> On Nov 16, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>> 
>> On Nov 16, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Brian Lawson wrote:
>> 
>>> Taken last month in Zion.
>>> 
>>> <http://brianspics.wittybanter.org/Zion/Pages/RiverwalkWaterfall.html>
>> 
>> Very pretty. 
>> 
>> Is that an HDR shot? It seems a bit unreal, almost composited, particularly 
>> in the foreground. 
>> 
>> It may just be an artifact of the exposure time, and the reduction of the 
>> picture for the web too...the water seems just blurred, rather than moving 
>> for some reason.
> 
> Thanks Bruce,
> 
> It is not an HDR, never even took it into Photoshop. All I did to it was done 
> in Lightroom. It was a 3 second exposure which is why the water is so 
> blurred, that was intentional. I shot it at ƒ-22 with a 3 stop polarizer on 
> it to I could get the long exposure.
> 
> The sandy area in the foreground was a bit too bright so I masked it and gave 
> it some additional exposure to darken it so it would keep from drawing the 
> eye to the bottom of the frame. I also darkened the water in the foreground, 
> just below each fall, a bit, but not as much, for the same reason - it was 
> just a hair too bright for the overall composition. The only other thing I 
> did beyond basic contrast adjustments and some sharpening was add a touch of 
> very light yellow to the shadow area to reduce the amount of blue there.
> --
> Brian Lawson


Here are a couple more from the summer.
<http://brianspics.wittybanter.org/ThereAndBack/pages/TheWellsvilles.html>
<http://brianspics.wittybanter.org/ThereAndBack/pages/LoganTemple.html>

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