Pics from Great Falls, MD

Took these pics of Great Falls and the C&O canal this past Saturday.
http://www.pbase.com/rkircher/great_falls_md

As always comment and critiques welcome.
Hope you enjoy.

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Rob
"A disturbing new study finds that studies are disturbing"

Some of th pictures of the assoted falls were interesting. Most of them
left me kinda flat.

These locations would have been great at sunset of sunrise. I'd scout
the place out if you're serious about getting some great shots there. I
know, waiting around for sunset, or getting up early for sunrise sucks,
but it surely is worth it.

Also, trry to head out when some white puffly clouds are about, that
sky was evil.

Might be helped by a graduated ND filter or two. You can add those in
Photoshop or even Picasa2. Picasa is actually easier to use for that I
think.

http://brizfam.blogspot.com/

Robert R Kircher, Jr. wrote:
Took these pics of Great Falls and the C&O canal this past Saturday.
http://www.pbase.com/rkircher/great_falls_md

As always comment and critiques welcome.
Hope you enjoy.

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Rob
"A disturbing new study finds that studies are disturbing"

Nice pics! How long since you last saw the sun (Big glowing orange ball
in the sky) back there?

"salgud" wrote in message
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Robert R Kircher, Jr. wrote:
Took these pics of Great Falls and the C&O canal this past Saturday.
http://www.pbase.com/rkircher/great_falls_md

As always comment and critiques welcome.
Hope you enjoy.

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Rob
"A disturbing new study finds that studies are disturbing"

Nice pics! How long since you last saw the sun (Big glowing orange ball
in the sky) back there?


LOL Sun? What's that?

Actually we have blue skies today (first time in weeks I think) although I
haven't been out long enough to spot the big orange ball thingy.

Thanks.

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Rob

"Robert R Kircher, Jr." wrote in message
...
Took these pics of Great Falls and the C&O canal this past Saturday.
http://www.pbase.com/rkircher/great_falls_md

As always comment and critiques welcome.
Hope you enjoy.

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Thumbnails are underexposed until you hover. Makes it hard to choose an
image to view.

Robert R Kircher, Jr. wrote:
Took these pics of Great Falls and the C&O canal this past Saturday.
http://www.pbase.com/rkircher/great_falls_md

As always comment and critiques welcome.
Hope you enjoy.

I don't like the effect of dimming the pictures until you put
the mouse over them.

My first reaction was: "Why are all but one picture under
exposed"

Perhaps a change to the border on mouse-over would be
better.

-Mike

"Mike Warren" wrote in
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Robert R Kircher, Jr. wrote:
Took these pics of Great Falls and the C&O canal this past Saturday.
http://www.pbase.com/rkircher/great_falls_md

As always comment and critiques welcome.
Hope you enjoy.

I don't like the effect of dimming the pictures until you put
the mouse over them.

My first reaction was: "Why are all but one picture under
exposed"

Perhaps a change to the border on mouse-over would be
better.



Interesting, that's the first two comments I've received regarding how the
page works. Frankly, it's just one of PBases standard template pages.

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Rob

Robert R Kircher, Jr. wrote:

Took these pics of Great Falls and the C&O canal this past Saturday.
http://www.pbase.com/rkircher/great_falls_md

As always comment and critiques welcome.


Buy a tripod.

Most need a slower shutter speed and the lower speed ones you did shoot are
blurry. Also try to avoid brightly sunlit days when shooting in spotty
lighting. The shorter focal length shots seem soft to me, not sure what's
going on there, maybe needs some USM or how they were downsampled hurt
them? Soft lens?

Of the bunch I liked this one..

http://www.pbase.com/rkircher/image/47548558

But even it has more impact sharpened up a bit.

Hope you were serious about wanting a critique? :-)

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Stacey

"Robert R Kircher, Jr." wrote in message
...
Took these pics of Great Falls and the C&O canal this past Saturday.
http://www.pbase.com/rkircher/great_falls_md

As always comment and critiques welcome.
Hope you enjoy.


I used to live around there. Nice shots. My only suggestion would be to
shoot more pics with slow shutter speeds. As you've found it really gives
the water a velvety texture. You may have to use an ND filter to get the
speed down if it's too bright.

Sheldon wrote:



I used to live around there. Nice shots. My only suggestion would be to
shoot more pics with slow shutter speeds. As you've found it really gives
the water a velvety texture. You may have to use an ND filter to get the
speed down if it's too bright.

Many were shot at ISO 400 so I don't think that was the issue. My guess is
he was shooting these handheld.
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Stacey