There’s something about how the shape of the ice seems to radiate out — even though the water is moving right to left — that makes this just interesting enough to share with you all.
Technical: Canon 5D Mark II, 70-200mm f/2.8L at 150mm, 3-stop ND filter + polarizer, 1/5 second, f/16, ISO 100.
Lightroom 3: Recovery 20, Fill 25, Blacks 20, Clarity +30, Vibrance +43 (brings out the blue in the ice).
Finally had a chance to strap on some snowshoes and head out to the river… I’m not sure that the term “hieroglyphics” is really appropriate but the ducks tracks reminded me of those sci-fi glowing letters you see in movies and shows like Stargate SG-1.
Technical: Canon 5D Mark 2, 70-200mm f/2.8L, 0.4sec, f/16, ISO 100, 3-stop ND filter + polarizer. Might as well cop to an error as well — I had accidentally left the image stabilizer on which definitely impacted the sharpness of the longer exposures.
Lightroom 3: minor exposure tweaks, blacks around 15, clarity 20, and converted to black&white (it was pretty monochromatic to start with)
And a couple more variations…
First in a series of abstracts I shot about a year ago. I’m looking forward to heading out over the weekend to do some more.
Technical: Canon 5D Mark 2, 70-200mm f/2.8L at 115mm. 0.6sec, f/9, ISO 100.
Lightroom 3: Exposure 0.5, blacks 10, clarity +35, vibrance +17 (wow, unusually close to straight out of the camera)
