[Yogesh Sarkar]

In the past few days, I have seen few fantastic captures of reflection in Pangong Tso and Tso Moriri by Fang and Rupinder, when I tried to do it when I was there, all I got was ripples in the water and no reflection .

How do you manage to capture these fantastic reflections in water?

Do you use a special setting or shoot at a specific time?

[tsk1979]

IF water is rippling, no matter what you do the reflection will be a blur. So you have to wait till wind goes down

[Yogesh Sarkar]

With Pangong Tso and Tso Moriri, I think possibility of that happening is a quite less

[tsk1979]

Click at early morning, or take a long exposure at night(100s+)

[hiambuj]

Those clicked at pangong Tso must be of the small water bodies adjoining the lake, which are actually of still water.. because at the main Pangong ake, the ripples are quite heavy, like waves of sea...

Like these :

[Salil]

Only 1 solution. Wait for the wind to die down.

[Yogesh Sarkar]

Hmm... wouldn't bumping the shutter speed to 1/1000 or faster help?

[tsk1979]

Nope, shutter speed won't help
Imagine its not a lake its a mirror.
Now take the mirror and add ripples to it. What do you see in the reflection?
Same thing camera will see.

[jamal]

hi friends,
as said above the best way is to let the wind die down completely. the highest probability for that to happen is early in the morning (sometimes evenings too but not as commonly). another way is to shoot from afar. or use a wide angle. the idea is to make the wavelets "relatively" smaller ( that is in reference to the frame size).
but nothing beats an early morning reflection.
i hope i could make myself clear.
regards
jamal
PS- just saw that tanveer has already explained that really nicely.

[Yogesh Sarkar]

Tanveer I was actually talking about the time when reflection is viewable, but is distorted by the ripples:



Thanks Jamal, would surely try to implement your suggestions.