Daily Archives: February 16, 2009
2/17/2009
Rime of a different kind
Another Rime shot from my morning image trek the other winter day. This one is straight on macro, taken from inches away, at the edge of a small ditch along the border of the marsh, where the falling tide had draped the rime over grasses. The blue sky behind sets the image off.
You would have laughed to see me down in the ditch, my flip up LCD flipped up, bent over double to get the low angle, with the camera strap clutched close to keep it from dragging in the ice. The camera was millimeters from the ground, and angled slightly up. I teetered there for several moments taking a series of shots as I varied the angle and distance from the edge of the ditch. I don’t know what anyone watching might have thought I was doing, but I can tell you I was very thankful for the flip out LCD on the H50 along about then.
Sony DSC H50 at full wide (31mm equiv.). F5.6 @ 1/400 @ ISO 100. Snow Scene select and -.7EV exposure compensation. Macro mode.
Recovery in Lightroom for the transparency of the ice. Clarity and Portrait sharpen preset. Vibrance for the grasses and the sky. Cropped slightly at the bottom to eliminate out of focus ice.
2/16/2009
Rime
Sea water is not supposed to freeze…too much salt. Of course it does freeze under the right conditions. Here, as the tide fell, it left a delicate rime of ice on the grasses of the marsh behind the dunes, beside the river, and, mixed with fresh river water, froze at least to semi-solid in the tiny pool in the hollow of the grasses.
I took many shots of different rime formations in the low sun of this February day. I like the composition of this one, the strong slanting line which divides the smooth patterns of the water from the frozen grasses…which I feel sets off the delicate detail of the bold swirling patters above.
This is another shot from the series I took on my very international trip to gather winter images at some of my local hot spots. Parson’s Beach in this case, about 2 miles from my front door.
Sony DSC H50 zoomed to about 100mm equiv. to crop. F5.6 @ 1/640th @ ISO 100. Programed Auto. Snow Scene select with -.7 EV exposure compensation.
In Lightroom the image was cropped slightly on the left to remove a dark shaddow in the upper corner. Recovery to bring out the details in the rime. Some added Clarity and Sharpness, and a bit of Vibrance to pick up the gold tones of the grasses underneath.