Editing advice for a photo(just one! what do you do with reflections?)

Foxx · Sep 7, 2011

Took this shot today, I'm not sure which direction looks better. And if there's anything I can do to make the fact that it's a reflection in a puddle of water more evident. Thoughts?

KmH · Sep 7, 2011

Since there is no shoreline or other indicator to unequivically define the photo as a reflection, I think you're pretty much SOL either way.

Chris R · Sep 7, 2011

KmH said:
Since there is no shoreline or other indicator to unequivically define the photo as a reflection, I think you're pretty much SOL either way.

Precisely. Without something to show within the photograph that it's a reflection, it just looks like a blurry picture of a boring ol' tree.

c.cloudwalker · Sep 7, 2011

I don't think much of the subject but I like the idea. And I couldn't care less about unequivically defining this image as a reflection. This is not a photo of the building or of the tree, it is just an image. Let the viewer see what he/she wants in it. Plus I think a lot of people will figure it out if the image is presented to them as it should be: upside down.

Now of course I'm looking at it as an art shot and that makes a lot of difference. If you were to offer this image for a brochure about the building, it probably wouldn't fly...