View allAll Photos Tagged reflection_shots
"Mountain Mornings" - Reading & Northern #425 backs slowly away from the coal dock in the former CNJ yards of Jim Thorpe, PA on the morning of July 4, 2021. Rain the previous few days left a nice puddle for a reflection shot of this former Gulf Mobile & Ohio pacific.
Long avenues
The New York Snow photo zines are now ready on Etsy
Click Here for the New York Snow Zine
Nikon D750 Nikkor 18-35 / f3.5-4.5
Smile on Saturday 'spoon and fork' theme.
I always like doing spoon (and sometimes fork) reflection shots so this was an obvious choice for the theme, though I considered polarised plastic - but didn't have a fork!. The cutlery is reflecting a picture in the 'Chihuly at Kew' book I bought on my recent visit.
A broken water main in downtown San Antonio, TX yielded a rare reflection shot at Alamo Beer/Burnet St. of this westbound UP freight. February 2021.
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.
© This photograph is copyrighted. Under no circumstances can it be reproduced, distributed, modified, copied, posted to websites or printed or published in media or other medium or used for commercial or other uses without the prior written consent and permission of the photographer.
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.
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
SETTINGS:
Canon T4i
EF-S18-135mm IS STM
@18mm
ISO 100
f/7.1
1/640th second
CPL
Thirty minutes after I arrived, at Odon this morning, the clouds took over. No matter, the various shades of gray and blue made it look interesting for shooting the Crane turn. Little did I think about there being enough of a puddle for a reflection shot. That was a nice bonus when I chimped the screen.
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.
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)
I don't often get wowed by cityscape/architectural photos but this one blew my mind. Shumon and Kenji brought me here while I was in Tokyo. A reflection shot from these thin little glass panels of Tokyo International Forum one of those shots you gotta see for yourself haha and this is one of those times where I felt the phone outperform my camera. The phone could achieve a closer distance between the glass panel and the lens making the reflections "more complete". Totally not achievable with my 14-24mm but posted one from my camera anyway. Haha.
Lake Matheson (Fox Glacier) reflection shot of Mt Tasman and Mt Cook. This is a pano of 3 portrait images.
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.
ANSH 105 (1) spoon reflections
I always like doing spoon reflection shots - in this one the spoons are placed on a page in a book about Monarch butterflies, showing hundreds (probably thousands) of the butterflies gathered together.
Shot 52/100x
I went to the park to get some reflection shots and as I was standing on the edge of the lake looking at the reflections in the water this mute swan decided to have a flap for me, giving me some added interest.
I was glad I just got it in frame.
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.
I processed a photographic and a balanced HDR photo from two RAW exposures, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
-- ƒ/9.0, 55 mm, 1/1000, 1/4000 sec, ISO 100, Sony A6000, SEL-55210, HDR, 2 RAW exposures, _DSC9719_29_hdr1pho1bal1e.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
- Anonymous.
|| insta || blog || photostream ||
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.
This is the bridge that leads to the entrance to Hillingdon Station
Simple reflection shot, I really like the light in this image
Luke Agbaimoni - Tubemapper.com
A fisheye reflection shot at night after the rain of Darul Hana Bridge at Kuching Waterfront, Sarawak, East Malaysia.
I went to Eyeworth Pond In the New Forest yesterday found ducks on the ice. Ideal for reflection shots.
I've called this Reflections...because the man half way up looked liked he was reflecting about something...what better place to do that than on a Jetty/Pier!
For years, I resisted ever taking a vacation unless it focused on nothing but SCUBA diving. How things have changed.
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Kendra and I decided on a long weekend up around Lake Tahoe. The cheap lodging and easy access to several different shooting locations helped play a part in our decision. Being close to casinos and a multitude of Safeways, Subways, and Starbucks was an unexpected surprise.
For our first day, we got up at 6am to finish packing and get to Tahoe by lunch time, thus allowing ourselves plenty of time to scout out and find Bonsai Rock. It seemed like a good place to start as the weather forecast called for worsening wind and potential snow showers as the weekend progressed. Stephen Oachs had mentioned something about reflections and wind, and yeah they don't mix.
