Tiny Marsh @ -24F

No ratings requested but your comments are valued like gold! What

would you do differently? Composition? Lens choice? Post exposure

manipulation? This was taken at sunrise on a frosty Jan. morning.

Best, LM.

Snow scenes are sometimes difficult to capture I have discovered, what we seen as white, the camera may see as gray or even blue depending on the light. You did a good job over all. I might would try to make the broken water in the middle of the image the main attraction by moving in a little closer and bringing it into the foreground. The current foreground seems a little sparse. I enjoy finding places like this to photograph...makes it kind of fun!

Len, There's a nice feel to this shot with the early light on the trees and the cold of the snow. Did you go forward to the open water? It looks like there was some nice colour happening there.

Keith, Thanks for taking the time & for your input. Your observations re: the foreground are valid. I was standing on a bridge and, so, couldn't move forward at all. I was going to use my 150mm to solve that problem for me but my camera batteries froze up right after this shot. My eyes may have also tricked me into thinking the darker channel near the bottom right corner was actually darker than it looks here & thus a better foreground element. Some days you get the bear; some days it gets you. :-( Best, LM.

 

Jeff, Thanks for stopping by. Actually, at -24F I was beginning to lose any feelings I had at all. Oh! You mean photographically! :-) As I said, this was the last shot taken at this location. By the time I got back to my car for my Rollei the moments were lost. We had to thaw out at a coffee shop & decided to move on to another location. (Willow Creek.....see my 2004 folder with my B&W's) Short answer: No. Best, LM.

Got to playing with this one to see if I could emulate the view my 150mm would have given me. Naturally I would have moved to the right on the bridge for a different perspective but I think you get the idea. Best, LM.

Thanks Len. That would have worked well with the light that was around at the time. The reflections in the open water would have been great. That sounds like a good reason for a return visit on a slightly warmer day.

Amazing content contrast: warm light on trees versus cold snowy ground. Some one is capable of thinking even in the frozen woods. :-)

 

I also enjoy the low perspective (close to the ground.) It provides an angle that is not normal to human eye level.

 

Now, the last thing I want to comment is where was the photographer standing? In a shallow (hopefully shallow) pool of frozen water?

Arthur, Always a delight to hear from you. The warm light is indeed deceiving as the temperature was very cold but worth the effort I think. I was standing on a bridge (see related post with the sun peeking over the horizon) about 5 ft. above the surface of the stream. The abundance of white foreground may camouflage that fact. I may be an enthusiast but I'm not foolish :-) (don't believe my wife!) Best, LM.