Trey Foerster
December 2024 - Walleye
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About the Image(s)
My camera club has a contest category of Reflection and I came across this image in a parking lot in New London, Wisconsin, which is adjacent to a river. Walleye fishing is big in this area of Wisconsin. I have flipped the final image to emphasize the reflection for the contest. LR, PS, and Topaz Studio processing. Tech stuff: f/10, 1/400 sec., ISO 200, exposure bias -0.3, 31mm focal length
5 comments posted
This is a very interesting and successful image Trey. It's one of those images that a viewer cannot simply just walk past, without pausing to look closely into. Your processing from original to final is very well done. Can I ask a question on a very small detail please? In your club contest, were there any comments on the number plates on the cars? Posted: 12/12/2024 02:54:56
Ian, the contest isn't until April so I've got time to improve on this image. As to your question on license plates, do mean to blur them out? Or do you mean something else? In street photography, what's there is what's there, and no need to blur our car plates unless it's in some news report about something dastardly. What I like about the cars is that they are the same color. Posted: 12/12/2024 15:53:24
What I meant Trey was the writing on the number plates is backwards. We often hear that if there is some writing in an image, we automatically focus in on it and read it. Posted: 12/19/2024 11:00:19
Nice catch Ian, but flipping the image back to original (which I would prefer) shows why the plates are reversed. Posted: 12/19/2024 21:08:14
Which begs the question: Why are you looking at the plates when they have nothing to do with the mural, which is the focal point of the image? The category is Reflection, so the category emphasizes the reflection by flipping the image. Which then prompts the question: Which is more impactful, the original image with reflection at the bottom (which Sanford likes) or the reflection at the top? Posted: 12/19/2024 21:39:12