Lafayette Reservoir

Gallery: LandscapePosted January 24, 2015441 views14 comments

Lafayette Reservoir last fall. We are very lucky to have a 925-acre park with a large reservoir adjacent to our Lafayette home.

Taken with an i-phone 6+.
I Don't hike with the D800 or 500mm lens any longer!

2014:11:27 08:11:13
4.2mm
Digital zoom: 4.2x
1/4950 sec, f/2.2
Mode: Program
Metering: Multi-segment
ISO: 32
Flash: Off

Comments

14 comments

Comment posted by Igor Doncov on January 24, 2015 at 11:02 PM

I really like the ridge after ridge composition, each succeeding ridge fainter than the one in front. The composition is nice as is the mood. The monochromatic sense of this really appeals to me. I don't see any crop that would improve what you've chosen. It has an Eden like - Valhalla like feel to it.

There is a fair amount of noise in the larger version. What I've learned from my iphone 5 is that any zoom greatly diminishes the quality of the image. It's better to take it as is and crop it in photoshop. Oh and one other thing, using the crop tool provided by iphone greatly damages the quality as well.

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Comment posted by Patricia Brundage on January 25, 2015 at 7:38 AM

This is stunning! Can you enlarge to any extent when taken on a phone or I-pad? Sure would make a wonderful print.

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Comment posted by scott lanz on January 25, 2015 at 8:35 AM

Beautiful, Sandy. Looks more like a painting than a photograph, but I like the monotone color and watercolor look.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on January 25, 2015 at 10:17 AM

Great collection of layers set off well by the lighting. Looks like a fine use of that camera phone.

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on January 25, 2015 at 10:47 AM

Very dramatic. I like the layers and lines you captured

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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on January 25, 2015 at 2:52 PM

Beautiful scene and great mood with the fog!

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Comment posted by gary phillips on January 25, 2015 at 6:00 PM

Superb iphone image, Sandy. The fog and shafts of light are very nice.

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Comment posted by Richard Teller on January 25, 2015 at 9:47 PM

Very nice composition. This really works well in b&w.

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Comment posted by Eva McDermott on January 26, 2015 at 12:18 AM

I love the layers here Sandy. I might be tempted to bring up he highlights a little to make it really pop.

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Comment posted by Stuart Williams on January 26, 2015 at 2:06 AM

nice atmospherics - candidate for a b&w conversion ...??

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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on January 26, 2015 at 3:39 AM

This is great. I like the how the diagonals from each direction cross.

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Comment posted by Carey Closs on January 26, 2015 at 5:26 PM

The soft lighting and layers combined with the slight bit of noise and subtle tinting could easily make one believe that this was a turn of the century pictorialist photograph. Very nice Sandy.

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Comment posted by Mark Metternich on January 26, 2015 at 6:17 PM

Excellent capture of light!

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Comment posted by D.A. Edwards on January 27, 2015 at 3:12 PM

Very nice, Sandy, particularly considering the equipment. I suppose we'll all be reduced to taking images with our phones some day

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