At Disneyworld (in Epcot's Japan) at the Hibachi restaurant, I snuck this photo of a young couple as they sat down at the hibachi grill across from us and began to go through the menu. When i took the picture, I was unaware how well the highly polished Hibachi grill was going to pick up their reflection, but when I saw how well it had come out, I immediately fell in love with the shot.
Part of the reason the shot is composed the way it is because light level was very low, so I needed to set my camera down to get it stabilized. Had light level been better, I probably would have had the camera at eye level and missed out on the cool reflection all together.
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Pixie Dust 91 months ago | reply
This shot is practically perfect.
Did you crop it at all? I wonder how it would look if the girl on the far right didn't have her face cut off.
You must have a "real" camera. My cheap digital would bever get such true color in low light. It is beautiful! The grill makes the shot -- what a lucky circumstance. Thanks for sharing :-)
Pixie Dust 91 months ago | reply
It won't let me edit my previous comment. Sorry for the typo.
I also wanted to say that part of what makes this a great shot besides the colors, the reflection, and the human interest, is the way the mass of people with their reflections makes a kind of "egg" shape in the composition. It all serves to encircle the main couple.
Glenn Loos-Austin 91 months ago | reply
It is cropped in somewhat, and I agree, the girl on the far right should probably be all-in or all-out. As for the camera, I use the Canon Digital Rebel 300D, which I'm totally enamoured of.
A large part of that is that I really don't care for flash photography, and the larger prosumer cameras have better light sensitivity. This shot, for instance, was taken at 1600 ISO, F2.8, with a 1/50 second shutter speed.
As for color, it's all about the manual white balance feature.
Thanks for your nice comments!
j_photo [deleted] 82 months ago | reply
the reflection is just brilliant! Really well done! To faves.
[ I apreciate that you put here all details how you took that photo, thats really helpful ]