Kendra is the GPS queen, and she loaded up a bunch of spots for us to check out. As we drove around the lake, she would randomly tell me how fast I was driving by looking at her GPS. As we passed Sand Harbor, I knew Bonsai Rock was close and told Kendra to look out the window for it as it is down a relatively steep incline from the highway.
"But the GPS says we have four more miles", she said. "No", I replied,"it's only about half a mile or so from Sand Harbor". At that instant, I hear "there it is!" and the GPS chimes in that we had reached our destination. Funny how four miles can be covered in 30 seconds. Good job GPS.
So this is my reflections shot, you won't see many more reflections from me out of this trip. The weather forecasters were pretty accurate.
I did pick up a couple new toys before the trip. One being a Singh-Ray Gold-N-Blue polarizer. This polarizer is like giving a drug addict an unlimited supply of funds and making them immune to the legal system. I rarely took this filter off as it was a great opportunity to see what it could do. I felt I needed this little "preface" in order to help explain some of the far out and whacky colors that I will be posting over the next week or two. And if you don't know about the Gold-N-Blue polarizer by Singh-Ray, read more here.
I hope everyone had a great long weekend, and I will be slowly catching up with you all over the next few days!
Nikon D300
Nikkor 12-24mm @ 12mm
15sec @ f14, ISO 100
Singh-Ray Gold-N-Blue Polarizer
Lee .9 and .6 Soft GND Filters
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.
P&W NR-4 passes Packer's Pond in Plainfield after leaving the yard for Willimantic. This would be a perfect spot for a reflection shot, if it weren't for all the algae.
Light the World back lighting on this almost real light bulb creates unusual light reflections, shot in North Carolina.
- Thomas Carlyle.
| facebook | 500px | ferpectshotz |
Another shot from the spectacular valley view scenic vista point at Yosemite Valley. I took this shot when we visited the Yosemite National Park this winter. This is a pretty popular destination and I myself have posted pics from this location before. So I wanted to capture this shot a bit differently and I my opinion his location is spectacular shortly after sunrise. I reached on time and as ready, I also had planned to take a panorama stitch using a slightly normal focal length instead of the Wide angle I usually go for.
While setting up the tripod I realized that the wind had died down and it resulted in almost perfect reflection of the epic peaks on Merced River. This almost never happens for me and I was quick to keep clicking and got about 100 odd pictures before the wind picked up and the reflections were lost. Funny thing was that I had amazing reflection shots at three different locations at the valley that day. Felt pretty cool about that. Thanks for visiting and the encouragement. Hope you all have a great weekend.
- Leonardo da Vinci.
| facebook | 500px | ferpectshotz |
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.
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….
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
Reflected Resonance, I promise I will not post a water reflection shot every day, just every other day! :-))))) Remember I have lots of these!!
Have a great weekend everyone!!
This is my second Kilchurn reflection shot, of which i have decided to convert to black & white. I like it................hope you do to :-))
After all the cloudy shots from the Chicago trip I've been posting (with more to come), I thought it'd be fun to look back to a sunny summer evening, and so we head to Hoxie Pond on Cape Cod.
While the whole line could use a good brush cutting at this point, there's still a nice reflection shot to be had. Here we see the dinner train heading west, intent on making their bridge window at Canal Junction so they can head down the Falmouth Branch, both to give patrons a nice view of the sunset, and to clear up off the main so the Cape Flyer can also make the bridge window to get back to the mainland.
A perfect reflection shot of one of the lakes in Columbia N.W.R. Just then, if you look closely, a muskrat swam by.
"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 :-)
In June we went to the de Young museum, located in San Francisco's Golden Gate park. Perfect for a reflection shot.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, carefully adjusted the curves, and desaturated the image. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
-- ƒ/2.2, 50 mm, 1/4000 sec, ISO 200, Sony A6000, SEL-50F18, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC0941_hdr1bal1h.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography