Cold Eyes

Gallery: LandscapePosted October 14, 2013614 views20 comments

Shot this inside a snowcave in the Broken Top area. Marc led us down there on a workshop I attended while on my trip to oregon. They are pretty awesome to be inside. I was standing around waiting for some of the other peeps on the workshop to finish up a shot, when I just started messing around with this comp, and I think it's one of the more interesting comps I came away with. Interested to hear your thoughts.

It was a run n gun type of situation... the spray from the water was really bad, so I had to place the camera... click, click, click, without looking, pull the camera up, review, dry off the lens, and then try again. My brand new 14-24 was getting drenched. It had me a little nervous.

Comments

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Comment posted by Bill Chambers on October 14, 2013 at 12:58 PM

Excellent Ted. Your shutter speed is dead on for the flow. Yeah, I'd be a little nervous too if my lens was getting soaked.

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Comment posted by Gary McGhee on October 14, 2013 at 2:17 PM

Love the point of view Ted, really great shot.

Gary.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on October 14, 2013 at 2:46 PM

Glad you were able to come away with an out of the ordinary, excellent shot and a whole lens!

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Comment posted by Hamed Musharbak on October 14, 2013 at 2:50 PM

this is amazing!!! Ted

great job

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Comment posted by Jeremy Kessler on October 14, 2013 at 5:15 PM

Great shot Ted!

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Comment posted by Yiming Hu on October 14, 2013 at 6:40 PM

Amazing, like the cool tones and the flow. The upper portion is kind of noisy. Other than that there's no nit from me.

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Comment posted by Peter Coskun on October 14, 2013 at 7:51 PM

These ice cave shots always remind me of some sort of alien cave. I like your take here with the in your face cascade and how the lines counteract with each other. It seems a little right heavy with that large rock, but I don't think you could have had the flow of said lines working so well together if you were another step over. Great work Ted.

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Comment posted by Luke Ormand on October 14, 2013 at 8:14 PM

Looks like it was worth the spray.... the image is quite surreal with the ice dome and the water shooting straight at the camera before dropping off. Well executed

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Comment posted by Shane McDermott on October 14, 2013 at 8:43 PM

Very effective image Ted, it looks like you are entering into the belly of the beast. Well executed!

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Comment posted by Vance Gese on October 14, 2013 at 10:45 PM

The lines and movement, both of the water and the icy ceiling of the cave, are out of this world amazing. Fantastic work.

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Comment posted by Aaron Feinberg on October 15, 2013 at 12:42 AM

These cave shots are always cool...this is way up there in awesomeness.

aF

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Comment posted by Dan Kearl on October 15, 2013 at 1:43 AM

Nice creative photo.
I would clone out the black spots on the "roof", and run a bit of noise reduction.

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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on October 15, 2013 at 10:04 AM

This turned out great, so worth the little bit of the lens soaking. I am glad the lens turned out safe. Cool image!

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Comment posted by Marc Adamus on October 15, 2013 at 10:43 AM

Really unique, Ted. I know how tough this must have been to get and process too. Totally awesome work!

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Comment posted by John Williams on October 15, 2013 at 10:55 AM

Love the comp here Ted; glad you had to stand around and wait. Perfect processing as well. (I'm the opposite. I keep hoping to have an accident with my old gear, so I can return home with a tale of woe and the need to replace!

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Comment posted by Ted Gore on October 15, 2013 at 12:05 PM

Thanks everyone! I appreciate the suggestions. I know the image is quite noisy, I actually had to increase the exposure of this shot by 4 stops in RAW! Because of the wet situation, I had to shoot quick, with a high aperture so I could do it all in one shot. The shots ended up being very underexposed. I'm actually really impressed I was able to increase the exposure this much and still have a usable image. Thanks to the d600! I will do some work with the noise and see if I can get rid of some of it.

Peter, I hear ya on the right heavy. I agree, it is. But, not sure there was anything I could have done about it!

Marc, thanks for showing us this place!

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Comment posted by Mark Metternich on October 15, 2013 at 9:58 PM

Awesome dude as I said elsewhere! Since I live nearby this place I'll have to finally check it out! Great take!!!

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on October 16, 2013 at 11:34 AM

I think you have a unique take on a what's becoming a familiar scene here. The bowed lines from top down and bottom's up leading to the outside makes for a fine eye driving comp. The water spray adds a sense of time, and the light and toning are appropriately cool. Excellent work.

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Comment posted by Bill Reid on October 18, 2013 at 8:36 AM

You killed it Ted. I really like this. Great concept and processing.

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Comment posted by Abdullaziz Bin Ali on October 19, 2013 at 3:16 AM

Excellent

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