Fall & Reflections, harvesting from the haze

dan swiger

Well-Known Member
Another shot along the Merced mid-day. The nice thing about haze is that it cuts the highlights:D
I liked the mix of colors in the reflections at the foot of trees. Another week & the cottonwoods will turn..

5DMk2, hand held/3 shot bracket
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Dan
 

JimFox

Moderator
Staff member
Hey Dan,

Nice composition, I like the leaves in the water.

One rule of thumb I have when shooting reflections, I look at what's being reflected, and I want the same amount of detail in the non reflected portion. So your cliff walls look awesome in the reflection, but looking at them behind the trees in the background they are all washed out and over exposed. Myself I would correct that.

Now in this case, you do have a bit of a tough exposure going on, because the trees are not being lit by the sun, so they are much darker then the background cliffs. Normally you can just do an easy blend, 1 for the reflection, and 1 for everything else in the scene. In this case luminosity masking will save the day, that is if you did bracket and have an exposure where you did expose for those background cliffs not being blown out. If you have that, then just go to our Articles section, and I have an Article on a super easy and simple blend that will increase your DR of the image and bring balance the back cliffs with the reflection.
 
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