The Mirror Effect

Gallery: LandscapePosted January 9, 2011946 views50 comments

Well everyone, after 7 amazing days in one of the most beautiful places in Canada, I woke up to a cold and crystal clear morning.

And it was fitting to get this shot on my final day prior to heading to the next destination on my journey

This shot was taken on the edge of Lake Magog. After 2 snow storms while I was there, I was lucky that the mountains had a fresh layer of snow on them. Mid September was the perfect time to visit the park because the lake was still open

Comments welcome

I have added the larger image for your viewing.

Comments

50 comments

Comment posted by Anthony Vincent on January 9, 2011 at 12:43 AM

Gorgeous James
Seems like you caught some great moments on your trip
Care to share the technical info

Well done

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Comment posted by David Edwards on January 9, 2011 at 12:58 AM

A stunning image, James. The atmosphere is so crystal clear, and those magenta tones are just beautiful. The light hitting the peak is a wonderful focal point. I initially thought a slight crop off the sky would be nice, but I really like the transition up to the deeper sky tones, so I'd probably leave it. Beautiful work!

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Comment posted by Bruce King on January 9, 2011 at 1:02 AM

Man that's sweet James. Strong fg and the light is spectacular.

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Comment posted by James Fougère on January 9, 2011 at 1:18 AM

Anthony, I was fortunate to get some great images, and have some special moments while visiting the park. I plan to go back again to explore some more

Here are the tech specs you asked for;
10mm lens, single exposure, with NDGF, 1sec, f16, ISO100

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Comment posted by Mat Malone on January 9, 2011 at 2:18 AM

This one is really sweet, James. I love how the light is hitting Assiniboine but nothing else. The clear sky actually works pretty well here.

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Comment posted by Scott Lawson on January 9, 2011 at 2:22 AM

Beautiful, crisp scene. Love the light on the distant peak and the foreground rocks are also nice. I feel like there's more interest on the left side of the image than the right, but that's minor.

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on January 9, 2011 at 3:39 AM

Beautiful image!
The colors are very striking.
I personally would allow the entire large rock at the bottom; being cut off bugs me a bit.

Sandy

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Comment posted by James Fougère on January 9, 2011 at 3:56 AM

Hi Sandy, There is a small bit of cropping on the left & right to help balance the image. Unfortunately I have no room on the bottom of the image. I guess I could have captured less sky and more foreground. Thanks for the comments

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Comment posted by Pramod Viswanath on January 9, 2011 at 4:19 AM

Fabulous! Love the alpenglow. Fantastic image James!!

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Comment posted by Loulou Beavers on January 9, 2011 at 6:45 AM

very well done.

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Comment posted by Hamed Musharbak on January 9, 2011 at 7:40 AM

what a great reflection

very nice indeed

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Comment posted by Keith Bauer on January 9, 2011 at 9:33 AM

Beautiful image. The soft pastels in this really make the mood even more peaceful. Can't imagine how calm it must have been for you to be there and capture this. Big Congrats on a stunner

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Comment posted by Chris Chamberlain on January 9, 2011 at 10:22 AM

This is gorgeous! As elegasnt and beautiful as anything I've seen from there before. I understand this is about a 20 mile hike to get into? I don't know for sure if the gradient in the sky is a bit too strong. It does have a nice dramatic effect, so maybe not. Bringing up a little probably wouldn't either though. Nice!!!

Chris

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Comment posted by Bob Wyatt on January 9, 2011 at 10:32 AM

One word...stunning!

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Comment posted by John Mumaw on January 9, 2011 at 11:24 AM

Gorgeous scene, and your 'development' is perfect. Love the kiss of sunlight on the peak!
My only suggestion would be to clean up a bit of the white stuff on the foreground rock and to 'lose' the bright pebble just below the peak's reflection.
Minor, minor stuff, really. This is an absolute pleasure to savor, James!

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Comment posted by Doug Roane on January 9, 2011 at 11:25 AM

wonderful image, James. The rock at the bottom throws off the image somewhat, and draws too much attention IMO. Part of it is that it is cut off the bottom, but also, it seems to throw off the balance of the image, making it heavier compositionally on the left side. If it were more to the right and placed a bit higher in the frame, it would probably be fine. For this, I would crop above the rock for more of a pano, or to keep the 2:3, crop the bottom and right.

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Comment posted by Daniel & Loana on January 9, 2011 at 11:38 AM

Wonderful!

D&L

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Comment posted by Joseph Rossbach on January 9, 2011 at 12:51 PM

stunning image James! well done in every respect

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Comment posted by Stan Rose on January 9, 2011 at 12:59 PM

Beautiful shot, classic mountain photo! Extremely surprised that no one has yet mentioned the obvious problem with the grad--the classic case of too strong a grad, where the tops of the peaks are much brighter in the reflection than they are above (and the bottoms of the mountains are brighter than the top). But its relatively minor and should be an easy correction.

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Comment posted by Kyle L. Krause on January 9, 2011 at 1:55 PM

Beautiful capture and presentation James. The reflection,color and details are fabulous. Congrats!

