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nothing like someone stepping into your reflection shot!!! A gorgeous 1956 Mercedes Benz 190SL roadster in drop-dead-red ! Slid a bit for HSS.
You may be wondering what black tar has to do with the rather average looking, pink fairy floss image.
This was taken the evening we arrived at Lake Tyrrell. The entire lake had a dried up apart from one small puddle, about 1 km from the edge of the lake. I thought I should try for some reflection shots before it too disappeared. We made the trek just on sunset, carefully walking across the fragile salt pan. I should have noted the warning signs. A black layer under the white. Too late. About 5 meters from the puddle and I walked into it and went straight down into a black, tar like sludge. The sherpa would not rescue me. No way he was going to risk sinking his precious Merrill's into the sludge. He just looked on in amusement-typical.
I had thongs on which I managed to wiggle out of and slowly worked my way out. Black sludge everywhere. I, stupidly thought I have come all this way, I have got to at least make an image of the puddle. All that for this mediocre image!
Had to make the journey back with no shoes, stinking like rotting mud and black everywhere. The joys of adventure.
It is supposed to rain this week in Sedona and I am hoping there will be some nice puddles combined with low winds to get some more good reflection shots from this site.
Had an errand in town yesterday and feeling inspired by the photography of my Flickr friend Leon Van Kemenade I had another shot at a couple of architectural/reflection shots and still felt very intimidated but this place seemed quite enough even for me... although a couple of candid street shots left me feeling weak... A bit beyond me I'm afraid..
I thought I would have a go at a B&W reflections shot for a change although the golden morning light was good in the colour version.
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A lovely secluded lochan in Glencoe, conditions on this day were absolutely perfect for a reflection shot.
While walking at Willband Creek Park in Abbotsford, BC, got this lovely reflection shot in an area of still water. (19-01-15-0227)
This was the first shot I took of this bridge east of Paynesville, MN as a westbound behind a single GEVO crossed it on a calm evening in November 2008. It turned out pretty well, but I regretfully cut off the reflection at the bottom of the frame. I would return to this location a bunch of times over the years before I finally got an equally clear reflection shot that included the entire thing.
At the beginning of the year we went to the Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur, California. This beach is famous for the keyhole, a hole in a rock out on the ocean. The sun light shines right through the keyhole at sunset, but only in December and January when the sun is low. This reflection shot is facing the rocks located in the ocean.
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Another reflection shot at Venice Beach. I can imagine the view from the plane above the pier was pretty decent.
Venice Beach Pier
Venice, California
January 27th, 2016
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I like Steveston Harbour because I can always find my favorite reflection.
Have a great Friday and weekend!
This is an archive picture and below is the original story posted.
It is close to the end of year. The new year of rabbit starts on Thursday.
This is time for reflection.
Did I have too much fun with my Fuji compact?
Did I do too many panoramas lately?
Did I do too many infrareds?
Should I take more color shots?
Best wishes to my Flickr friends in the new year and hope everybody is getting more great pictures!
Reflection shot in Steveston taken with my Fuji point & shoot again in the weekend.
After visiting San Francisco's Asian Art Museum we headed to the Crissy Field for sunset. Stale water lent itself for this reflection shot of silhouette people and Golden Gate Bridge.
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Been a while i play with my HDR software. just a very light touch with HDR to enhance the clouds a bit
Another What's Sup Series of Cityscape
just like building with Windows, Reflection shot are one of my fav :D
This is around 47 street near park ave lol sorry
We're now back in Wyoming and the weather starts to deteriorate. But the moody sky enhances this reflection shot in Parkman, WY.
Hudson is learning that the best reflection shot near a temporary North Dakota lake requires low elevation. Today's H-GALGFD did the trick with a pair of H1 GEs.
I went to Eyeworth Pond In the New Forest yesterday found ducks on the ice. Ideal for reflection shots.
- Anonymous.
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Photographing the south tufa beach at Mono Lake feels like cheating in many ways. The place is gorgeous. Its unique position across the Tioga pass means the sky is always interesting. The beautiful tufa formations provide many patterns and details, making it almost an easy place for stunning landscape photography.
I usually prefer shooting here at sunrise to get beautiful reflections on the water, so I was not too enthusiastic when we got an opportunity to head to Mono Lake for sunset. The sky was uncharacteristically bare, and sunset means choppy waters and hence no reflection shots. Thankfully I decided to go, thinking that I would explore the shoreline a bit and hopefully find some spots to return to later.
