A Bouquet for the Boy

[JimFox]

Another from Yankee Boy Basin in the San Juan's in Colorado. The hope was to get wildflowers captured along with the waterfalls. It was rainy and overcast. I kept this one in Color, one of the reasons I had converted the previous shot to B&W is that the greens with all that moisture were just so intense. In this shot I backed off on the Yellow Saturation by 20% in the greens to get them to feel more natural.

I have the original, and then I did a crop which is something I had in mind while I was shooting. I liked the rock outcropping, it looked cool to me. But I also wanted a shot where the flowers were anchoring the corner of the shot. I knew if I went in closer to shoot it that way, DOF could become an issue, where as shooting back and wide I had plenty of DOF. So my idea as I shot it was that I had hoped I could crop it down also.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[AlanLichty]

Very nice job - I like the cropped version and the colors look quite natural to me.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Both have their appeal, the flowers and larger falls of the 2nd, the stream flow out at the lower left for the first.

 

[JimFox]

Very nice job - I like the cropped version and the colors look quite natural to me.

Thanks so much Alan! It might have been a bit unfair to post the crop along with the wider version as I also think the tighter version is stronger but that the wide version has some merit on it's own too. But in direct comparison I think the wider version will come up shot?

 

[AlanLichty]

These shots have two very different moods to them for my eyes. The wider shot has a lot more context for the stream and I like the way it flows through the comp. I get more of a sense of how the stream flows through there with the first shot. The second one is almost exclusively the falls and flowers.

 

[Kyle Jones]

Crop for me. I just like seeing the detail in the waterfall.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

I like both of them. While the tighter crop is punchier, the wider one with the flowing water gives a nice context to the area.

 

[Zeph]

Yup, crop for me, or go portrait with the middle of the first...

 

[Douglas Sherman]

And crop for me too. Sneezeweed is a neat flower and you used them perfectly to anchor this image.

 

[JimFox]

Crop for me. I just like seeing the detail in the waterfall.

Thanks Kyle, that one certainly is very appealing.

 

[Joe Colozzo]

beautiful