.

Yes, well done on that count!

However, I'm not enamored with the composition because the waterfall and bridge pull my eyes in opposite directions, but to each his own.

[selig1656]

Terrific processing to obtain this well done work. I admire your skills in all that I have viewed from you.

[Krawuntzel]

Yes, well done on that count!

However, I'm not enamored with the composition because the waterfall and bridge pull my eyes in opposite directions, but to each his own.

I agree with Mike; the waterfall is great; the bridge adds only distraction.
Erwin

[Mike Buckley]

It just now occurred to me that the bridge would be far more effective for me if a person or just a few people were on the bridge looking at the waterfall. Lacking that, my initial thinking that the bridge pulls my eyes away from the waterfall still stands.

[John 2]

It just now occurred to me that the bridge would be far more effective for me if a person or just a few people were on the bridge looking at the waterfall. Lacking that, my initial thinking that the bridge pulls my eyes away from the waterfall still stands.

Mike, my eye travels from the water to the waterfall, then around to the bridge and finally back around to the water once more via the bank. Nothing actually takes your eye out of the image. It's a so called circular composition I guess. Isn't that a fairly legitimate way of holding the comp together. Could be stronger I guess but it works for me.

[Texas Dave]

Beautiful!

[Mike Buckley]

Nothing actually takes your eye out of the image.

Agreed. However, when two elements pull my eyes in opposite directions so strongly as happens here, it's irrelevant that my eyes aren't taken out of the frame.

Isn't that a fairly legitimate way of holding the comp together.

Yes, that's legitimate for you because it holds the composition together for you. However, that doesn't happen for me. That acceptable yet disparate thinking reinforces the part of my initial post explaining that "to each his own."

One of the compositional aspects I struggle with is that the two strongest attention grabbers in the scene are oriented differently; one is vertical and the other is horizontal. It's a rare image when such a situation won't make me struggle and I don't want to have to struggle to enjoy a photograph.

[John 2]

Fair comment.

[bnnrcn]

Great image

[FootLoose]

It just now occurred to me that the bridge would be far more effective for me if a person or just a few people were on the bridge looking at the waterfall.

Look carefully: there is a person on the left side of the bridge looking at the falls. It's that little orange dot.

[jcuknz]

I really do not know if I am supposed to look at the waterfall or the bridge .. evens bad, odds good etc.
So really your left-hand frame is 'the shot' and if the bridge was required then wading through the water to a position under and behind the bridge to frame the waterfall is the obvious solution ... but of course not always possible.

edit ... crossing the 'T' after reading Mike's comment.

[GBO25]

It just now occurred to me that the bridge would be far more effective for me if a person or just a few people were on the bridge looking at the waterfall.

I'm enjoying the debate this composition has raised. Thanks Mike. I also agree I should have had someone on the bridge. Ps, I hope drawing your eyes in different directions doesn't end in a Marty Feldman outlook

Look carefully: there is a person on the left side of the bridge looking at the falls. It's that little orange dot.

That person (who in hindsight I should have left in the middle) is my wife Greg, I'll ask her if she minds being a little orange dot