What greeted me was a perfectly still lake with perfect reflections of the fantastic tufa formations. Since I planned to explore, I had my recently acquired Nikon Z6 and the 70-200 f2.8 instead of my trusty D850 and 24-70 combo. I was still a bit new with the lens, but there were few others on the lake, and I had all the time to hit my usual spots to make some beautiful images. Today's photo is a three image panorama of the pirate ship tufa formation. I posted a similar picture some time ago, but that included some foreground elements. For this shot, I wanted to isolate the tufa and showcase its details against the incredibly blue canvas that nature provided that day.
- Eugene Ionesco.
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Getting a good reflection shot is not an easy task. Alpine Lakes in the mornings are the traditional source of a reflection shot, but while the valley is home to Merced River, there are no significant lakes in the area. Now the Merced river snakes its way into many of the classic views of the Yosemite Valley, being a quite fast-moving river, the chances of a good reflection shot is scarce.
So, imagine my surprise when we were at Valley view spot for a sunrise shot during the winter of 2014 and saw perfectly still water with reflections everywhere. After the customary sunrise shot at valley view, we did a quick check of all our favorite spots. This spot at the hanging bridge is my preferred composition of the Yosemite Falls. Now during 2014, the drought in California was at its peak, and the majestic Yosemite falls was a shell of its usual self. Now, this is not a unique composition by any means, but the luck of the traveling photog was with me that day.
Sound II by Antony Gormley (fashioned in lead from a cast of his own body)
Because of the high water table, the crypt in Winchester Cathedral is often flooded and only a small flood is needed for the opportunity of some reflection shots.
This was taken in the Lake District in England, on a crisp cold morning. I have taken photos from this exact spot several times over the years and its interesting to notice the small changes to the area. I do also love a nice reflection shot.
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Light the World back lighting on this almost real light bulb creates unusual light reflections, shot in North Carolina.
Wet reflection shot taken before our strange sunny and dry weather spell. I've never seen so many Londoners wishing for rain.
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While composing this reflection shot I happened to notice someone starting to cross so waited until they were in the middle to add a human prospective
The house on the loch
Another reflection shot from Loch Ard. This one featuring a house on the lochside.
P1013359: Taken at Loch Ard, Aberfoyle, Scotland.
- Robert Herrick.
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Some years ago, we did a road trip through some of the American southwest's iconic locations, including stops at Sedona, Monument Valley, Lower Antelope Canyon, and the Grand Canyon National Park. One of the most surprising places during the visit was Sedona, as I had not heard about it much before. The only spot I had in mind was the Crescent Moon Picnic Area which had a great view of the famous Cathedral Rocks.
If I remember this correctly, our timing was a bit off, and we missed peak fall colors by a week, but there was still a bit of color left over on the cottonwood trees that adorned the park, and views here turned out to be some of the most stunning that I have seen. A slick rock area in the park has these massive scars leading up to the rock formations in the background. Sometimes this area has puddles in these holes that make it possible to take a nice reflection shot but even without the water, they worked well for this image. I am glad I found this image while reviewing my old files.
A perfect reflection shot of one of the lakes in Columbia N.W.R. Just then, if you look closely, a muskrat swam by.
After an historic snowfall in the winter, the spring melt promised to be spectacular in Yosemite. I made a solo trip into the valley in late April to witness Yosemite at its best. This shot does not exist usually but there was so much water flowing into the valley that the meadows were flooding, allowing for this rare reflection. Shot taken near Swinging Bridge. I was lucky to capture this moment as the flooding closed the valley floor 2 days later.
This photo isn't exactly what I had planned. I was walking through the Melbourne CBD taking photos when it started to rain. I've been waiting for an opportunity to take some rainy photos at Centre Place, so I passed through on my return to the station. I'd hoped to get some good puddle reflection shots, but I found that it's really difficult with dirty brown water! Either way, I still really like this low-level perspective of my favourite photography spot.
Fun at the beach with my 300mm plus the 2x extender. it was fascinating to observe details from such a distance, watching live the awesome atmospheric deformations and reflections.
shot at Ocean city, Washington. june 2010
Capturing perfectly still reflection shots here is no easy matter and normally only happens a handful of occasions in a year. Indeed pretty well all the other shots I took here this morning had the waters ruffled by a slight gust of wind.
