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for getting more of the water, perhaps you could have taken two portrait shots and stitched them?
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A good idea, but I don't stitch.
I tried a vertical but lost too much of what I liked about the scene.
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I usually don't like infrared but this is effective.
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I belong to an IR forum and I actually don't like a lot of it, either.
Most of them are playing with false-color these days, or going for extreme exposures and it doesn't do much for me.
I prefer to use IR to get black and white with a slight difference--nothing too strange except for dark skies.
The way IR records (on my camera at least) it's nearly impossible to blow anything out or block the shadows---everything is in a middle range--so I have to expand the dynamic range quite a bit during processing.
But that's a good thing.
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I quite like this infrared stuff you are doing. I have always rather liked infrared - it seems to closely touch on the surreal look that I enjoy. Look into this photo - and you are seeing "the other side" of something - maybe the river - maybe the other side of some dimensional or spiritual plane...