Talla Reflection

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• messenger1 (4464)
• [2009-09-13 4:36]

Hello, Derek -
Extremely beautiful image - the 10-second exposure time made the water and reflection wonderfully smooth with a dream-like quality. Fine composition with great balance; warm colors; very sharp details despite the long exposure time. Very nice work.

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• Hazara14 (636)
• [2009-09-13 6:08]

very nice short and beautiful reflection in water and the color is just perfect Weldon

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• s_a_s_h_a (2961)
• [2009-09-13 6:14]

Hi derek,
Fantastic view and wonderful place. Excellent shot with good composition, vivid colors and beautiful reflection in the water.
Great work.

Best regards,
Alex

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• teamill (5304)
• [2009-09-13 7:03]

Wow! It's a beauty Derek! The colors are so sharp and so vivid, and that glassy water and reflections ...beautiful! Love the composition too.
Trudy

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• Lorenzi (580)
• [2009-09-13 7:37]

Hello Derk,

very beautiful reflections on a well balanced composition.
Good work
Regards
Laurent

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• yopiefranz (1433)
• [2009-09-13 8:19]

Hi Derek,
it's an a fantastic landscape view with great colors, sharpness and contrast.
The reflection of trees, bridge and pump house are so terrific.
So peaceful.

yopie

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• sorinabal (7246)
• [2009-09-13 10:14]

Hello Derek,

Splendid photo you present here, the colors and reflection are great, also impressive clarity. Very good composition as well.
Best regards,
Sorina

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• sanjibbehera (1347)
• [2009-09-13 11:54]

Hi Derek,

excellent reflections with a nice composition. good colors and good use of exposure here. sharp details with nice pov here.

tfs,
Sanjib.

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• john1 (1727)
• [2009-09-13 13:15]

Hello Derek,

Excellent reflection and color your landscape.
Great work, my friend.
Good composition and wonderfull shot.
Have a good sunday.
John

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• rewshearer (21081)
• [2009-09-13 14:44]

Beautiful colours and textures and sharpness in this - although (maybe it's my monitor?) I can see compression lines in the sky's gradient, quite clearly.

Composition is very good.

Rew

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• tyro (3929)
• [2009-09-13 14:55]

Hello, Derek.

This is a fabulous picture from one of my favourite haunts. I was actually out in my little old Austin Ten (that picture was taken at Talla) for a drive yesterday afternoon and had half a mind to take a trip to Talla - I might have bumped into you there - but I went elsewhere.

This picture excels any that I have taken from this spot. I have put some on TE as well as here. This looks as though it was taken from just within the gates which lead to the northwest end of the reservoir (I saw a couple of weeks ago that the boats have now gone) and it is very pleasing indeed. You had a beautiful clear and windless day for this shot. The reflections are lovely and the colours well, but not overly, saturated.

As an aside, sensor dust really can be a problem. I'm not sure if the Nikon D700 has the new fancy dust-clearing gizmos inside it but my Canon 20D doesn't. Dust is something which seems to become much more apparent at very small apertures as here (f/22). Occasionally, I take a shot in the house of a plain white wall at f/22 or f/32 to see all the blobs on the sensor. You have done a good job here cloning out any dust spots but there is, unfortunately, just at the very top right, a hint of a cloning circle: hardly visible but, when you mentioned dust spots, I just had to look closely!

Other than that, a perfect picture though, if I were to be really picky, the right side of the pumping station looks just a little overexposed.

You see, the better the pictures you present, the more critical people will be. Nonetheless, I should have been very proud to have produced a picture anywhere near this quality.

Excellent!

Kind Regards,

John.

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• jackal (2895)
• [2009-09-13 18:34]

Hi Derek,
a very pleasant image, the colours are rich and sharp and slight motion blur on the water is great
cheers
Jack

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• luckybry (6876)
• [2009-09-20 6:09]

hi Derek congarts on your 200th shot and it is a realy nice one from the famous talla water the pov you chose is excellent love the colours on the water tfs
regards bryan

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• vanda (1868)
• [2009-09-20 8:40]

Hi Derek,
Splendid landscape.
Amazing lighting and reflections on the water.
Superb POV and DFOF. Wonderful colours.
Congratulations.
Best regards.
Vanda

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• urs0114 (5070)
• [2009-09-22 14:42]

Bonjour Derek.
Splendide travail de prise de vue qui a abouti a cette superbe image.
Couleurs et contraste sont aussi parfaits.
Bonne soirée.
Us

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• S-moon (2373)
• [2009-09-28 6:00]

Hi Derek,

That's what I call blue! Amazing colours! Beautiful composition of this amazing landscape. Very nice soft lighting. I like the movement in the reflections. Well done!

TFS Greetings Simone