Frozen Lake Photo

Photo of a frozen lake in the area here. I realize the sky is blown out, would a hard stop GND filter really help, it was pretty bright that direction.

Anyway comments are welcome!

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Maybe try an exposure fusion or an HDR using three different exposures. I have the same problem and most probably do when pointing directly at the sun. Just a question I'd like to ask.
How cold was it at the time of the shot? I'm scared to take mine out below 0 celcius or 32 farenheit.
I know they say that it's not the cold that hurts , it's the quick change in temperature. I defineitly don't need condensation.Any tips for cold weather?

Vidcanon wrote in post #9221796
Maybe try an exposure fusion or an HDR using three different exposures. I have the same problem and most probably do when pointing directly at the sun. Just a question I'd like to ask.
How cold was it at the time of the shot? I'm scared to take mine out below 0 celcius or 32 farenheit.
I know they say that it's not the cold that hurts , it's the quick change in temperature. I defineitly don't need condensation.Any tips for cold weather?

When I head off up the hills or whatever in minus temperatures I always take one of those sealable poly bags with me and pop the lens into it before entering a warm place (a mountain hut or returning to my car). I've never had a problem.

Like he said... I've never had a problem with cold temp I have had the camera out for extended periods of -10 F with no issues. Batteries will drain fast though. Just make sure your camera is in the camera bag (or zip lock or whatever) with the lid shut BEFORE you go back in the warm air. Or you will get the condensation build up. If you are going in the car then getting back out then leave the camera in the trunk but take the batteries inside.

It was about 0F degrees for that shot above.

LIVE4SPD wrote in post #9222122
Like he said... I've never had a problem with cold temp I have had the camera out for extended periods of -10 F with no issues. Batteries will drain fast though. Just make sure your camera is in the camera bag (or zip lock or whatever) with the lid shut BEFORE you go back in the warm air. Or you will get the condensation build up. If you are going in the car then getting back out then leave the camera in the trunk but take the batteries inside.

It was about 0F degrees for that shot above.

Thanks so much you two . It's -4 today and sunny maybe I can get some bird shots?
My lens is a fixed lens so it obviously can't be removed . I heard of the old freezer bag trick before but never tried it. Thxs again.

A good point LIVE4SPD made about batteries. I've had cameras out in extremely low temperatures and although the sealable poly bag thing works with condensation, I've had batteries freeze on me on several occasions. I now keep a spare battery inside my jacket next to my body.

I've also had a lens frost over while pointing it into the wind on a cold, wet day, but hopefully you'll not be as stupid as me!

My tact would be to move so the sun is just behind the trees to knock down it's intensity, but you can still see it.

That's what I did with my snowy tree shot (not to hijack you post, just showing my example):

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Yea I see. That's a good solution. Thanks for the idea.

Personally I like the blown out sky and the sun rays, it makes it more into an arty photographers photo than a photoshopped picture which is all to common these days.
It looks real which I also like. HDR looks too polished and clean IMHO but each to their own.
I say nice shot!!!

It's an effective picture for me, a lake person. Thank you. I haven't seen the pattern often. Was it caused by hard frost on open lake, with high wind producing a chop on the water? A minor point: if the sun is to feel warm on the face, the color is right; if it's still cold so early in the morning, the ice could be bluer.

Well there wasn't much warmth out there, but the color temp is accurate for the sunset.

Not sure what caused it, there was large patches of it here and there. I'm guessing that's it's either ice crystals or frost that was probably enhanced by the wind.

Thanks for the comments everyone.

You are fortunate in that this is an easy mask job in photoshop to make an excellent image.

Easy mask how? I mean there's no detail in the sky so it's not like I can just darken it down. It would be grey then. Right?

So other then pasting in a sky from somewhere else that's it right? I'm not really wanting to do that.

Curious to what you are thinking here.

TIA

Make a mask so that you have just the sky and tree line visible. Duplicate and blen using multiply.Duplicate again and once more for luck, and blow me there's some orange in the sky.

8X10 crop eliminates the sky and keeps the ice and light.looks sweet.