Nature's Rendezvous

[GowthamK]

This was taken at Manali a hill station in India.
Shot was taken during day time around 2:30PM without any filters.


Comments & Criticism are welcome.

[madcrow]

Nice composition and image.

[Urbanflyer]

Lovely spot and nice composition. Do you do any post processing? If so, there are a couple of things I would suggest given the time of day that the image was made.

[Geoff F]

Some of the cloud highlights seem a fraction on the over exposed side. I would have preferred to see more, or none, of the bottom right corner boulder. But those are rather minor thoughts and overall this is a good real life flowing water scene.

[GowthamK]

Lovely spot and nice composition. Do you do any post processing? If so, there are a couple of things I would suggest given the time of day that the image was made.

The original pic had a hazy white all over may be cause of reflection and lots of white. I reduced the overall exposure, reduced the highlight and changed the white balance.

Any suggestions would be of immense help.

[GowthamK]

Some of the cloud highlights seem a fraction on the over exposed side. I would have preferred to see more, or none, of the bottom right corner boulder. But those are rather minor thoughts and overall this is a good real life flowing water scene.

Thank you Geoff, I missed the small stone in bottom right until u mentioned. On being over exposed I did reduced it in PP but further reducing it would make the trees underexposed so left it as such.

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[IzzieK]

Did you do a white/black balance on this image? I seem to be looking at some green tint. I like the water treatment -- very lively. The whole scene is beautiful..

[GowthamK]

Did you do a white/black balance on this image? I seem to be looking at some green tint. I like the water treatment -- very lively. The whole scene is beautiful..

Thank you Izzie. Pic looks a bit green tint specially the water will try changing the WB.

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[mknittle]

Also try a tad more contrast and see how it looks. I could be wrong on this but it may help the clouds.
Over all I like the composition. I tools much like places we have here.

[GowthamK]

Sure Mark, will try all the things suggested here. Festive season here in India so will take couple of days to get my hands on system. Will post the edited image in two or three days.

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[mknittle]

Festive season here in India
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Well then get some pictures.and have a good time.

[Andrew1]

If you are going to do more photos that are similar I'd suggest using a polarizer. I believe it would have positively effected a few things on this shot.

[MrB]

It is a lovely scene but, for me, it is let down by the dazzling clouds which look beyond recovery. If it were mine I would concentrate on the autumnal river scene, by cropping up from the base to e.g. a 16:9 ratio to exclude most of the sky - up to just above the blue sky (or is it distant hills in the cloud?) in the 'V' of the hills on the right hand side - and also by applying more saturation to the autumn colours in the trees.

Cheers.
Philip

[IzzieK]

I will await your post on the festivities of India. Anything that you can take...it will make a nice story.