I just could not get my camera low enough here. When you try to get a nice reflection from a puddle, you have to get as low as possible. Same here. To get the whole lighthouse in the puddle I had to be only centimeters from the ground. My tripod can get quite low, just the middle part is in the way. So in the end I took this shot with the camera upside down. It was quite fun to try and find the controls in that situation. I noticed how many thinks I do automatically, because when I though where the buttons were, I could not remember :)

This is a manual blend from 6 shots, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop. For those curious, I use Lightroom only to organize my photos and do small edits on the raw files. This are usually just the removal of chromatic aberrations (really easy to do in Lightroom, hard to do in Photoshop), white balance and lens correction. I also sometime recover the highlights in the brightest shot and brighten the darks in the darkest shots. I do this if I see that I will need it later in blending, and you get better results when you do this on RAW files than on already exported files.

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• Technique: Manual blending
• Number of exposures: 6
• Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
• Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8
• Focal length: 25mm
• Aperture: 14
• Middle exposure time: 1s
• ISO: 100
• Tripod used: yes

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Where was this photo taken:

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