Need some opinions on this one...

[schrackman]

This image is actually a composite. I just flipped the top image to make it appear as if there is a reflection in water. I am planning to have this printed as an 8x10 tonight but my question is, should I make the two suns line up perfectly vertical or should I leave them as is below? My gut feeling is to leave as is, but I welcome your thoughts.

[photophorous]

This is a really cool image. I think you should leave the alignment the way it is. It looks very nice.

Must not have been any wind.

Paul

[Ridgetop]

Depends on what look you want. Looks great the way it is, but it is not a "reflection", i.e. reversed mirror image like you would see in a real body of water. Very pretty photo though. Can you make it a mirror reflection? I'm just starting to learn photoshop so I'm not sure at this point.

[Seb]

This image is actually a composite. I just flipped the top image to make it appear as if there is a reflection in water. I am planning to have this printed as an 8x10 tonight but my question is, should I make the two suns line up perfectly vertical or should I leave them as is below? My gut feeling is to leave as is, but I welcome your thoughts.

Beautiful work. I would leave it like it is.

Seb

[schrackman]

Thanks Paul, ridgetop and Seb!

Paul, actually, there was wind and many of the mills were moving. Problem was, I was shooting directly into the sun which gave me a very fast shutter speed. Couldn't have captured them rotating without sacrificing the silhouette effect, the latter of which is what I was really after..

Ridgetop, I tried playing with it in Photoshop and giving it a water-like reflection but it really took away from the image, so I left it as is.

I think I will leave it as is. I did try at first to make the suns align vertically, but this seems to give the iimage a bit more perspective.

Thanks for your input. I'm off to the photo lab!!

[Ronnoco]

The major problem is that the part that represents a good photo, makes up a very small part of the frame and you have a mass of negative space with no detail that cuts across the centre of the photo. Making a composite to solve the problem really does not help very much.
A long telephoto or a graduated neutral density filter to bring up detail in the foreground would have been a far better solution.

Ronnoco

[LeeIs]

Gorgeous image schrackman. I love everything about it. The symmetry, the position of the sun, the skies and the reflection.

[cr_mmurillo]

I think the sun is a little too centered. Other than that, it's a good shot. May I ask, what was bellow the mountain? Was it just all shadow?

[Loupey]

I realize this is coming late, but FWIW...

At first I was distracted because yes the bottom image is not a mirror. But then I realized that perhaps, along with the unaligned suns, that you intended it to look that way to emphasis that it is not a reflection. I see that had you mirrored it, there would have been too much sky on the right hand side.

Not that it would have been better, but I would have liked to see the split images even more "spread". Slide the top half one way and the bottom half the other.

Looks like a very cool place to shoot.

[KyRain]

I like this the way it is because it is so interesting and unexpected. The other way seems too predictable. This is too groovy.

[thisisbenji]

i think its beautiful.