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Comment posted by Aaron Feinberg on January 9, 2011 at 2:48 PM

Pretty epic conditions! Overall super but couple of comp nits...rock on btm needs a bit of breathing room...and possibly stepping to the right once and panning back to the left to offset the btm rock and peak to create a bit more tension as they are a bit overlapping right now. Well played sir :)

aF

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Comment posted by James Fougère on January 9, 2011 at 2:57 PM

Thanks everyone for the comments, they are all good!! I find this website very valuable!! I have only been at this for 2 years, and have loads to learn

But each time I go in the field, your comments help me pre-visualize the scene. I agree that this image is a bit heavy on the left, I also wish I had panned down just a bit to give the foreground more room, and cut out a tad of sky at the top

I will do a repost shortly ! Thanks again

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Comment posted by Wayne Willison on January 9, 2011 at 3:00 PM

An image to be proud of.

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Comment posted by Jude Haase on January 9, 2011 at 3:10 PM

Very nice James....Beautiful colors!!

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Comment posted by Michael R Reynolds on January 9, 2011 at 3:17 PM

James,
Just a gorgious image. No nits here. Best Regards.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on January 9, 2011 at 3:41 PM

Very, very nice. The warm light on the mountain is the perfect focal point for the cool light in this scene.

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Comment posted by Mark Metternich on January 9, 2011 at 3:45 PM

As a reflection nut, I love this!!! Awesome place and shot!

Having said that, on my monitor the graduated luminance of the blue sky may be just a little heavy for my preference.

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Comment posted by James Fougère on January 9, 2011 at 4:44 PM

Thanks again for the input, I have applied most of your comments to this image. Some, are just not possible ! I adjusted the darker section of the sky to make it a bit brighter, while keeping the nice transition from light to dark. I also corrected the reflection brightness of the mountains to be more accurate (Thanks Stan

). I also removed the bright pebble below the reflected peak, and the white sections of the large rock. I tried to crop the large rock out, but it caused the foreground to be quite "empty". I tried to covey the majestic and awe inspiring feeling I had standing at the base of this amazing cirque

I hope it does !

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Comment posted by Lorna Taylor on January 9, 2011 at 4:51 PM

Wonderful work, love the reflection in the lake and the calmness of the water. That little tip of red is just the icing on the cake , it takes the image from beautiful to amazing.Image 2 works better ,toning down that little foreground rock made such a difference.

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Comment posted by John Mumaw on January 9, 2011 at 5:54 PM

Those few corrections made a vast improvement, James!

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Comment posted by Kevin Trinkner on January 9, 2011 at 6:42 PM

Beautiful image James, looks like an incredible journey for sure! Your repost is perfect IMO, excellent work!

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on January 9, 2011 at 8:07 PM

Your rework improved an already beautiful shot, and now it's gorgeous! Great reflection and light on the peak!

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Comment posted by Rick Lundh on January 9, 2011 at 8:27 PM

Amazing colors and gorgeous scene!

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Comment posted by Yan Zhang on January 9, 2011 at 9:52 PM

Very impressive - nice composition and great reflection!

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Comment posted by Jimmy Gekas on January 10, 2011 at 2:16 AM

Fantastic scene and the reflection is killer. The repost is great.

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Comment posted by Kent Mearig on January 10, 2011 at 2:19 AM

I think the work on the re-post, though subtle, was highly effective. With regards to the rock at the bottom, I wonder how people's responses to it might change if it had been wet instead of dry. Very nicely done all the same.

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Comment posted by Abdullaziz Bin Ali on January 10, 2011 at 3:15 AM

I like it
Excellent James

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Comment posted by Randy Bacon on January 10, 2011 at 8:03 AM

James, what a wonderful shot, I have really enjoyed your posts from this trip. When you make the effort to take the trail less traveled, you expose yourself to nature's grandeur in a way that most of us can only dream about - and then having the skill and patience to capture it in these incredible images - magic!

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Comment posted by Bill Chambers on January 10, 2011 at 8:59 AM

Beautiful image James. The light on the peak is just beautiful, and the scene is so clear and crisp. Wonderful capture.

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Comment posted by James Fougère on January 10, 2011 at 10:03 AM

Thanks again everyone for the comments

Kent, just to clarify, all the rocks are under water along the shoreline, I wish the color was different on that big rock!

Randy, thank you for taking a look at all of my photo's from Mt Assiniboine. When I was on my 6 week "BIG" trip, Marc Adamus asked if I was going to Assiniboine, and said "it would be a travesty" if I did not, since I was going to be in the area!! So I have to thank him for pushing me in the right direction

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Comment posted by Stan Rose on January 10, 2011 at 11:47 AM

With the repost, now i can shorten my critique

One word:
Outstanding!

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on January 10, 2011 at 12:57 PM

Beautiful! A wonderful scene. Love the colors. Repost is great.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Justin Reznick on January 10, 2011 at 1:03 PM

Gorgeous touch of light on the peak James, fantastic image!

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Comment posted by Michael J Greene, on January 10, 2011 at 1:13 PM

Gorgeous image James. Congrats!

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Comment posted by Ian Haskell on January 10, 2011 at 5:22 PM

Very Nice!

Ian

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Comment posted by Alexandre Deschaum on January 10, 2011 at 5:31 PM

PURE .

nice work

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Comment posted by James Fougère on January 10, 2011 at 7:37 PM

Thanks again everyone, all your input has been very helpful

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Comment posted by Zack Clothier on January 11, 2011 at 12:22 AM

Wonderful reflection and subtle mountain light here. You nailed it with the repost.

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Comment posted by Zack Schnepf on January 11, 2011 at 12:52 PM

Killer image James. I like the changes you made as well.

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Comment posted by dean hebert on January 11, 2011 at 1:18 PM

Beautiful! Great scene, the repost addresses any issues I might of had.

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