Another reflection shot from my Farringdon Station set. Very pleased with this.
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"Rivers and roads
Rivers and roads
Rivers 'til I reach you"
-Rivers and Roads by The Head and The Heart
As I said in my last post I want to dedicate my next couple of posts to my family. This image is dedicated to my daughter Avery. Rivers and Roads is the title of a song by the band The Head and The Heart that my daughter happens to be learning to play on the guitar. I am very proud of her for her many talents and spirit, and am very glad that she is sticking to her guitar lessons. The song is beautiful and perfectly captures the heartache associated with constantly traveling away from my family. I was very excited when I found this spot, as it had this perfect intersection of a glacier-fed river, a mountain road and the stunning Swiss alps, and the song title immediately popped in my head. So my dearest Avery, this is for you, I miss you terribly and think about you always when I am away.
As to the image itself, this is the unmistakable Matterhorn as reflected in the river Findelbach that flows off the Findelgleischer (glacier). I had a weekend stay over in Switzerland during a business trip in September so I took the train from Zurich to Zermatt, with the intention of hiking up to the Stellisee lake to get a photo of the reflection of the Matterhorn in the lake. If you search Matterhorn on flickr, this is the classic shot you will find most often. In a nutshell, I underestimated the intensity of the hike and I didn't quite make it there. This shot of the Matterhorn peak bathed in the alpenglow and reflected in the Findelbach is unique as far as I can find. Judge for yourself whether that makes it interesting. It is clearly not the shot I really wanted, and the original composition had several issues. It's one of those images that doesn't quite work at first and you have to step away from it for a while and then patiently work with it to improve. After removing some unsightly gondola wires and cropping it I was more satisfied.
Of course, the intended shot had to be a sunrise or sunset shot. Unfortunately the gondola and funicular train that both go up from Zermatt (at 4,000ft) to the 5 lakes (at 6,000ft) start running after sunrise and stop before sunset. So if one wants a sunrise/sunset shot one has two choices: overnight on the mountain-side, or hike up/down from Zermatt. I chose the hike option because I wasn’t prepared to camp out. To skip straight to today’s lesson: it was the wrong choice. Or rather, I didn’t have the time to properly prepare and half-assing my way up there at 3am cost me my chance at a reflection shot in the lake. Now, that may not be such a disaster because without some decent cloud lighting I don’t think the lake reflection would be any more satisfying to me than this shot. But that hike!! Very nearly did me in. It's about 12km walking at a fairly good incline from Zermatt. But the main reason is actually right in the middle of the frame of this shot. The bridge in the center is the connection between the path up from Zermatt to this particular spot and the road that continues up to the Stellisee. And I was so busy trying to find a composition during the few minutes of pre-sunrise Alpenglow that I missed the sign where the road up to Stellisee forks from the path that follows the river.
I continued to follow that path along the river as it started to slope upward and got increasingly difficult, until I was almost at the foot of the glacier. I was now hemmed in by steep slopes of loose rock on either side and decided I'd clearly misread the map or missed a fork, and it was just too stupid to go any further.
I turned back down and eventually discovered the sign to Stelligsee. The funicular was also up this path just beyond Stelligsee. I summoned my last bit of drive to follow the path (back uphill) until I reached the Grindjisee lake, a few hundred meters before Stelligsee, just to stubbornly say I'd made it (mostly). I took my reflection shot in the Grindjisee for posterity, even though it was well past sunrise and the light quality was bad by that point, so I'll never post it.
At this point my legs were so tired that I just didn’t have it in me to keep climbing, even though it was a 2 hour descent back down to Zermatt instead of a 30 minute hike further uphill. At least I could claim some form of masochistic victory; I had made it to the 5 lakes and had the route scoped out for a future visit. Hiked 20 miles (32km) that day at 4,000-6,000 feet (2000 meters). Climbed and then descended the equivalent of 200 flights of stairs. And lived to write the tale for my wonderful daughter Avery :-)
An image of the former Power Station, and accompanying reflections, shot at dusk. The bridge to the right is the Grosvenor Railway bridge, which serves London Victoria. It was really refreshing to see all the work that has being going on here, I particularly like the reflected light this area gives at night, shine on….
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Not really going to say too much about this one other than the fact that it was the only good sunset I got on this five-day backpacking trip! It was a total surprise, too -- I was expecting clear blue skies and then some beautiful cirrus rolled on. I wasn't complaining; in fact, I wasn't ready, so I ran down and down in the basin until I could get that nice-looking peak on the left to spew the clouds out!
