A retrospective - Yellowstone Park, the Lower Falls

I shot this photo eight years ago and have posted a larger version of it on here before. But in the intervening years I have learned (I hope) a lot more about digital editing, and this is my latest version of it. it was taken with a k-10D and the 60-250 zoom. It was a very bright day and the total light range as captured is well outside the capability of the K-10D. I settled on this version in which the highlights are acceptable and renders the sides of the Fall's canyon as very dark, but captures the different tones of the spray from the falling water of the Yellowstone River.

To me it has a primeval feel. Please click on the image and look at in in full size.

It does have impact! As a bold dramatic statement that coveys a feeling for the place it works really well. Its not at all realistic I guess, but the sheer audacity of the extreme contrast within it pulls it off

Personally I'd try and pull down the blown highs on the water just a little. I love the fact that we get a tantalising taster of the detail in the shadows .... perhaps just as well its only a taster, who knows the noisy horrors that might lurk there ?! ... (MrB no doubt may well find some .... )

Quite correct Nigel. If nothing else it shows how our eyes ability to view a scene are well ahead of photography, 2009 standards that is.

Got to agree with all Nigel says with the exception of pulling down the blown highlights - I think it is the white hot molten silver look of this section that draws the eye into the centre of the view that then shows the detail of the beautifully lit slopes to the left and then entices you backwards with the slight shadow details towards the foreground.

If this image had been taken with a current camera the dynamic range would have allowed a lot more detail to be captured and the temptation in PP would probably have resulted in a very different (but still stunning) image.

Cracking image - superbly presented

Wow

Love this! The scale of it all

Stunning

Works for me anyway.
I like it.

Certainly one to be very pleased with. As Nigel says, the wish list would be a bit more detail from the bright white, but it's just that: a wish list. It works very well as it stands.

Thanks for all the comments.

It is a personal take on the place. It has drama and scale, I love it!