Wat Phan Tao - #ChiangMai - #Thailand

            One of the most amazing places I could, by chance, visit.
It was my second day in Chiang Mai, north of Thailand, and I decided to take the bike to explore the temples of the city at night. The idea was to find temples with interesting illuminations, but as it was late, and had already passed the blue hour, I imagined that I would not find anything else. Suddenly I entered the back of a temple and found this garden lit by lanterns hanging from the tree, and a small pond around. The whole place had an incredible atmosphere and the absence of people in the place contributed even more to the transcendental feeling I felt there. When I saw all that light from the lanterns reflecting in the water, I did not think twice and ran to set up the equipment.
I looked for several positions and angles in order to find the best balance between water and the tree trying to look for an aspect of continuity or mixing between real and reflected but still making the difference clear. The idea here was not to leave the observer confused as to what is what. In fact, I thought of reproducing the image so that people when they saw it could feel more of the atmosphere of the place, than trying to figure out what that is.

To make this photo, I basically used 2 exposures: a base exposure, which I used to work correctly the darkest and medium parts and a -2 stop, to recover the details of the lanterns. The digital blending technique here was done using Luminosity Masks, where the details of the lights inside the lanterns of exposure -2 were retrieved.
Other adjustments have been made, to accentuate contrasts, shadows, color lights and sharpness.

Nikon D810 w / Nikkor 14-24mm f / 2.8
@ 14mm, f / 8, 10sec, ISO 64

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Taken in: Thailand / Chiang Mai / Chiang Mai (show map)

Taken on: November 21, 2016

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