Ice - from sunnier days

Aynia · Post by **Aynia** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:59 am

We are heading for the wettest August in history - at least here in Ireland. Garden is soggy and squidgy and many of the bugs aren't here.

So here are a few shots I took in February. We had lovely sun, but it was freezing. The ice is water from the bird water - which I had to break so they could have a drink. First one is it broken.

Other two, I picked it up and held it to the sky for better background.

Taken with Olympus e510, 35mm macro lens at full magnification. Available light.

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:18 am

Oh nice shots Aynia! I know what you mean about the weather- it doesn't seem to have stopped raining all year!

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:18 am

A beautiful way of thinking out of the box for a change. I like the lighting and the composition of the third image, very nice.

augusthouse · Post by **augusthouse** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:55 am

Aynia,
They all caught my eye; but that third one really made me stop and look. It has many abstract shapes within it - can you see the outline of a horse - he is looking to the right?

Beautiful.

Craig

Jbailey · Post by **Jbailey** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:16 am

Aynia:

Very nice photos. Good composition and imagination as well.

A late friend of mine once suggested to me to try using a polarizing filter on the camera and having the camera and ice face away from the sun where you get the maximum polarization effect.

I haven't tried yet.

You should get good interference colors with real thin ice like you found.

We had our eight inches of rain over a couple of days in early spring. Some Wisconsin farm fields are still under water. Our area is pretty much drought--typical for August.

Jim

Aynia · Post by **Aynia** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:11 am

augusthouse wrote:Aynia,
They all caught my eye; but that third one really made me stop and look. It has many abstract shapes within it - can you see the outline of a horse - he is looking to the right?

Beautiful.

Craig

Craig, now that you mention it, yep, I can see the horse.

Thanks for the nice comments guys.

Have a few more interesting ones. The ice was held up with the help of a stone frog which was in the middle of the container. Little shards were interesting but very fragile and melted quickly. My arms were sore too.

I have a polariser - ok not mine, but it's in the house so if we get some more ice I might have a go and see what happens.

P_T · Post by **P_T** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:06 am

I love the refraction on those ice, they really are quite beautiful aren't they?

Just one thing though, I see 3 sensor dust spots on the left and right of the last two photos. No biggie though, just a few clone stamps would get rid of those easily.

Speaking of which, what do you guys use to clean your sensors?

Aynia · Post by **Aynia** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:23 am

pt... not sensor dust, but water drops on my filter (uv filter) more than likey from holding the ice higher than the camera. Ice was quite a big lump for the first few shots and possibly was overlapping etc. Also hands were freezing and left hand doesn't really move where I want it.

I could clone them out..

As for cleaning the sensor.. so far I haven't done it on my e510. Only got it done once on e500 though not sure if it needed it. Freebee from the camera shop to customers - for others it's about €50.

Wouldn't try it myself.