Mirrorlake

Hello

The Image taken with a Canon EOS 1D Mark III + Polarizer

I hope you enjoy it, and feel free to critique it ...

Best Regards

Helmut Steidl AUSTRIA

Amazing reflection.

Absolutely stunning.  Crispness and depth of field with the very light fog makes this capture a candidate for any outdoor magazine cover!  Best regards.

Marvelous composition..... beautiful reflections. Best regards.

Beautiful reflection!Regards..

Simply beautiful lanscape with amazingly clear reflection.Bravo!

Salutations-Laurent

Der richtige Mann zur richtigen Zeit am richtigen Ort. Klasse.

Great reflection, and the fog on the lake is perfect.  The polarizer has caused some banding in the sky (dark blue close to the center, very light blue just a short distance away over the peaks on the right); some people find this objectionable, while others are not bothered by it.  Personally, I never use a polarizer on a wide angle lens when the sky is in the frame; I save it for use in the interior of a forest to cut down on reflections off wet vegetation, and I'll darken the sky digitally if necessary.

Firstly beautiful light and crisp reflections. I know how difficult it can be to get the conditions just right. My only point would be that I'm not sure the scene fits this format quite so well. There is in my opinion a little too much dead space in the foreground. I think a 50/50 sky/ foreground may have worked better, maybe you tried this anyway. But better still I know I would have taken three shots in portrait format and later stitched them and cropped to square to leave the end of the point of land 1/3 into the frame. I realise the square format is not favourable to everyone but it is very versatile in that you can later crop to either portrait or landscape if you need to and still have the native filesize, so in effect you are covering all the bases. I hope this is helpful to you and this is certainly an eye-catching shot.

All the best, Dave.

I know what David is saying about the extra amount of foreground (forewater?), but Helmut's composition is perhaps the best way to present a cloudless landscape with water reflections.  Otherwise, the image simply looks too symmetrical and becomes relatively boring.  I'd certainly want to have too much water rather than too much sky.  The only other solution for this particular shot is to toss a small pebble into the water to break up the strict reflection and add a small item of interest to the foreground.  I think David has presented this in the best way possible, and he's working with relatively difficult elements, despite the serene beauty of the place.

Very simple but enjoyable view!