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The Landscape Photography Book
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The Landscape Photography Book

by Scott Kelby
March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 46m
English
Rocky Nook
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Small Ponds or Puddles for Reflections

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You don’t need a big, epic lake to get great reflections—you only need a small pond or even a tiny puddle of water. The trick is to get your camera just a few inches above the puddle, so the reflection in the puddle becomes your entire foreground. This works better than you’d imagine, and you can get that mirror reflection right on the money. Before we dig into how to do this, I recommend doing a quick test with your phone’s camera to see how well this is actually going to work. Just set your phone’s camera to self-timer mode, press the shutter button, then put it down where it’s just a few inches above the ...

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ISBN: 9781681984346