On Reflection

[ucci]

This was taken around 6am. I was down at the dam pumping water. I thought it was a nice reflection in the water and the interplay of the sunlight and shadows in the background I found appealing.
Thanks for viewing

[Mike Buckley]

That's a difficult composition to pull off. The next time you're there, consider taking advantage of the same characteristics but using a vertical orientation or any number of other compositions.

The nice thing about reflections is is that they make it really easy to accurately level the scene during post-processing. You do that by ensuring that a line drawn between the original source and its reflection is perfectly vertical. The bad thing about reflections is that they make it really easy to see when an image isn't perfectly level. Check that detail out with this image.

[Wavelength]

Very peaceful

[Shadowman]

Very nice.

[ucci]

That's a difficult composition to pull off. The next time you're there, consider taking advantage of the same characteristics but using a vertical orientation or any number of other compositions.

The nice thing about reflections is is that they make it really easy to accurately level the scene during post-processing. You do that by ensuring that a line drawn between the original source and its reflection is perfectly vertical. The bad thing about reflections is that they make it really easy to see when an image isn't perfectly level. Check that detail out with this image.

I take your point Mike. But gum trees, ours anyway, don't always grow vertically. And this one, which we call The Duchess, does have a lean on it away from the vertical. And this shift from the vertical is exactly transposed in the water reflection. As a matter of interest I went back and checked several of the background trees on the hills behind, whose trunks were clearly visible. All passed the vertical test.
Thank you for input and comment. Your point is well made and has been taken on board.

[Mike Buckley]

Ken,

At the risk of belaboring the point, when I click and hold your image in the Lytebox and move it to the left, I can position the reflection of the tall tree's far left group of leaves so the left edge of that group is just barely "touching" the left side of my monitor. When I do so, the corresponding point in the tree itself is not "touching" the edge of my monitor; instead, the sky is displayed between that edge of my monitor and the leaves. That indicates that the image is slightly tilted to the right, as I had noticed when I first viewed it without going to the trouble of viewing it in the Lytebox.

At this small size, that's no big deal. When the image is displayed at a larger size, the tilt is likely to be more noticeable.