Riverside reflections: The water surface duplicates the building once

Night view of a city riverside, where the architectural lighting on the opposite bank forms a complete reflection on the calm water surface. The reflection is slightly dimmer than the actual buildings and is stretched into fine vertical light streaks due to the slight ripples on the water. The actual buildings and their reflections are separated by a dark band of the riverbank, forming two worlds that are vertically symmetrical but completely different in texture. The ripples on the water cause each light to continuously break and reassemble as it extends, with larger ripples closer to the viewer, making the reflection more fragmented. The sky is deep blue, and the water surface is inky black in unlit areas. Avoid: depicting the water surface as a perfectly still mirror, making the reflection brighter than the actual buildings, eliminating the breaks caused by ripples, adding additional lights on the water surface.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

城市河岸的夜景,對岸的建築照明在平靜的水面上形成完整的倒影,亮度略低於實體,並因為水面的微小波動而被拉成垂直方向的細碎光柱。實體與倒影之間以河岸的暗帶分隔,構成上下對稱但質地完全不同的兩個世界。水面的波紋讓每一道光在延伸過程中不斷斷裂與重組,越靠近觀看者的水面波紋越大,倒影越破碎。天空是深藍,水面在無光處呈墨黑。避免:把水面畫成完全靜止的鏡面、讓倒影比實體亮、消除波紋造成的斷裂、加入額外的水面燈具。