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Fallen Tree Bridge.

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    This is another shot from my cedar creek expedition a couple of weeks ago.

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    I love the composition here. On my monitor the colour looks a little oversaturated but that could be because my world is white and gray right now.
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    The composition is wonderful as Bambi said....nice find!
    For me though, the colours are way oversaturated, especially the greens.
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    Thanks guys. I did bump the saturation a bit, and I think I know why I felt I needed to do that.
    Any other critique? Crop?

    I took a heap of shots of this scsI'll have a go at fixing it after I get some more feedback, thanks.

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    A couple of things strike me about this: (1) I think some work on levels and curves would help; there are too-deep shadows (along/under the log) and over-bright highlights (Tops of the rocks, background whites). I like the framing of the image, that is, the use of the trees to enhance the lines of the creekbed, but I'm not such a fan of the water going toward the background.

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    As the others have said ... the composition is good.

    Saturated colours can work in landscape and I often do that myself but greens are one thing I almost always back off. I usually have to back the yellows off actually to achieve the desired result.

    This was a difficult shot for a single exposure! A very high dynamic range to deal with which has blown out the rock tops and a few tree trunks in the background, as well as created those very deep shadows under the main log.

    Because of the high sun I think a lot of shadow needs to be there ... our eyes expect it to be there but some dodging in those shadows would help I think.

    I'd try burning in those hot spots I mentioned as well.

    There's a lot of Chromatic Aberration in the smaller, bright sticks to the left of the frame as well which could be corrected. There are enhancing the out of focus areas there a bit much as they are.

    I don't see a better crop for this one really. I just tried holding up a card to simulate a crop or two but really I like how the stream appears from the right and flows along and we can see it disappear to the left.

    I really love the movement in the grasses in the foreground. I know some people don't but for me it shows some life other than the water.

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    I think that you should desaturate the green in the background.
    Also looks like your highlights are blown out.

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