Reflections of a Rainforest
This photograph was taken on a trip to the Mount Coot-tha Botanical Gardens. The Gardens are located at the foot of Mount Coot-tha in Toowong. I noticed the stillness of the water which gave this clear reflection. The picture has been resized using Microsoft Office Picture Manager. Tell me what you think of this picture.
Some technical information
Dimensions: 1024 x 683
Focal Length: 18mm
ISO: 400
F number: f/9
White Balance: Automatic
Metering: Partial
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pdavila90 says:
Hello there.
The background isn't too bad. It looks like a nice location. However, the reflections are great. They are definitely the interesting part of the photo! I like the photo overall.
Very atmospheric foto. Lots of interesting botanical detail. and the stillness of the water is unusual. congrats.
ReplyDeleteMichael John Banks --shooting in a forest with a sunny day is going to give you massive lighting contrasts. I shoot this sort of stuff on overcast days. longer exposures but a better picture--the colours may be a tad cooler though. Sometimes you may get a green cast which you will have to modify on the faces of people shot under a canopy unless you use a bit of flash.
ReplyDeleteZoe Jorgensen A bit of OCF would probably have done wonders. Agree with everything said so far and want to add I think the white balance is way too cool....
ReplyDeleteOdille Esmonde-Morgan Crop out the top 1/3 and just have the gorgeous reflection
ReplyDeleteWilliam Long top is way too bright, and that could be improved a bit in post - alternatively get in right in camera with a Neutral Density Graduation filter (which you could add in post)
ReplyDeleteDarlia Argyris Yeah, The top is too bright. Just turned it upside down and it gives it a bit of a different edge with the reflection. If you're into that sort of thing with a bit of cropping. However it may not work well in full screen, I'm on my phone!
ReplyDeleteSedg White Way too busy for my liking and like the others have said, the contrasts in exposures are too extreme.
ReplyDeleteGlen Flower Hey Craig. You've found a scene that has some interesting things in it. What most people do in these circumstances is jump right in and start snapping away. What might be a useful exercise to do is to find something like this and don't think about taking a photo at first. Just stop, look around and ask yourself what is interesting about it? Quite often you can come up with a very short list of what is interesting. Now think, what is not so interesting? Sometimes people call this deciding what to 'say' in a photo. So, as an exercise get your camera and try to frame (compose) so you include the interesting bits and exclude the bits which aren't needed. One excellent way to do this is to use a tripod (even in broad daylight) and play with the composition until you've got everything in frame you want in frame and you've excluded everything that's not interesting. That's "finding the frame". As for exposure - yes as above but also if you're going out just for photos think about a time of day where the bright parts even out with the dark parts - normally early and late in the day - the golden hours. A GND may help but that's difficult to use in this case because of the dark sides. If you're interested I can recommend you a few books on composition.
ReplyDeleteGlen Flower Books: "Within The Frame" David Du Chemin, and "The Photographer's Eye" Michael Freeman - the first talks about thinking about photography more and the second talks about all those things you might hear about like Golden ratios and Gestalt somethings - i.e. it takes some reading. There are heaps of free articles on the internet about composition if you're interested - many people stop at "rule of thirds". Of course all the books in the world are no good if you dont get out and practice it.
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