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.

From Winter Weather: Kennebunk.