Artist's description:
These are the upper and lower waterfalls from the Old Man's Cave area of Hocking Hills, Ohio. Those of you familiar with these waterfalls will recognize that I cheated "big time." It's normally a bit of a hike between the two falls, but I put them together in one view, with the Lower Falls emptying into the Upper Falls. (Yes, water can flow up hill, at least in a fantasy!) Click here to learn more and to see "before" and "after" shots. The Upper Falls image was captured with a Canon 10D, 28-135mm IS USM at 44mm, f/9.5, 1/10s. The Lower Falls image was captured at 28mm, f/6.7, 1/4s. Both images were image stabilized.
Artist's technical assessment of the image quality:
Sharpness: Superb.
Camera shake: none
Digital noise: low
Compression artifact: n/a
Chromatic aberration: substantially corrected through hand retouching. No errors are visible at 20x30 and smaller.
Distortion: unknown
Maximum acceptable enlargement: This can be enlarged quite comfortably to 20x30 with excellent sharpness and detail.
Image detail:
*These are swatches from the image when magnified to the indicated size, as viewed on the average 17" monitor at 1024x768 pixels. They show you the actual sharpness of the print that will hang on your wall. If you have a smaller monitor or have your monitor configured with more pixels, you should "imagine" these swatches a bit larger. Please note that compression artifact (including checkering and banding around higher contrast edges) may be evident as you view these images online. This is a compromise in jpeg images that makes them quicker to load on a web page. The printed image will not have these defects, unless noted under "Artist's technical assment of the image quality. (See "Compression artifact")."