When I’m in Charleston, I frequent the Ashely River, pictured here, for 2 reasons:
1) I love to take pictures near water.
2) It’s close to my apartment, so I can stop there on the way to work!
I’ve seen and photographed this flowing water many times. I’m not sure what the building is, located about 200 yards to the right, but there is always water coming out of this pipe. It makes for some nice time exposure images. On this particular morning, last Wednesday, November 26th, there was a bit of mist rising off of the river. It was about 30 degrees outside, my fingers were nearly frozen to my nice, cold, aluminum tripod, and my finger could barely feel the shutter button, but I was having fun!
I took a few pictures of the leaves that were remaining on the trees and of this flow. As I sat here at my computer looking at those pictures, I wished that I had had a particular composition. I wished that the branches were jutting out over the water above this pipe. I thought that it would be a nice, pleasing composition, but no luck. They weren’t!
Lo and behold, as they say, I see two pictures that, if combined carefully, would give me what I want. So, that’s what I did. I usually don’t do composites and it is very rare that I do multiple exposures, but when the mood hits, you just gotta go with it!
I know that a lot of you are curious, as I am, so here are the two original photos.
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Great job and the colors are just gorgeous. The deep, rich reds combined with the icy blues, add the flowing water and mist. Wow! This was an excellent reason to do a composite. I am delighted that you continued to shoot in spite of those numb fingers.
Well done. it really turned out nicely. I have not attempted anything like that myself…I wouldn’t even know where to start!
Never would have suspected that the photo was not the real thing – it is a nice capture.
How lucky that in photography you can “catch the fish” also after the adventure!
I Paul, nice composite.
I’m just curious, the tree on the left picture, is that the same tree we see the lower branch of on the right picture, just from a slightly different angle?
If so, you have actually made a composite that could almost be seen in real life.
Kjell
I meant “Hi Paul” of course
@Kjell: Yes, it is the same tree. I just needed the branches to be in a different position. It was almost real life.
For the composite, I took a zoomed in shot of the tree as well as of the pipe. Then, I made the pipe picture about 25% smaller, joined the layers, did a bit of masking and some cloning of the water to make it look ‘correct’. That was about it. You are very observant!