Aspen Falls

[xysmas]

This was taken during last week's Ride the Rockies event, with over 2000 bikers touring around some of colorado's finest areas. I was hired and working there as a photographer and 'computer guy' for proofing and selling photos on site.

I took this while my coworkers and i tooled around aspen during what little free time we had. What do you guys think?

[Chlobo]

I love it!

The light reflections on the road to the left give it extra oomph.

[clockdoc]

Very nice work! The low angle separates it from hundreds of other shots of the same fountain. Did you do a little HDR work here?

[xysmas]

Originally Posted by clockdoc

Very nice work! The low angle separates it from hundreds of other shots of the same fountain. Did you do a little HDR work here?

Thank you - While we were wandering around in the area, I must have seen at least 10 people taking the typical snapshot there... I may do a full write up on how i took it and edited it in the appropriate section later, but for now I'll add a bit to this.

There was no HDR work done here - The fountains were moving a bit too fast to get a proper bracket that would have minor ghosting in the blend of exposures.

I did quite a bit of work on the shot - The original was great but not 'print-worthy' if you know what i mean. I cloned out several distractions, did some color overlays, High Pass sharpening, a tiny bit of lucis, and a lot of fine tuning.