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Reflections, there is this thing with reflections and photographers that they just have to incorporate them even if the photo still sucks. Yes, I said sucks. Reflections are beautiful but that knowledge doesn’t make a photograph with reflections automatically beautifully. I’m not suggesting what you see here as beautiful or as suckie, but rather just photographs to talk about a couple of points. For the record, I like this reflection, both versions.<\/p>\n

Reflections obvious reflect some object. In this discussion we have reality and perceptions, reality is the object and perceptions are the reflections. The most common question I ask when I see reflection photos is, “which has the better exposure, the reality or the perception?” Typically its the perception because water, what creates the reflection, automatically sucks up one stop of light. That generally gives the perception the better exposure. The better exposure brings out better colors and blacks. So, in this scenario as I was being lazy, I used a split grad in post to make the exposure for reality match that of the perception.<\/p>\n

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Now in perfecting the lines, we were out on a floating dock. The required shooting handheld and not on a tripod. In this case, I was shooting with the Df<\/a> \/ 24-70AFS<\/a> and NOT a polarizer<\/a>. Why not a polarizer? Many ask if they are needed when shooting reflections. They are only if you want to REMOVE the reflection which is their purpose. Since the lines of the trunks in the water is what drew my attention to the reflection, the use of a polarizer would have minimized if not removed most of them. With that being the case, a polarizer in this case wasn’t the right tool. While the straight lines were so cool, with a little wiggle of the dock we were on, we could had a zag to those lines and I kinda liked that as well. So when working reflections, make sure you’re photo is really a photo and not just a neat personal experience and then use to the tools so the perception is better than reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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