Ice Composition #5

ingenious use of polarizing filters. have you tried to fix the camera and superimpose the number of images with different angle of polarization?

What you are suggesting, I think, is to make multiple exposures on the same film, combining

several images of the ice taken at different angles of polarization. Your idea is a good one,

but inconvient for me to execute, for several reasons:

 

I'm utilzing a 35mm camera. It would be more practicable to combine individual images in the darkroom or via a computer, than to try to pre- visualize the results while making the original images.

 

The angle of polarization is really a function of the angle of incident sunlight. One would have to wait for the sun to move, so that the ice is illuminated at a different incident angle, for the

polarized light to be reflected at a different

angle of polarization. One could set the camera

on a tripod, and record images of the same patch

of ice, one image each hour for as long as the sunlight lasts (adjusting the lens' polarizing filter for each image, to allow for the change in the angle of incidence of the sunlight). One could then experiment in the darkroom, or on a computer,

to find the most successful combination of images

from the set.

 

Thanks for the suggestion. I hadn't thought of doing what you had suggested (combining multiple exposures taken at different polarization angles).

I'd never thought of such a different use of a polarizing filter, or even thought of trying to capture that type of subject in that way. I commend you on both an innovative choice of subject and execution. Beautiful image.

That shard on the right looks like an angel wing. Incredible. I'm speechless.

a great photograph and very inspiring too.

Absolutely stunning. Great work.

Had to look! I tool some shots of an ice cube a while back but the colors and the composition were not as interesting as this one. Come to think of it, maybe if I saturate the colors on some of mine they may be worth saving. I like the dark area in the middle surrouded by a rainbow of colors. The area to the right of the photo seems a little lifeless and awkward as if it is a residual of solarization.