Mirror Mirror on the wall - or the puddle on the street or water surface of the pond, or the lake.
Use reflections to increase the impact the image has from the rays of light hitting the water or the color of the trees and flower reflecting in the pond makes the image go from good photo to great photo.
These type of photos will capture a whole different view from the norm.
What you are looking to do to capture a Reflective Image is to move your focus and angle to get the reflection to be the center of attention and focus. These photos will require you to be patient (Letting the wind and breeze die down) You will often have to move the lens pointing it downwards more and possibly adjusting the exposure to adjust the overall brightness and contrast of this image but as you will see below the results are worth the time and effort. Just as a note you may need to have a Polarizer Filter
But if you would like to be even more creative with Reflections - Only take a photo of the reflection itself and what the reflection sees.
Below is a sample thumbnail of one of these photos:
This photo is from a collection of photos of this type
By Vlado Marinkovic
His gallery has some wonderful photos taken of just reflections.
Some additional resources of reflection photography can be found at the follow resources.
Surfaces & Streaming by Steven Jusczyk
- Both two really interesting galleries.
Plus Reflection Art - By And Patrick HANEZ
Marcia Smilak - Wrote up an interesting piece called Reflections of the mind about Reflections with some powerful photography.
And Located on Flickr - Here is an inverted Reflection of a boat by JerseyImage
Also located on Flickr - is a Hint of Color by HB19
Now that you have a few good examples - Go out and create your reflection photos - If you take any let us know and post a link to them in the comments section.
Have fun and Stay warm…..
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