Maple Spray +Edit #2

[AlanLichty]

While I was out shooting fall leaves today I came across an example of fall leaves that was a bit out of the ordinary. In the Pacific NW we have a tree called the Big Leaf Maple. The leaves are huge - up to 8 plus inches across so the plant earned its name. In this case several of the leaves had piled up against a rock in the midst of some rapids and created a very unique water spray effect. I incorporated this into several different scenes while I worked the area but finally decided to make it a shot of it's own.

Maple Spray:

Maple Spray

• AlanLichty
• Oct 17, 2018

Entrapped big leaf maple leaves create their own water spray patterns.

C&C always welcome.

Edit: New edits and in particular cropping to remove a distracting edge of a rock.

Maple Spray

• AlanLichty
• Oct 18, 2018

Maple leaves make an interesting variant on water spray patterns near Lake Creek Falls in...

Edit2: A framing rework as a result of Jim Dockery's comment.

Maple Spray V2

• AlanLichty
• Oct 18, 2018

An interesting water feature courtesy of a few big leaf maple leaves. Oregon coast range.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Well now, that is just a very unique and engaging image! Not sure of the shutter speed used, but it seems to be perfect to capture the right mixture of water motion and water detail to make it look like I would imagine it looked in person. Well seen and captured!

ML

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

Now that is awesome Alan

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Very clever image, Alan.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Very good Alan, nice eye for this.

 

[JimFox]

Very cool indeed Alan! I like the spraying of the water. How about a slight crop to lose that rock that is along the upper left edge? Even using the warp tool to gently nudge it out of the frame would work as you don't have much space on the top or bottom for cropping.

 

[AlanLichty]

Thanks for the feedback and comments.

I just got back home so I will try to see about cloning out that fragment of rock on my bigger screen.

 

[Bob]

Alan,
This is a very cool effect. I like it a lot. I agree with Jim lose the rock on the upper left.
Bob

 

[AlanLichty]

The rock in the upper left has been removed. I decided I wanted to leave the water flow patterns alone so a quick snip took care of the offending stone. I also tweaked the WB a bit along with just a touch more color to the leaves.

 

[JimFox]

Love the edit Alan!

It's amazing how sometimes just 1 little thing can totally mess up the flow of a photo.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Nice edit Alan

 

[Jim Dockery]

Good eye on that unusual spray. I see a much tighter zoom (if you’d had the lens) into the spray, loosing the bottom rocks that distract me from the main idea.

 

[AlanLichty]

Good eye on that unusual spray. I see a much tighter zoom (if you’d had the lens) into the spray, loosing the bottom rocks that distract me from the main idea.

Ironically I did have the lens - a 100-400mm hanging on my belt. In this case your suggestion of a tighter crop was easily with the capture and I ended up with a slightly different result but one that I really like where I pared the scene down to the spray and one last rock in the lower right. I couldn't quite get in all of the spray I wanted without some of that rock in the scene so I included all of it.

 

[Ben Egbert]

That last edit takes on a whole new aspect where it appears that the leaves are some mighty vessel plowing against the water.

 

[BarryHamilton]

Very cool catch, Alan! Nicely seen. I like the crop!

 

[Alisa]

I really like the last one and how you made the edits. I love this image!