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Gogu
3rd of March 2005 (Thu), 22:13
Well...this is my first photo that i post in the forum so i hope youll like it.
Icicles formed on my balcony window after a really cold day and i just happened to be there to see it :p
JeffreyP
3rd of March 2005 (Thu), 22:48
That is an amazing photo. I love it. Great composition & tones.


Gives you a sharp cold feeling plus a soft warm feeling. amazing.

Nicely done, excellent skill there, thanks for sharing that one.
cactusclay
3rd of March 2005 (Thu), 22:54
Very nice, good balance.
PeaPicker
4th of March 2005 (Fri), 10:17
Great photo. What camera and settings?
dewmuw
4th of March 2005 (Fri), 10:21
Welcome to the forum!

Great shot - love the composition. The ice doesn't look to be melting either so I guess the sun didn't get too warm! :)
RbnDave
4th of March 2005 (Fri), 10:36
welcome to the forum.

You have a good eye for light. Good idea for shooting the setting sun through ice. However, I don't like the composition of this photo. My eye is distracted between the two subjects. Do I look at the sun or the icicle?
Hellashot
4th of March 2005 (Fri), 17:20
A smaller a appeture would make the image a little less eye straining.
Steve Parr
4th of March 2005 (Fri), 20:09
Do I look at the sun or the icicle?

I found myself looking at the whole picture.

I don't think that's a bad thing...

Steve
Gogu
5th of March 2005 (Sat), 01:08
thanks for the comments guys! :cool:
jmuduchess12
5th of March 2005 (Sat), 07:37
i love the contrast between the dark outline of the icicle and the muted tones of the sky. the sun is beautiful.
jfrancho
5th of March 2005 (Sat), 20:31
I love it. I recently caught one hanging off my gutter: http://plan-b.smugmug.com/photos/16647393-M.jpg.
Thanks for sharing your pic.
charlesu
6th of March 2005 (Sun), 06:50
Welcome to the forum. Great image. An interesting study in contrasts. Cold, hard. Warm, enveloping. Hmmmm....

Wonder if you could select the icicle and add just a bit of blue tone to it to emphasize the coldness.

Very cool image. Nice capture. Thanks for sharing.
WPG
6th of March 2005 (Sun), 10:47
i like it alot. only thing i would try to do next time is to try to get the ice more in focus it seems soft to me. tho it could be when you changed its size down to 72dpi and made it 600ish in pixel size. photoshop like most other programs loose the sharpness of the picture a tad. to fix it use the USM (un-sharpen mask) + fade to mode to luminosity it will make the ice less soft after you resized your image for the web. that's a tip i just learned it works pretty good. try it out.