Nikon F90X - 35mm lens on a Gitzo tripod - Fuji Velvia rated @ 50. Exposure: spotmetering on a darker blotch of moss outside the framed composition but in the same light of the falls, which I positioned in Zone V. Bracketed 3 shots at -1/3, 0, +1/3 and chose the -1/3 one. The aperture was set at f/16 and use of a Singh Ray Warming Polarizer determined a final 4 sec shutter speed for the middle shot.

-- Massimo Squillace (msquillace@sogei.it), September 07, 1999

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I'm sorry, but this shot doesn't work in any way for me. The main subject (the falls) is too over-exposed. The composition with the logs doesn't quite do it for me either. I would've liked to see where the falls begin.

-- Bhaskar Thiagarajan (bhaskart@hotmail.com), September 07, 1999.

I feel that if you cut off the falls there is a beutiful little picture of the water, moss and logs right at the bottom.

-- Robert Macaulay (remphoto @ yahoo.com), September 07, 1999.

Are we cropping to try and save a small portion of the print? You submitted the photo as a whole and as a whole if fails, your subject the waterfall as has been pointed out by others is totally burned out! There is no subject. I would suggest that you try it again and speed up the shutter speed and ajust your apeture as you bring up the speed, you will proably still have cottoncandy water, but at least it will have some detail in it. Keep trying. Pat

-- pat j. krentz (krentz@cci-29palms.com), September 07, 1999.

Thank you for replying. Looks like I'll need to improve on my composition ... and my scanning skills as well, since I can make out some details in the waterfall from the original transparency. To Pat: this is the whole image, not a cropping; I have other shots with the whole falls, but somehow fancied this one. I'd certainly like to try my hand again at the subject, but I live a world away ...

-- Massimo Squillace (msquillace@sogei.it), September 08, 1999.