Ice tectonics - repost

Gallery: Man & NaturePosted January 25, 2011138 views7 comments

The pools at Cheyenne Bottoms WA are frozen solid. On Saturday afternoon, the ice was full of long cracks, but not many ridges. By Monday evening, this ridge had formed along one of the cracks and the warm temps had created a lot of standing water. I'm not one to wish for cold weather, but I'm having fun with the ice this year. Our warm day time temps may make it unsafe to get out on the ice by the weekend. 7D, ISO 200, f/11, 1/50, 6 stacked images to get extended focus, minimal crop, ~10 minutes before sunset

When stacking, is it better to use a wider f-stop like f/5.6 or something narrower like f/8 or f/11? I'm getting mixed results so far. CS5 couldn't handle the sky/far shoreline in this image, and I had to mask back in from one of the original images. Not sure why, but it happened on each series I tried from this scene.

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Lorna Taylor on January 25, 2011 at 10:11 PM

Wonderful find, Great shot!
My comment is if you cropped the top a little just to the top of the water line.I think that little sliver of sky competes with your lovely colours and composition. But that is just my opinion! Cheers

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on January 26, 2011 at 12:03 AM

like the way the ice ridge leads the eye to the rushes Nice composition

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Comment posted by Ken Bachman on January 26, 2011 at 6:37 PM

I like this one best of all your ice pics so far Rob, and I've enjoyed them all. I like the colors and the great lines from the ice fisure.

It looks like our ice days are over for now with 50-60 degree days coming up.

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Comment posted by Ian Haskell on January 27, 2011 at 6:31 PM

Very nice although I would just crop the sky off.

Ian

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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on January 27, 2011 at 10:42 PM

A very interesting scene Rob. The cool blues are very appealing and the composition is strongly graphic.

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Comment posted by Rob Graham on January 27, 2011 at 11:13 PM

Thanks for the comments, everybody. Here is a version with the sky cropped out, as suggested. Ken, I checked the ice tonight, and wasn't inclined to venture out on it. It'll be even worse on Friday.

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Comment posted by Eva McDermott on January 28, 2011 at 12:33 PM

Repost looks wonderful Rob. I like the perspective and lead in the ice provides.

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