366 Days of 2012, Day 70 - Reflections

Sometime we have no real feel for just how quickly our visual landscape moves; an issue that is quickly corrected when taking photographs.

Reflections on moving water are the translation of tiny movements into hugely magnified ones. 5mm of ripple can move a tall city building 50m sideways in an instant and this in turn means very fast movements for photography.

My first attempts at freezing this reflection of a city building on the Torrens River were disappointing. I soon realised just how fast the image needed to be taken. A wide aperture, high ISO and a 1/2000 second exposure is what this one took.


Photo: Robert Rath, '366 Days of 2012, Day 70 - Reflections'. 1/2000 sec at 200mm f/2.8, ISO 1000