How do i improve this?

[kunaldaswani]

I know its a bad waterfall shot. I was just wondering if you could give me some cropping suggestions cos i think its is just too busy and the waterfall is in the center or do u think it is fine as is. Please critique and tell me what i could have done better.

[jiminyClickit]

kunaldaswani,

If you're close to that area and could take 10 more, trying different settings, you could get the water to look very soft but not blown out white. Since you see the busyness, it's where I would crop - all around the sides (more of left) and bottom. Not necessarily centered, I would think waterfall on the left side. Bottom crop would reduce size of boulders which steal much attention away, full size. Then a little contrast and saturation to get it livelier. That's all. It's not a bad shot.

[ELAY]

My suggestion is that you crop up from the bottom to just a tiny bit above where the shadow on the bottom of the boulder foreground left ends. One of the nice things about the photo is that the two boulders have diagonal curves that reflect the curves in the falling water, and if you crop up any higher I think you will affect that aspect of the photo.

I agree with JC that you should crop more from the left than the right, but I can't decide where the crop from the left should come from -- the big black void makes it hard. Maybe just to the right of the little plant at the bottom right foreground, and then crop out its remaining leaves?

EL

[phlyersphan]

The front-and-center rock is most distracting - that's the first thing I noticed. I'd crop some off the bottom, and possibly off the left to get rid of some of the busy-ness.

[Overexposed !]

Hi kunaldaswani, I personally like the shot just the way it is.The two large rocks in the foreground naturally guide your eye to the flowing water. Only after viewing the water does your eye wander to view all the wonderful details. Neat shot - jimmy

[TW1NS]

You have gotten a lot of suggestions on this photo...
I would crop the RIGHT side of the pic in a bit and let your eye flow with the water to the bottom left of the pic...
IMHO....
need to experiment with such shots myself...still waiting for my remote to arrive...

[ToddC]

I would recommend a square crop. positioning the falls in the right 1/3rd of the photo. That's the easy part. You've got a lot to work with to create the right compostion; however, I think the falls are overexposed, there's little detail.

The best time to take this type of photo is at dusk with a tripod of course. Moreover, I would recommend bracketing your shots and monitoring your histogram. Bracketing is easy if you set the exposure manually.

I hope this helps...Todd

[kunaldaswani]

Thank you all for your suggestions. Tried all various crops. The more i look at it, the more i don't like the image, so nothings going to help. Giving up on it. but thank you all for your suggestions!