While taking a wonderful journey by motorcycles with a good friend and fellow DPC'er, we happened upon this lovely little pond near a vineyard. I stopped to see if I could get a reflection of the Goose and Steve rode on down the road. Just as I was about to hang it up he returned to see what I was up to and took a few shots too. I wonder if he'll submit one?
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Original date/time: 2005:10:17 13:46:25
Original date/time subsecs: 12
Exposure time: 1/90
F-stop: 12.0
ISO speed: 500
Focal length: 120.0000
Focal length (35mm): 180
Exposure bias: 0.0000
Metering mode: Pattern
Exposure program: Normal
Gain control: Low gain up
Contrast: Hard
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: Normal
Nikon ISO speed: 500
Nikon color mode: MODE1
Nikon quality: FINE
Nikon focus mode: AF-C
Nikon white bal coef: 2.0430,1.3164,1.0000,1.0000
Nikon tone compensation: HIGH
Nikon light type: NATURAL
Nikon hue adjust: 3
Camera model: NIKON D1X
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I'd like to see it right side up. Although this is interesting, the ripples are distracting, and I think it would be better to use the same crop but right side up. Good luck!
edited after i spoke to you by PM
i think the position of the goose works really effectively, as your eye is drawn down the image through the reflections towards the reflected goose.
nice creative approach
Mmmm..... like an Impressionist's painting. Very well balanced with rich, pleasant colors. If I could make a crop suggestion, it would be to break up the top into right half frame width green and left half blue, by bringing the top down until it just excludes the white dot upper left/center. Yeah, you'd lose a lot of those leaves, but you don't need them up at the top left. The viewer will feel them. 8.
It takes time to realize what is going on in this pic and I think it is only a good thing! I like also the smallness of the bird and however, it is the biggest element in a photo! A little minus is that the photo is a little out of focus.
Neat idea, but there is so much going on that it is very hard for me to see what I am looking at. You had the benefit of seeing the entire scene and then finding an interesting part. Those of us seeing only this part might struggle a little as I am.
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