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After the Challenge To be honnest, I never expected this to win, it was a last minute submission.
The whole week we had a clear sky, and I wanted clouds. Just before the challenge started some clouds came in so I drove the 100Km again in the middle of the night to take this shot.
The water was moving to strong, so I used an extremely long shuttertime to get the reflection in the water.
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Perfect! And amazing that the windmill blades are so motionless and sharp. The star is like an encoded EXIF - "this is a long exposure". What time of morning is the shot?
Perfect! And amazing that the windmill blades are so motionless and sharp. The star is like an encoded EXIF - "this is a long exposure". What time of morning is the shot?
A lovely gem added to DPC and one that will entertain the viewers senses for months to come. Congratulations on your Blue. This is a spectacular study.
Echt, ik zweer je, ik zat op een 6.2 op een gegeven moment, en aangezien er een paar shots tussen zitten die veel beter zijn...
Het ging om de reflectie, en die heb ik bijna niet.
Ach ja, niet verdient, wel gekregen. En het gevoel is lekker, maar het overtreft zeker niet mijn eerste keer dat ik een ribbon scoorde. Ik ben toen de hele week van slag geweest.
Extraordinary image, congratulations!!For me photography is all about creating a feeling in the soul of the one who's looking at the picture!This is one of those pictures...
It sais something!
Congratulations!
lovely photo! i think that the windmill and bridge are more the focus of this picture than the reflection...at least, they demand more of my attention than the reflection. gorgeous colors in the sky.
Very colorful and well composed shot. The bridge just carries you to the windmill. The water has an unusually even blurring effect here... almost as if it was photoshop blurred. I would be very interested in how you accomplished it... DoF? a kind wind? Whatever you did, it made a great impact.
What exposure time did you use? I really like the soft effect of the water, which I can only assume was done with a long exposure time, but then the windmill couldn't have been spinning....
It's funny, someone mentioned this to me in one of my photos...you can't seem to have a sky photograph these days without having some sort of jetstream! In any event, I love the long exposure to smooth out the water here. A technique I need to start doing myself on certain photos.
I voted this as if it met the basic challenge as its very well done... if it wasn't the shimmering breeze that made the waterr (reflection) so nice ... what did you do to get that effect & the correct exposure on the railing?
Beautiful colours, good composition, a bit too 'soft' IMO and the little white airplane stripe above the mill distracts me. I would have liked it better if the reflection would be sharper.
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