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Image Description
Seeing the world in the surface of the pond…
Technical Details
Canon 5DmkIII IR 720nm
Canon TS-E 50mm f/2.8
f/16, 1/60th, iso 100
3 image shifted pano
Tripod
ACR/PS/Silver Efex
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Very nice! I love the layers of detail in the reflection. I feel that I’d like more detail in the bright water lily leaves. The brightest reflection near the center pulls my eye a bit and I wonder about making it darker. But all in all, I think this is a wonderful find and presentation!
Excellent intimate landscape. I too feel the brightest tree in the middle of the image captures too much attention, may you try to darken it and seee how it looks?
My initial reaction is Tarkovsky. This is like something he would create a scene around. It’s mysterious, as in multiple worlds of awareness. I also get a sense of movement. Maybe that’s because I get the feeling that the water was moving and you froze it in time. Excellent work in my opinion.
Dizzying is my initial reaction. It takes a minute or two to orient one’s eyes to what is going on. Once that happens, the reflection’s depth is fabulous. I feel like the floating leaves need to be dodged in an attempt to regain some of their details.
@guy this is such an interesting picture. My initial reaction was to look at it again and again
The image has a lot of depth and layers, which I did not realise right away… I had to keep looking and go past the water lilies on the surface to realise just how complex this composition is. The scene and it’s intepretation transcents and takes other forms for me… It very soon looked like a depiction of our universe, with stars, nebulas and so forth. I really like it, and it’s an example of how nature photography can have a more expressive aspect to it.
That’s it, again, very well done, this is awsome. Don’t know what your intend was, I’ll check now as I’m pretty curious
