Lotus effect!

[Indranil Sircar]

Nancy and Paul's posting earlier in the week reminded me of an image I took last year in December while visiting the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand. As I was walking around I saw the reflection of the temples and pagodas in water drops on lotus pads. I spent some time composing few images and this one I liked the most. I have few other ones which I will post over time. I used Canon G11 in Macro mode with 1/80 sec @f4. For processing, I cropped and cleaned some bubbles in the drop and then adjusted the exposure, saturation, selective colors and also applied curves for increased contrast. Hope you like it...

[Cheryl Slechta]

Indranil, this is very interesting. I love the golds in the image. Maybe a tiny bit more on the bottom so the leaf tip isn't cut off?

[Indranil Sircar]

Thanks Cheryl. I should have taken care of that while cropping... here is the repost...

[Kerry Perkins]

Indranil, I like the way the gold of the palace complements green of the lotus pad. The added canvas on the bottom was a good suggestion.

[denise ippolito]

Indranil, A very unique capture of the Palace in the reflection, I like the repost!

[Michael Gerald-Yamasaki]

Indranil,

Greetings. Cool drop reflection. Wish the leaf were more in focus... tried Topaz Infocus (to the maximum w/ the temple mostly masked)...



Just a thought... Infocus would produce better results on a larger base image... or successive smaller adjustments with Infocus rather than just cranking the settings.

Cheers,

-Michael-

[Brendan Dozier]

Interesting capture & comp, Indranil, and good eye to see that. Really like the detail you can see of the palace in the reflection The added canvas at bottom looks good, and Michael makes a good point about trying to increase sharpness of leaf.

[Indranil Sircar]

Indranil,

Greetings. Cool drop reflection. Wish the leaf were more in focus... tried Topaz Infocus (to the maximum w/ the temple mostly masked)...

Just a thought... Infocus would produce better results on a larger base image... or successive smaller adjustments with Infocus rather than just cranking the settings.

Cheers,

-Michael-

Hi Michael, Thanks a lot. Good point. I did try with smaller aperture but the leaf was not very clean and overpowering. Infocus is good option. I will try it on the larger base image. Thanks for posting the revised version.

[Indranil Sircar]

Kerry, Denise, Brendan, thanks for your comments. I appreciate it.