Svartisen Glacier

Gallery: LandscapePosted August 7, 2013244 views11 comments

The picture shows a tongue of the Svartisen Glacier in Northern Norway. The glacier has retreated a lot in the past few years leaving behind bare rocks with the fascinating patterns you see in the picture. The image is a vertical stitch of two images made with a tilt-shift lens.
Canon 5D MkII with 17 mm TS lens
ISO 100, 1/80 sec f/13
Your comments are appreciated

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11 comments

Comment posted by Verdon on August 7, 2013 at 12:47 PM

great line, tones and hole different surfaces lead to glacier, well composed image, love the greens on the hill as a great complimentary to awesome frame , well done Chris!

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Comment posted by Chet Dowell on August 7, 2013 at 3:39 PM

You have served up a nice feast for the eye, Chris. The foreground lines, colors and texture provide a strong entry and leading line. A very nice image.

Chet

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on August 7, 2013 at 5:08 PM

Chris, What an interesting view you came up with here, and it works great. I really like the lines and wonderful colors, then you have all that great texture to enjoy. Nice work on this.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Jared Warren on August 7, 2013 at 6:38 PM

Really interesting lines and textures. Very nice capture of a unique location.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on August 7, 2013 at 9:27 PM

The foreground lines are very eye catching and lead to the nice blue tones of the glacier. There just enough texture in the sky to keep it from being uniformly grey and uninteresting. Nicely done.

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Comment posted by Bill Reid on August 8, 2013 at 8:52 AM

Beautiful textures and tones in this Chris. Great leading lines and I like the colors in the image. Well done.

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Comment posted by Neale Dyster on August 8, 2013 at 10:21 AM

I agree with all that has been said already. Great image Chris.

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Comment posted by Roel Wijtmans on August 8, 2013 at 11:38 AM

Amazing rocks, just the way I like them! Well done.

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on August 8, 2013 at 12:04 PM

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Comment posted by Harry Lichtman on August 9, 2013 at 8:59 AM

Interesting patterns and POV. Noticed the sky, especially on the LG version seems to have some funky colors going on. Greens and magentas which look a bit out of place. A result of processing

Correcting that area would be a plus, especially for printing. Maybe de-sat. the area as the sky looks pretty grey anyway. What a grand place to explore.

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Comment posted by Chris Stenger on August 9, 2013 at 3:50 PM

Thanks for all your comments. It's a remarkable and beautiful place for photography indeed and I have spent many hours there.

Harry, to be honest, I didn't notice the funky colours in the sky, but you are right, under carreful inspection I can see some strange things in the sky. It's an artefact of the jpeg compression. In the original file, a print and the non-compressed low res file the sky is perfectly grey without the greens and magenta's. These colours develop during jpeg compression of the low res file. I had to use a fairly strong jpeg compression at level 7 to reduce the file size of the 1200 px image to below the NPN allowable 500 kb. Apparently this fairly strong compression leads to some artefacts in the sky.

Registered on May 9, 2013, 27 Posts, 163 Comments