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The tip of an ice berg

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Posted by Stephen Kaluski on January 30, 2010 at 3:07 PM
The tip of an ice berg
OK, not quite Ansel Adams, but for me it's trying to think of something different.

Fat, far out to sea was a pair of Glaucous gulls perched high on the pinnacle of the two ice bergs. The day was grey and dank, not to be out on deck :biggrin:

Rather than colour, I felt the B/W gave more feeling & mood?

Steve
MKIII 24-70 f2.8 1/100sec f/11 ISO400 (HH not great with the roll of the ship :wink:)
Posted by Calum Dickson on January 30, 2010 at 3:19 PM
I had to do a double take when I saw this Steve..... stick your left hand out in front of you and "give someone the bird" then look at the iceberg :biggrin:

It's certainly not run of the mill, very atmospheric.
:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:
Calum
Posted by Des Ong on January 30, 2010 at 3:28 PM
Absolutely wonderful!!!

Des
Posted by Liam Pauling on January 30, 2010 at 4:24 PM
Brilliant image, black and white has given it some serous impact!

:toast::toast:
liam
Posted by Maggie Campbell on January 30, 2010 at 5:15 PM
An absolutely fantastic image. I can't imagine it in anything other that B&W - it is just made for it. Oh dear I think I feel a Kate Winslet moment coming on :biggrin:
Posted by Karen Summers on January 30, 2010 at 5:17 PM
smashing shot great in black and white and look at the shape of that iceberg very interesting
Posted by john macpherson on January 31, 2010 at 4:00 AM
Very nice indeed. Love the scale imposed on the shot by the gulls when you finally spot them. B&W is the ideal way to show this image. Excellent.
Posted by Sandra Hendrikse on January 31, 2010 at 6:12 AM
Wonderful image. The B & W works very well here. :smile: :smile:
Posted by Robert Lawrence on January 31, 2010 at 9:56 AM
A very interesting subject Steve but for me the composition doesn't quite work. I feel that the bright top right quarter adds nothing to the overall image and would prefer to see more of the interesting foreground as that looks far stronger, particularly with the B/W treatment.
Posted by Stephen Kaluski on January 31, 2010 at 10:41 AM
Thanks everyone for taking the time to comment. :wavey:

Great Rob, happy that you have made the comment and justified it, great. I guess it is all subjective, but we can distill the thoughts and comments made by others and probably cropping it might help? If it was all nice image then life would be rather boring and we would never move on. :wink:

cheers
Steve
Posted by Bronia Klima on January 31, 2010 at 11:45 AM
Very dramatic shot Steve you can feel the cold
Bronia
Posted by tony flashman on January 31, 2010 at 3:22 PM
Works for me as is. Would love to see this as a large poster.

Tony :toast: :toast:
Posted by Brett Lewis on January 31, 2010 at 4:16 PM
Very dramatic and quite awesome nature at its best. Nice work Steve.

Brett :toast: :toast:
Posted by Philip Newman on January 31, 2010 at 4:41 PM
Super image works so well in B & W. :toast:

Posted by Guy Rogers on January 31, 2010 at 5:02 PM
Hello Stephen.

I think this is great and can only guess how good this would look like at full size. And those gulls are perfectly placed and give this image that something else.

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
Posted by John Chapman on February 1, 2010 at 6:03 AM
Hi Steve nice capture in B&W. These are not Glaucous Gulls. :toast:
Posted by Stephen Kaluski on February 1, 2010 at 6:34 AM
Hi John, if they are not, can you tell me please what they are? As I was led to believe they were, however it would be nice to know. Thanks :wavey:

Steve
Posted by John Chapman on February 1, 2010 at 10:49 AM
Hi Steve as you can see the Gulls are very small, but I see black on the wings and my guess would be Greater Black Backed Gulls. :toast: John.
Posted by Stephen Kaluski on February 1, 2010 at 11:17 AM
Hi John, I was trying to go from memory, but I don't think the colour version helps. It's not right by any means for posting, but just more for any help?

cheers
steve
Posted by John Chapman on February 1, 2010 at 12:55 PM
Hi Steve, still got black on the wings Glaucous is cream. Greater Black Backed Gulls. :toast:
Posted by Robert Lawrence on February 1, 2010 at 2:18 PM
Steve, I came back to this and was interested to see the colour version. The sky looks far stronger on here than it does on the original B/W posting. It looks to me (at least on this monitor) that the B/W image has lost detail in that top right quarter. Did you lighten that area on the B/W version to help the iceberg stand out? In the colour version the tones look quite similar and I would imagine that there would be less separation in B/W.