Oak Leaf Reflection

nerwin · Mar 1, 2018

I am so proud of my self for taking this shot. I've been planning this shot for a long time and I finally nailed it! I've been wanting to get a shot of a oak leaf in a puddle with its reflection. But I could never for the life of me find an oak leaf. But I did today and there was a puddle so I setup my shot and starting pictures.

Nikon D610 + 70-200 f/4 VR
180mm, 1/500th, f/5.6, ISO 400

Is it perfect? Nope. But it's close enough for me!

BrentC · Mar 1, 2018

Great shot!

OldManJim · Mar 1, 2018

Nicely done!

otherprof · Mar 1, 2018

nerwin said:
I am so proud of my self for taking this shot. I've been planning this shot for a long time and I finally nailed it! I've been wanting to get a shot of a oak leaf in a puddle with its reflection. But I could never for the life of me find an oak leaf. But I did today and there was a puddle so I setup my shot and starting pictures.

Nikon D610 + 70-200 f/4 VR
180mm, 1/500th, f/5.6, ISO 400

Is it perfect? Nope. But it's close enough for me!

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Beautiful!

jcdeboever · Mar 1, 2018

Excellent

zulu42 · Mar 2, 2018

Awesome shot Nerwin!

zombiesniper · Mar 2, 2018

Patience and planning has paid of with an excellent image.
Congrats.

smoke665 · Mar 2, 2018

Not perfect but 99.99999999% is pretty darn close. Well done.

Dean_Gretsch · Mar 2, 2018

Wow! That is awesome! You definitely should be proud.

fishing4sanity · Mar 2, 2018

Great idea + skillful execution = beautiful photo

fishing4sanity · Mar 3, 2018

I keep coming back to look at this photo, so I decided to give it a POTM nomination

nerwin · Mar 3, 2018

fishing4sanity said:
I keep coming back to look at this photo, so I decided to give it a POTM nomination

Thank you!!

bulldurham · Mar 5, 2018

A bit of a nitpik that while I gave it a "Winner's" tag, I might have given it a tad more DoF so the folded edge of the leaf was a bit more sharp. This would have given the reflected areas a little more "omph!"

nerwin · Mar 5, 2018

bulldurham said:
A bit of a nitpik that while I gave it a "Winner's" tag, I might have given it a tad more DoF so the folded edge of the leaf was a bit more sharp. This would have given the reflected areas a little more "omph!"

Yeah I realized that after. It was a compromise though because there was distracting elements behind the leaf and if I gave more DOF, it would've made the background more messy.