Fragile Garden
by Harry Lichtman
One glass storm door on our outdoor porch seems to grow the most amazing frost formations while none of the other nearby windows do. Maybe the glass material? An unusually cold night grew these feathered forms. The bright blue sky outside of the window gives the image its blue cast, which I have de-saturated slightly. Slight changes in the lens angle to the window made many of the forms difficult to distinguish, so I positioned the lens to optimize the ability to see all of the frost. Unfortunately, the resulting lens position was not parallel to the window, so DOF was an issue. I took 13 images at f16, ISO 100 to cover the view, then blended the different focal slices to help improve the DOF. In addition I cropped the edge slightly to eliminate unacceptably unsharp areas.
Comments
12 commentsGary - it's only on a porch, so no need to replace especially when I can see a fringe benefit
David - The dark blues are due to the varying thickness of the ice. You can't see anything beyond the window due to the shallow DOF.
Chris - The processing was really pretty simple. The RAW conversion of 1 image was very quick, not much to change from the default setttings in ACR. Had a bit of waiting while PS auto-aligned all 13 images and then auto-blend. That is what American Idol is for
Fabulous abstract.
No matter how shallow the DOF, the elements outside the window will be affecting the light coming through. To me, knowing this is a door, I see a light band on the top third, then darker in the middle, and light at the bottom. It makes me assume it's sky, then trees/plants/buildings, and then the ground at the bottom.
If it's not, no big deal - just what my mind filled in the blanks on, which is interesting!
Albert Darmo
Canada