As always, all kinds of feedback are highly welcome. One of these days, I'll post something that's not a lake/reflection shot ;)
~ Jeff
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We spent an extended weekend in the Eastern Sierra mountains to see the fall colors. On day 4 we went to visit the Rock Creek Lake located high above Bishop, California. There was no wind early in the morning - perfect for a mirror reflection shot.
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Santa Barbara Beach
Santa Barbara, CA
05-16-20
The tide was pretty low, so there was lots of sand, and I really couldn't get angles with both the coastline and ocean visible in the same shot without creating wide panoramas.
The geology of this area is amazing and colorful. I was going for one of my reflection shots but the water wasn't coming back to this area of sand at the time I took this photo, so it's not wet enough for what I wanted.
Still, an outstanding cloudspray in a deep cerulean sky against a colorful rockface with trees right on the edge.
In night photography, once you get past the novelty of having captured the night sky at all, it's important to have a strong foreground subject, so your images don't seem repetitive and boring... Do you want 1000 images with the Milky Way as the subject, "Milky Way shot 109", "Milky Way shot 110", and so on, or is your location relevant? Isn't something interesting in the foreground your best subject, with the Milky Way as the backdrop?
It's also useful to have a very efficient shooting process, since we're not nocturnal, and it's better to be able to capture several subjects and compositions per hour, rather than one or two.
And who wants to spend hours at a computer? Being out at night is the rewarding part to me, Once I have the image optimized in-camera, I can always post-process and re-process those images for years to come. But typically I'd rather get back out and shoot.
So how do you optimize your image in-camera? It's good to push your camera equipment, shooting process and post-processing practices a bit, to see what the limits may be, and to practice addressing any challenges that come up. A great example is Milky Way reflection shots, where the reflection is much more faint than the direct view of the Milky Way. You could always fake the reflection, but people can do that sitting at a computer, assembling a result from stored image components. without ever leaving their desk. They don't even need to go out and shoot! Is that even photography, or is it digital art? Is the result photography, or digital art?
Everyone can make that call for themselves, but in cases where you can get a good image in-camera photographically, would you prefer to be a skilled photographer, or a skilled graphic artist? There's nothing inherently better being either, but even a skilled graphic artist will construct and produce better end results from high quality images, so you might as well be a skilled photographer first and foremost. And doing as much as possible in-camera tends to be more efficient, when you can pull it off.
In addition to Milky Way reflection shots, another challenging case is tighter zoom shots, where you don't want the stars to drag. Again, you could take multiple images, taken on the same night or whenever, and construct a result in Photoshop layers. You could take a Milky Way image taken with an ultra-wide lens and scale it up to look like you've zoomed in, (ignoring that you're losing resolution in your sky). Fortunately, that isn't at all necessary. Here I was using a 24-70mm f.2.8 lens here, so I decided to zoom in a bit and see how the camera and lens combo performed with shorter exposures, without having to buy or use a faster lens (with a wider aperture than f/2.8).
I set the exposure for reasonable values, pressed the shutter release button once, spent maybe 5-10 minutes post-processing in Lightroom (no Photoshop was used or necessary, no refocusing or focus stacking was necessary), and this was the result.
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Went for a ride with mates around the river - and stopped at the man-made beach at South Bank to get a reflection shot. Had a couple of different frames but went with this one, with the palm trees offering a balance/contrast to the CBD on the other side of the river. Not bad weather today.
A return to see the Kelpies with the family. Took the camera with me again and took a few shots. Managed to get a full reflection shot of one of the Kelpies. This was 15 minutes before they lit up but I still think its a nice shot with the moon lurking through the clouds.
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I took his shot while we were heading back to town from the spectacular maroon bells view point. I had eyed this small snowmelt puddle for its reflection potential earlier, but due to the darkness couldn’t really figure out the complete view. On our way back I could see the maroon bells reflected on the car’s side view mirror and decided to stop and head to the small pond for a reflection shot since we had almost now wind.
The scene at the pond was one of the most challenging dynamic range shot. I had to use a 3 stop ND grad filter and combine a 5 image hdr to get some detail in the sky and foreground. I would have liked a bit more detail to the left side of the image but this was the best I could do and get a natural balanced look.