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A meditative shot of stones reflecting clouds in the still waters of MacIntosh Dam. Taken near Tullah in Tasmania, Australia.
A meditative shot of stones reflecting clouds in the still waters of MacIntosh Dam. Taken near Tullah in Tasmania, Australia.
Jala (Water)
Jala (Water)
Jala (Water)
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A meditative shot of stones reflecting clouds in the still waters of MacIntosh Dam. Taken near Tullah in Tasmania, Australia.

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How this shot came about.

Data from all sources pointed to another 24 hours of rain in the hills around Tullah. Despite the dire predictions I try to take the view that a moment will present itself where the conditions of light, atmosphere and terrain are such that a good photograph is possible.

I had already been rewarded with the reflection off the bridge in Vayu (Air) and had continued on my meander through the hills around Tullah when I decided to take the service road down to Mackintosh Dam to see what was at the end of that track.

I crossed over the dam and spotted a pebbly beach at the dam's edge to the East of the track. A steep descent brought the vehicle as far as it would go and from there a short portal of camera gear had me setup at the water's edge.

I took several different versions of the scene with and without ND filters but this image was the one which presented a multi-faceted appeal. It's quite a technical shot on several different levels. The complimentary colors of the peaty water and the sky, the fading stones under the water mimicking the shape of the hillside, the stones reflecting the clouds and the axes of the stones and the clouds meeting at the horizon out-of-shot to the right.

This shot is the fourth of a five shot series from my trip entitled "The Elements" and represents the fourth element, Water. I like this image for all these reasons individually but of course the image has a strong visual appeal from their gestalt as well.

Shot Location

The Shot

Data from all sources pointed to another 24 hours of rain in the hills around Tullah. 

I had decided to take a punt that the weather would clear and was set up to take advantage of any moments of good light, atmosphere and terrain. I had used the Photographer's Ephemeris to scout the local area and traveled down the track to Mackintosh Dam to get this shot. Once I was in the vicinity of the dam there was a process of location scouting to identify positions from which to take images. 

I tried 4 different locations and probably took around 20 panoramas but settled on this image in the end. 

The Photographer's Ephemeris showing the shot location

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Gear

Camera: Canon EOS R5

Lens: Canon RF 15-35mm f2.8L IS USM

Storage: ProGrade Cobalt CF Express B 325Gb

Ballhead: Really Right Stuff BH-40

Tripod: Really Right Stuff TFC-34L Mk2

Cable Release: Canon BR-E1 Bluetooth Remote

ND Filter: None

Exposures

Count: 7

HDR Count: 7 exposures per shot

Aperture: f10

ISO: 100

Focal Length: 15 mm

EV values: -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3

Shutter: 1/500, 1/250, 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125

Filters

ND Filter: Not used

Gradient Filter: false

Polarizer: false

Image

Rows: 1

Shots: 0

HDR Shots: 1

Aspect: Portrait

Arrangement: 1x1

Post Production

Basic Workflow

  • I used Lightroom to stitch the 7 HDR exposures together into a single image.
  • I used Lightroom to bring the water horizon to perfectly horizontal.
  • I used Photoshop's spot healing tool to patiently remove 1,720 leaves from the surface of the water
  • I passed the image through Topaz DeNoiseAI removing CCD noise from the sky, clouds and water 

Image Adjustment

  • There was a contrast and clarity adjustment to the hillside in the background
  • I used a luminosity mask to adjust the luminosity of the clouds' highlights to the left of the hillside
  • The hillsides were sharpened with Topaz SharpenAI
  • I applied a very light DeHaze to the surface of the water in the foreground to enhance its crystal-like nature.
  • The stones in the foreground both above and below the water were very lightly sharpened with Topaz SharpenAI
  • The image was cropped in to tighten the composition

A graphic of the shot's layout structure

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