What's your Impression?

[Bitter Jeweler]

After another photo safari, I was delighted with this image when I came home. It looks very much like an impressionist painting. This is through the lens, I only upped the saturation and contrast. This image is cropped out of a little larger image, that may help explain whats going on here. I'll post it later. I am interested to hear your impressions of this image. :thumbdown:/:thumbup:?

 

[Josh66]

Cool! :thumbup:

Reflection on water? Or did you shoot through something?

 

[c.cloudwalker]

Very cool :thumbup:

 

[chammer]

yea, it really does look like a painting. i love it! it does look like a reflection too as it looks to be upside down?

 

[makenottake]

It reminds me of the sidewalk art Dick van Dyke's character drew in "Mary Poppins". Very cool!

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Here is the original image.

 

[Josh66]

Aquarium?

 

[chammer]

ok...so what is it?!

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

It is flowers/weeds reflected in the paint of a car door. See the door seam?
Now, What I can't figure out is, is that reflective bokeh, or caused by textured paint?

We went to the Volvo Graveyard this morning. Fun trip.
Theres more in my Flickr thing.

 

[shortpballer]

THAT LOOKS AMAZING!!!! good job... love the surreal factor of the picture :thumbup:

 

[Josh66]

reflected in the paint of a car door.

...Never would have guessed...

 

[shortpballer]

love the way you cropped it too by the way...never would have guessed what it is...

 

[c.cloudwalker]

Very cool. Definitely would use the full frame image. The seam makes you wonder even more what it is in a way.

And I also wonder why the reflection looks like this. You mention texture, was the paint textured? Never seen textured paint on a car :scratch:

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Well, no, the paint wasn't textured. So does bokeh happen in reflection? That's what I don't get. I manually focussed this. Auto focus couldn't find it. Is this some strange optic/light/reflection science?

 

[Josh66]

So does bokeh happen in reflection?

Sure. Out of focus is out of focus.