{"id":1852,"date":"2011-01-07T05:33:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T10:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sipotd.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/07\/172010-icy-kiss\/"},"modified":"2011-01-07T05:33:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T10:33:47","slug":"172010-icy-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"1\/7\/2010: Icy Kiss!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Take one more look at the image before you read all about the difficulties of making it.<\/p>\n

A little curl of water and lacy ice surrounded by snow, and an all but impossible exposure problem. I decided to let the snow go completely white, in order to bring some light and life to the flowing water and some texture to the ice. I tried it both ways. This is one of those cases where I over-ruled the built in Snow Mode using Exposure Compensation.  Unfortunately, the snow goes gray very quickly, if you decrease exposure, and the water goes too dark. All in all I prefer this standard Snow Mode treatment. The tight crop, is, of course, to emphasize the pattern of ice and water.<\/p>\n

This is what it looks like pulled back a bit.<\/p>\n

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You can see from the dappled light patterns that the adjacent snow happened to be in sun patches on both sides.  <\/p>\n

Canon SX20IS at 290mm equivalent, f5 @ 1\/80th @ ISO 200. Snow Mode.<\/p>\n

Wide shot at 70mm equivalent, f4 @ 1\/160 @ ISO 80, also Snow Mode.<\/p>\n

Ah yes\u2026but that is just technique\u2026the image either stands as it is, or it does not. <\/p>\n

Works for me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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