Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Reflections

One of my favorite things to do when I'm taking pictures is to use reflections of things to set the scene rather than to take the picture head on. A couple weeks ago, we had Norm and Dori over and we were all sitting in a circle in the glorious sun. I couldn't get up to take a picture of all of us in a circle because I was going to miss half the faces. I couldn't take a picture while still sitting in the circle because my lens isn't wide enough.

So I found a reflection I could use. FIL D glasses.

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It wasn't perfect, but it was usable. You can see Dori, Norm, Matt and part of my leg in the second one. In the first one, you can see all of us except for MIL J, only part of her. She was sitting just far enough back not to be in the reflection.

Try it out, use reflections in glass, water, metal...anything to create the ultimate image.

FFR