Perito Moreno Light Play

Gallery: LandscapePosted April 16, 2012122 views3 comments

I took this shot from the viewing decks. The sky was partly cloudy and there were some amazing cloud formations that day. At the time of this capture,the clouds were arranged in parallel, horizontal linear formations creating bands of shadows and light on the surface of the Perito Moreno glacier. I liked the way the low hanging clouds right above the glacier's surface were mimicking the horizontal lines of shadow and light on the ice surface. I wasn't really going for an extreme abstract here, but rather, I wanted to create a sort of semi harmonious connection between the repeating surface patterns on the glacier and the ones in the sky/clouds.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Lens: EF24-70mm f/2.8L, at f/11, 1/320, ISO 100

As always, I welcome your feedback/comments. Thanks!

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3 comments

Comment posted by Michael J Greene, on April 17, 2012 at 11:53 AM

Hi Leo,

Maybe you have some other shots with the amazing cloud formations because I don't see any in this shot. The foreground is awesome, but the sky looks like a lot of negative space. Hopefully you'll post more from this location....

Michael

Registered on June 18, 2009, 86 Posts, 2317 Comments

Comment posted by Lon Overacker on April 17, 2012 at 4:59 PM

Leo,

I do see your attraction to the play of the horizontal lines between the clouds and their shadows and I think that works well. Kind of along Michael's comment, I'm not sure the clouds are all the compelling; at least to the point where the focus of the image has been taken away from the glacier - which I think is the subject. For me, I'm looking for just a bit more view of the bottom of the glacier. Perhaps though you chose to exclude the water, which I can understand; you either include it, or not and so there just may not be any more glacier than what you've shown. In my view though, I think the composition might be stronger with about 1/2 of the darker upper cloud cropped out. Minor though.

Certainly is a most impressive display of nature. thanks for sharing.

Lon

Registered on November 24, 2006, 521 Posts, 19147 Comments

Comment posted by Leo Collazo on April 19, 2012 at 10:35 PM

Thank you guys for your feedback. I agree that the clouds in this shot are not very spectacular. When I mentioned the amazing clouds, I was speaking generally about the cloud formations in the area that day, but not necessarily in this shot. What I was going for here was to show a continuance of the horizontal shapes on the surface of the glacier to the more subtle horizontal shapes of the clouds above. I don't think I would have gotten that effect if the clouds above the glacier would have been so amazing that they would have stolen the show.

Still, I can see that the way I wrote the description might sound like I was talking about amazing cloud formations in this particular image. I should probably mention amazing cloud formations when the image I show contains them. So, with that said, I will be posting some shots of those amazing cloud formations on that day very soon! Once again, thank you both, Michael and Lon for your feedback, and please keep them coming!

Registered on August 4, 2011, 19 Posts, 69 Comments