Spring Dreams

Image Critiques
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Critique Style Requested: Standard

The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.

Description

On a warm spring day, the mix of tree reflections and the colors from the leaves on the bottom of my pond caught a “joys of spring” moment. Since the breeze was light, I could have gotten away with a shutter speed as slow as 1/125 s, but I’d been shooting my waterfall, which needs the high shutter speeds to minimize blurring and I wanted most (or all) of the frame sharp.

Specific Feedback

I wanted a fast shutter speed and significant depth-of-field to freeze the motion in the water and provide reasonable sharpness throughout. This minimizes the distortion in the tree reflections helping create a looking up feeling that I’ve enhanced by flipping the frame vertically. (Although it would be a very strange, maybe scarry, sky.)

Technical Details

R5, 180mm macro, 1/500 s, f/16, iso 6400, tripod.

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Hi Mark,
I never get tired of your pond reflections! There is infinite variety in these, and every time you post one, I’m eager to take a longer, closer look. This one is especially nice: the leaf color beneath the water covers a nice range of hues and tones, and the tree branches (some crisp, some a little blurred) create the impression of a memory.

Nice work and no suggestions!
ML

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Very cool, Mark, but I almost get a “fall” feel with the bare branches and the colors in the pond.