Icy Waters

Gallery: Photo ArtPosted January 20, 201158 views5 comments

Winter, snow, ice ... it seems like it's been a long winter and it's not over yet. I find it challenging to photograph snow and ice, but I keep trying.

I captured this image about a week ago at the Biltmore Estate here in Asheville. We had cabin fever but as soon as the sun came out we headed out for a ride. I initially thought it would make a good black and white image so I tried that conversion. Still not happy with that look, I pulled the image into Color Efex Pro for this artistic look.

I think the branch on the left is just a tad distracting, but I couldn't crop anymore from the image. However I do like this look and think it could make a very nice holiday card.

Camera is a Nikon D70, handheld on a very cold day.

I appreciate your viewing this image and comments are very much welcomed.

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Lorna Taylor on January 20, 2011 at 11:10 PM

Beautiful work Barbara!

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Comment posted by Jason Scanlan on January 21, 2011 at 8:18 PM

Hi Barbara,
I checked out your web and you took an otherwise mundane image and turned it in to something special. I like what you did. Nice job

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Comment posted by Barbara Sammons on January 21, 2011 at 9:21 PM

Thanks everyone for viewing this image. You're right Jason. Snow is a hard subject, but I feel the time spent in post-processing this image was worth it. I think it's fine to help Mother Nature every now and then. And I'm really pleased with the result. Thanks for checking out my website. I have a new gallery called "Before and After" where I show the original image and how it changes depending on the processing techniques and this image is in that gallery. Thanks for all the comments. They are greatly appreciated.

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Comment posted by David W. Kelly on January 23, 2011 at 7:50 AM

Beautiful Barbara. If you have CS5 content aware fill might aid in removing the branch on the left.

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Comment posted by Barbara Sammons on January 23, 2011 at 1:39 PM

Thanks David, I'll give that a try to see how I like the composition.

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