Reflection

[Nick Palmieri]

I am working on reflections in drips and did this one the other day with Roman. Was a ton of work...was not originally thrilled with this one but looking again today its sort of growing on me. All done in camera. Opinions appreciated...

[Patti Edens]

Oh my! I think it is wonderful. With the flower that is in the reflection also showing in the photo makes it very special. I have yet to get one of these. I have tried many times, but never come away with a sharp image in the reflection. All I have are lots of excuses - wind, water drops not holding, too narrow DOF, etc. I think I will get some flowers from the grocery store and set this up in my house with tripod, clamps, glycerine water drops and see if I can't finally get one... one of these days.

Great job!

Patti

[Indranil Sircar]

Wow... that is really excellent, Nick. Great colors and excellent sharpness. TFS.

[denise ippolito]

Nick, This is something different. I like the reflection in the drop. Could you tell us a little more about how you did this. What was your exif? I know that will help some that want to try it. You gave me a great idea. I will try to work on it this week.:)

[Nick Palmieri]

We had the leaf in the front and used glycerin to make a drop (just a little frustrating!). The flower was a few inches behind the leaf, we moved the rear flower around until we had a good refection. The camera was tripod mounted. Used a 100mm macro lens with three stacked extension tubes and a ring flash (+1/3). ISO 400, SS 1/160, f/20. This was after a lot of experiments. Have to do a lot more to perfect this one. I almost forgot it is critical to focus directly on the flower in the drip.

[Mark Fuge]

Nice image and application, Nick.

Only comment is it would be nice to have the back flower a little more in or out of focus. I would opt for a softer image. Maybe a softening layer would help. It seems to be on a distracting level for me. But ... very nice and your image ... Your vision.

[denise ippolito]

Nick, Thank you very much for the info. I can't wait to try this!!:) Big Congrats on the 2 Federation wins!!

[Nick Palmieri]

Thanks Denise. My teaching schedule is ending, maybe a day at Roman's studio (I mean his dining room) with the three of us could lessen the learning curve. I have a million ideas on this one!

Thanks Mark, I wanted that rear flower completely out of focus. I think short of Photoshop it would be very difficult if not impossible to keep both in focus. Maybe different lenses...

[Mark Fuge]

... Thanks Mark, I wanted that rear flower completely out of focus. I think short of Photoshop it would be very difficult if not impossible to keep both in focus. Maybe different lenses...

I would lean toward having it more out of focus as well. PS may be the answer??? Just a comment, as it was somewhat bothering to me and therefore took away just a little from your great image. But still nice. ;)

[Nicki Gwynn Jones]

Hi Nick,
LOVE that reflection, but I too would like to have had the rear flower more out of focus. What are these Federation wins of which Denise speaks? Congrats anyway :)