Pool Reflections
And now for something completely different..
I was taking pictures at my son's first swim meet (or "swimming gala" for British readers) this past Saturday and, in addition to loads of images of kids swimming, I also grabbed some abstracts of the reflections in the pool. After some serious mucking around in Lightroom, I was rather pleased with this one so here it is.
Exif Information
- ApertureValue: f/5.6
- ShutterSpeedValue: 1/249 sec
- ISOSpeedRatings: 2200
- ExposureProgram: Manual
- ExposureBiasValue: 0.5 EV
- Flash: No Flash
- FocalLength: 200 mm
- Model: NIKON D700
- Make: Nikon Corporation
- MaxApertureValue: f/2.8
- Copyright: Copyright (c) Dave Wilson, 2011
- MeteringMode: Center Weighted Average
Comments (6)
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Scott Wyden Kivowitz on July 11th, 2011 at 6:55 am
Really cool abstract!
Chris Frailey on July 11th, 2011 at 8:12 am
It almost looks like liquid metal.
Brian Furbush on July 11th, 2011 at 8:25 am
Now that is a very very cool shot Dave – absolutely LOVE the abstract, would love to know how you “mucked” around in LR!
Curt Fleenor on July 11th, 2011 at 11:53 am
This is wonderful Dave – I love the look you came up with for it!
Dave Wilson on July 11th, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Thanks, folks.
Brian, I took a look at my LR develop settings for this one and, although I worked on it for some time, it seems that the final version didn’t have too many tweaks outside the tone curve. I pulled the contrast up and saturation down in the Basic panel and modified the tone curve for medium contrast with shados -85, darks -31, lights +9 and highlights +3. Aside from a bit of noise reduction (it was shot at 2200ISO) and sharpening, that’s it.
atmtx on July 11th, 2011 at 10:45 pm
Wonderfully done, Dave. Love the abstract.