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Title: Reflected Sky...
Post by: BHenderson on March 30, 2009, 09:47:08 PM
Here's a shot I grabbed while in traffic one day...  I was actually on the way to a Bible study :D

Shot on Kodak 400 CN.
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Title: Re: Reflected Sky...
Post by: CMH on March 31, 2009, 11:49:43 AM
I love how you got it through the mirror. NICE.
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Post by: Don on March 31, 2009, 04:35:22 PM
Interesting shot, kind of looks like the reflection was projected onto the mirror somehow.

Don
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Post by: Summicron on March 31, 2009, 07:22:03 PM
Which is sharp, the mirror or the clouds? Clouds of course, I wonder how many people realise that when photographing reflections you are focusing on the subject rather than on the reflecting surface, in this case both the clouds are sharp as are the utility poles along the street, as both are at infinity.
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Post by: BHenderson on April 01, 2009, 12:51:09 AM
Exactly!  I think thats one reason I enjoy reflected shots so much, they make you think a little harder...
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Post by: JudyB on April 03, 2009, 12:52:29 PM
Well done.  YOu have taught me here!
Title: Re: Reflected Sky...
Post by: Don on April 03, 2009, 05:44:18 PM
Thanks Summicron, I didn't realize that. I learned something today.

Don
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Post by: Summicron on April 03, 2009, 06:20:45 PM
To be honest it boggles my mind as well, there must be a technical word or phrase for it. The fact is, you photograph yourself in a mirror from five feet away, to be sharp, your camera will be focused at ten feet, so there is also this third dimension in a reflection.
Try this one, depth of field is the same whatever focal length lens you use, providing the aperture is constant say F8, and the magnification of the subject in the frame is the same in each case, its something to do with depth of field increases as distance increases, so the longer the focal length lens you use, the further away you need to be in order to keep the subject the same size, so as you move away the DOF increases relative to the distance.
Title: Re: Reflected Sky...
Post by: JudyB on April 03, 2009, 07:06:07 PM
Now that is almost beyond me.  Very interesting.
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Post by: ScottyBoy on April 03, 2009, 10:38:55 PM
Very creative. Nice cloud formation framed well by the mirror.
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Post by: JudyB on April 04, 2009, 01:48:27 AM
On Second reading I got the theory behind the focus distance. 

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Post by: CapturedByGrace on April 04, 2009, 04:10:03 PM
That is so cool!  Awesome shot.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Reflected Sky...
Post by: BHenderson on April 04, 2009, 08:32:02 PM
Thanks Everyone :)

I would assume that the focal length thing Summicron mentioned is one reason people use longer lenses for portraits...