Highly reflective subject

Because I was house bound last week I went on a hunt around the house for highly reflective subjects. These were all found in the kitchen as we have a lot of stainless steel objects in there.


I liked the idea of taking a picture of myself in the bin, one of my cats also walked past whilst I was taking this picture.
I tried the image in colour and black and white, the black and white look the best with the stainless steel.





Another object I found which was reflective was the iron. I saw my dad in the iron so told him to stay still and took a picture. Again, the picture looked best in black and white rather than colour.





It took me a while to realise that the microwave showed reflections. The microwave shows more reflection in a picture than it does just looking at the object.





Both of these images are of the tap. I tried out two different presets for the images and couldn't work out which one i preferred.
For this image I used the 'high contrast black and white' preset from Lightroom 2.





For this image I used the 'antique' preset giving the image a sepia effect.







These two images below were taken when I went down to St.Ives over the weekend. We walked past an empty shop which showed the beach in the reflection.
I have given both images the 'high contrast black and white' preset because the image looked very blue from the shop being blue. I didn't like the images when they were in colour, but now they are in black and white I really like them.