"Beaver Dam Waterfall Tour"

June

Photographer's Comments -

We live in an area of the high plains, once referred to as the great American dessert. The farm is near a seasonal creek which is running full this June. This normally placid beaver pond currently a miniature torrent. I took the boating picture in Glacier Park some time ago and used the magic extractor tool, did little else to the scene but cropping to put the boat in the proper third segment.

COMMENTS:
 

Stuart Caine	Nice picture. I would add some saturation to make the picture snap. Good job.
Dean Hellinger
Eleanor Helper	I never would have guessed the canoe was added but it certainly looks at home. Except the couple look far too placid to have just come over that dam. As long as you are fixing stuff, I think a bright shade of green on the shore would complement the blue water & red canoe.
Burt Hesselson	You did very well extracting and placing the canoe where you did. I think it plays VERY much better flipped. I also added about a half inch to the top to place the dam in more of the one third section. Also when I went to levels the left black slider was way off so I moved it to 41 and then slid the middle slider to 121 to get a better contrast.
Donn Miertl
Tim Christoffersen	The sweeping curve from the top left down through the middle of the image and exiting in the lower right with the two paddlers in the red kayak is a nice composition. I find the extent of the width of the water in the center portion of the image tends, in my view, to dominate the two guys in the boat. I don’t know how much resolution you had to work with, but the image might have been stronger, in my view, giving up some of the sweeping curve in the top half (about a third off the top of the image) to make the guys in the boat larger and emphasize the action in the water in the lower 40% of the image.
Larry Beller	You did a great job of transplanting, even to the reflection of the water! The canoeists do look awfully dry to have come down that drop in a canoe, though. You have the canoe at the right place according to the suggestion of  the rule of thirds, but it looks to me as if it is going to fall out of the picture; reversing it, as in this thumbnail seems to overcome that.

Member Bio

Dean Hellinger - Photographic Biography I have lived most of my life, after university and military service, in Montana, currently 74 years old.   My wife and I live on the family farm that my Grandparents started in l910.  This is north central Montana, 100 miles from Glacier National Park, 30 miles from Canada.  We raise mostly wheat, the work currently being done by two nephews.  My photographic experience started with one of the first Polaroids while in high school, then graduated to SLR and years of taking slides.  I also had a B/W dark room where I taught myself a lot and attempted all the wonderful things that are now so easy in the digital age.   I just purchased the latest Canon Rebel XSi, use Photoshop Elements 6 and thoroughly enjoy the computer. I'm still learning and very much appreciate the helpful comments of everyone.