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The Art of Photography => Landscape Showcase => Topic started by: guido on February 24, 2018, 05:30:20 pm

Title: Ice out at Bears Den
Post by: guido on February 24, 2018, 05:30:20 pm: Two weeks ago this falls was locked up with ice. Today not so much and I even got nice light.

(https://i.imgur.com/2I8id0s.jpg)

Canon 5DSR TS-E 25 f3.5L II

Comments welcome. Thanks for looking!
Title: Re: Ice out at Bears Den
Post by: Rob C on February 24, 2018, 05:35:13 pm: I was expecting Glasgow; that's where Bearsden is.

:-)
Title: Re: Ice out at Bears Den
Post by: Cornfield on February 25, 2018, 12:25:02 pm: Quote from: Rob C on February 24, 2018, 05:35:13 pm
I was expecting Glasgow; that's where Bearsden is.

:-)

😃 Rob, are you from this side (east) of the pond?
Title: Re: Ice out at Bears Den
Post by: Peter McLennan on February 25, 2018, 02:02:48 pm: Quote from: guido on February 24, 2018, 05:30:20 pm
I even got nice light.

Indeed you did. Mother Nature rewards your perseverance.
Well worth the trip back. For you and us. :)
Title: Re: Ice out at Bears Den
Post by: guido on February 25, 2018, 09:30:17 pm: Thanks for your kind words and interest!
Title: Re: Ice out at Bears Den
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on February 26, 2018, 05:36:52 am: Very good photo, "takes me there".
Title: Re: Ice out at Bears Den
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 26, 2018, 02:10:44 pm: Quote from: guido on February 24, 2018, 05:30:20 pm
Two weeks ago this falls was locked up with ice. Today not so much and I even got nice light.

Comments welcome. Thanks for looking!

I often like long-exposure shots of water, but here I think you might have overdone it, and that a shorter exposure, retaining a bit more texture in the water, would look better.

Jeremy
Title: Re: Ice out at Bears Den
Post by: Rob C on February 26, 2018, 02:37:39 pm: Quote from: Cornfield on February 25, 2018, 12:25:02 pm
😃 Rob, are you from this side (east) of the pond?

Originally, but I've now lived longer in Spain than I have anywhere else.

The climate and food are probably better, but the buildings in my area are all designed as if we lived in a land of perpetual summer, which we most decidedly do not! It was -1C in Sa Pobla a day or two ago... Being on an island, the cold is coupled with sea dampness that never goes away.

Come spring and nobody remembers!

:-)
Title: Re: Ice out at Bears Den
Post by: Peter McLennan on February 26, 2018, 05:43:18 pm: Quote from: Rob C on February 26, 2018, 02:37:39 pm
Come spring and nobody remembers!
:-)

Exactly what thirty million Canadians are about to do. Forget Winter.
Title: Re: Ice out at Bears Den
Post by: MattBurt on February 26, 2018, 05:49:13 pm: I like it! I usually go for a little more water detail (faster shutter) for my own work but I think this one works well and looks great as-is.
Title: Re: Ice out at Bears Den
Post by: guido on February 27, 2018, 09:04:50 am: Shutter speeds for moving water is always a great topic for debate. This image is another of my beginners experiments with HDR. This is a 5 shot HDR merge, taken at a fixed aperture so it really has a 5 f-stop range of shutter speeds to play with. I was expecting to have to fight all sorts of ghosting issues but Affinity Photo handled it all quite cleanly with no need to clean anything up. I need to play with it a bit more to see how it is picking the shutter speed "target" from the set, to let me choose the effect more explicitly. But I'm encouraged by the results!