Light on Water

Gallery: LandscapePosted November 2, 200970 views4 comments

A colorful leaf caught in a shallow stream and held in place by moss is the setting. Loaction: Flint Hills region, NE Kansas, USA.
The lack of a polarizing filter allowed the light to play on the ripples.

D700, 30-105 zoom manual Nikkor, f/5.6, 1/125 sec., ISO 200. Capture NX2 adjustments were saturation and increase of gren tone in moss; 20% crop.

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Andreas Resch on November 2, 2009 at 4:00 PM

Very nice colors and refractions here. But overall it's just a little too "simple" for me and I somehow miss an idea in here.

Registered on November 14, 2007, 322 Posts, 6101 Comments

Comment posted by Morris McClung on November 2, 2009 at 6:51 PM

Very nice waves of light and color.

Registered on May 7, 2007, 670 Posts, 19650 Comments

Comment posted by Lon Overacker on November 3, 2009 at 9:57 PM

Larry,

The highlights of the ripples really make the image for me - in addition to the great color combination. Great job deciding not to use the polarizer. I think this is great! The only suggestion I have would be a crop from the bottom as an alternative composition. I say that because I go back and forth between the orange leave and the clump of moss at the bottom. The leaf trumps so that's why I'm suggesting a crop from the bottom. But that's just a suggestion.

Lon

Registered on November 24, 2006, 521 Posts, 19147 Comments

Comment posted by Larry Fischer on November 4, 2009 at 7:59 AM

Quite a wide opinion on this shot....

Lon, I left the moss in the photo to spread the play of light.

I see what you mean by the leaf's color "trumping" the moss. Are you saying to basically feature the leaf with just a small portion of moss on the bottom with a vertical crop??

Thanks for all the C and C.

the fisch

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