I think the very high shutter speed is required to "freeze the moment". If you look at the second to last shot on the first page of Mike Curry's web site it is of the mast of a boat. If it were at a slower shutter speed I fancy that the reflected mast would not have a sharp edge.

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Heather,

Thanks very much for the feedback but you seem to have missed the point of the shot. It was taken as an abstract shot. You are not supposed to be able to make out the RSC. It was an experiment using a new (to me) technique.

I have lots of conventional reflection shoots on my HDDs see below for an example

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Certainly not a one time outing. I was out for four hours this morning and took some 300 reflections shots none of which are worth doing anything with. Happily I did get a reasonable shot of two swans flying together so it was not a complete waste of time.

I always take a notebook with me and have done so since I first took up photography a long time back in the film era. I still have all my notebooks and sometimes I pull one out to e.g. remind me what I was doing in 1972. It's good fun.

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Nice set of shots. The hammered steel looks really good.

Interesting idea. I will give it a go next time the weather conditions are appropriate.

I fully agree. That is why I will be going out early tomorrow when the wind speed should be lower.

I would try it with a sisal rope, it would add a bit more texture to the shot.

At my photo club we had a talk from a guy named Mike Curry (a renowned UK photographer) about his "Reflection" photographs - https://www.mikecurryphotography.com/portfolio/reflection/ . He basically takes shots of buildings reflected in rivers or canals. Shooting at 1/8000 sec and F8 and whatever ISO is required. In a few weeks time the club members are invited to show their own efforts to replicate his technique.

Today was fairly sunny so I went into town to take some shots. The attached shot shows the Royal Shakespeare Theatre reflected in the River Avon. Unfortunately it was not really sunny enough so I had to shoot at ISO 6400 so the picture is very noisy. It was also rather windy which disturbed the water too much. Early tomorrow morning it should be sunny with a lot less wind so I will be out at about 6 am to try again.

Anybody have similar photos to share?

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I would suggest that neither of these programs are simple or basic.

Have a play with Picasa which can be downloaded free here:-

http://picasa.findmysoft.com/

I enjoyed doing it. Good fun.

I did state that it was inspired by you

I used the first photo (after cropping) of some glass spheres by Dale Chihuly in the Japanese section of Kew Gardens (London). Placed it on a larger green background and copied/pasted the cropped picture four times and rotated each one adjusting the opacity each time. The square edges of each layer were then erased.

This week at the Photo Club I belong to we are having a talk about abstract photography by an outside speaker and the following week we have a Photo challenge to show some abstract photos. This will probably be one of my entries but I might change the background to a lighter shade of green.

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I think that looks a lot better.

Nice concept and well executed. Congratulations.

Interesting concept. I think I will try it with a source other than flowers.

I think that if I used flowers I would use pastel colours as I think that would look better.