River Rapids

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Cold a.m. morning on (in!) a Georgia mountain river. Pentax 6x7, 105mm, 4 seconds, f16 or 22, Tmax 100.

-- Mike Green (mgprod@mindspring.com), November 23, 1998

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A well executed photograph. Has a touch of classics. Congratulations!

-- Bahman Farzad (cpgbooks@mindspring.com), November 23, 1998.

Although I'm not a fan of B&W, I love the composition and wide range of tones. Lets see more. :>

Let's see the ones with improperly calibrated monitors complain about this one (laughing ;>)

Keith

-- Keith Clark (ClarkPhotography@spiritone.com), November 23, 1998.


I like the photograph, at first my eye goes to the rock in the forground and then to scan the differnt blurs, vrey interesting. As for calabration, I don't see any whites? A full tonal range would be from white to black. I for some reason don't see it, even after adjusting my monitor which leads me to belive it is a little bit under exposed, though I have been wrong before.

-- Tait Stangl (taits@usa.net), November 23, 1998.

I lighten the image overall a bit after scanning. One of my web books says images appear darker on PC screens than on Macs which I use. Anyone know anything about this?

-- Mike Green (mgprod@mindspring.com), November 23, 1998.

This is why people still shoot B&W and MF.

Great shot!

-- Joe Boyd (boydjw@traveller.com), November 23, 1998.



Gorgeous! I like the slow shutter speed, the composition and the quality of light. I like how my eye is lead through the photograph by the flowing water, and then to the prominent rock in the foreground with the light glistening off its surface. It's nice to see someone else shooting b&w.

-- Barbara Kelly (kellys@alaska.net), November 23, 1998.

One of the best I've seen here in a while. Very nice Where did you take it in North Georgia? Jacks River in the Cohutta Wilderness?

-- Kurt Warner (kew3@mindspring.com), November 24, 1998.

Hate to be a contrarian, but I don't like this image. I think the composition is fragmented, with too many points of emphasis, resulting in nothing being emphasized. The cropping on left and right is too cramped and cuts in two both of the foreground falls, arguably the most important compositional elements. I'm not sure that black and white works all that well here because there is insufficient tonal separation between water and rock, leading to some degree of visual confusion.

-- Randy Wilson (randy@uafphpl.uark.edu), November 30, 1998.

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