Mysterious Rhine Falls Photo

Photographer’s Note

Rhine Falls (Rheinfall) is an amazing place. It can be full of colours and full of tourists too as already showed Jean-Yves in his beautiful photo. However if you prefer to experience mysterious Rheinfall without the tourists at all, visit it in a rainy morning just before the sunrise as I did two weeks ago on my journey to Corsica.

BTW, the photo is taken from hand, without a tripod. Usable ISO 1600 and stabilised chip of my new Minolta 5D is quite handy combination for such situations.

papagolf21, Tue, john_c, jhm, mortijo has marked this note useful

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lukie (0) 2006-04-11 12:44

Hello Marek,

I'm the first, I think. Amazing composition with a stunning mood here ! No words enough to express, I'll let it to the other ones...

regards,

Luc.

Elaine_Blath (6170) 2006-04-11 13:25

Hi Marek,

well, I´m the second....how can you do this without a tripod?? Amazing, the effect of the falls is great....it has such a darkish atmosphere...well done! I´ll keep visiting your photos....

Regards, Ivana

carper (66108) 2006-04-11 13:42

marvelous shot Marek.
a little bit dark, but I made a WS and I hopeyou like it. The composition is very well taken and the quality is very good. good job.
gr. jaap

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papagolf21 (57003) 2006-04-11 16:34

Bonsoir mon ami Marek,
J'aime beaucoup cette composition où il règne une sorte de mystère, l'on dirait l'oeuvre d'un peintre, le temps de pose est parfait pour exprimer la beauté des lieux.
Une grande photographie présentée ici, mon ami Marek.
Félicitations.
Amitiés.
Philippe

Tue (25608) 2006-04-11 17:13

Hej Marek,
The light of the street lamps and the cloudy sky create a nice atmosphere. The water falls are very nice too. Well captured!
Hilsen,
Lars

faraujo (1322) 2006-04-11 17:50

Hi Marek
Very interesting this photo, the blur, the dark colours gives to the final result an aspect quite dramatic.
A different way to shot, you broke with your portfolio
Well done
Filipe

Fixfocus (9377) 2006-04-11 19:27

Hi Marek,
The limited range of colors is supporting the mood,good framing but maybe you could have cropped out the single branch on the right.
Looks like the image stabilizer works pretty good,-congratulations on your new camera!
Greetings,
Hermann

john_c (24635) 2006-04-11 21:05

Hi Marek,
A superb composition that very much resembles a painting. Although some may not like the softness visible in some areas, I think this is a very fine look for the foreground and middle frame, while the buildings on the hill are in good sharp detail. The exposure level also seems just right. You did well to achieve this result without a tripod, as your note indicates.
John

jhm (83742) 2006-04-12 3:45

Hi Marek,
I agree with previous writers but I find your composition absolutely not bad, a ISO 1600 is not perfectly better and use a ISO 400.
Thanks a lot
John

toni_al (15476) 2006-04-12 17:34

Hi Marek
une ambience assez etrange mais qui va très bien a cette image, cela ajoute du mystère. joli vue
@+ Toni