The last couple of mornings have been magical! Heavy frost clung to everything. Brilliant sunshine danced off the lacy crystals creating a spectacular light show. Photos simply can not replicate the brilliance and intensity of such conditions. In the image below, the tiny pink dots are crystals reflecting the sunlight.
I’m delighted to share with you a little bit of detail. If you would like to download the image for your desktop, you can find specific screen resolutions here.
Tag: nature
frozen bubbles
Where a branch dips into the flowing water, ice builds up. Snow piles on top and unusual formations take shape.
This shot was taken at 1/320 of a second and freeze some but not all of the foaming water.
I look forward to returning to this creek with my tripod and more time to play with the capture of liquid and solid.
happy heart day
My Heart is happiest when spending time with the most special people in my life! 😉
new day; new year
Sunrises over frosty, frozen Agimak Lake in Ignace, Ontario
over under
Water cascades over rocks in the creek glazing them as temperatures hover around the freezing point.
shades of (not so) grey
Here’s a screen shot in Lightroom, before and after view, of my not so black and white misty morning image.
The saturation slider (last slider in the adjustment panel on right hand side) was moved all the way to the left removing all colour.
In Photoshop, we can look at the pixels up close. Using the colour picker tool, we can select an area of the image to see what the colour is. I hovered the eyedropper over a grey part of the image just above and to the right of the dialogue box and clicked. I tried this in a number of areas of the image with consistent results. (When I attempted a screen shot capture to share my findings, the eyedropper vanished from the screen! The image below was shot with my iPhone!)
Did you guess the hint of colour is orange? Darker shades of orange become brown and when added to an image create a sepia or aged look.
So my original image had a natural infusion of sepia!
Karen Greaves Photography & Fibre Art 