Frost No.2

I know it's been photographed before, but there are innumerable

patterns to be found in window frost. This is natural light.

 

cheers,

Aaron

I love it Aaron!

Aaron, of course it has been done before, but your results are outstanding.

 

Just to mention only one of the many things I like, let it be the justapoxition of cold and warm colours.

 

To some respect, it comes almost as incongrous to me. The reason is that we'd expect it to be quite cold, outside, yet we have these warm colours as a background.

 

From a compositional point of view, this arrangement is perfect: I like a strong central point where the eye is attracted. It balances the tendency of the viewer to get lost into the implicitely fractal detail of the subject.

Superb macro! Its great how well the cold blue color fits in with warm red and orange.

Aaron

Your right "frost" has been done before but most never lived up to these. They have the look of trees. The blue color pallet against the peach background really wins me over.

Jim

Excelente imagen, perfecta luz, color y belleza de composicion, el fondo espectacular, un cordial saludo Aaron, y -Felicidades.

Yes ... it's been done before. But, if we only took pictures of things that have never been done before this would be a pretty small site. I'm starting to think we worry far too much about originality and not enough about just making great pictures ... which this most assuredly is. I agree that the color palette is unique and I really enjoy looking at this. How about some details? How big was the actual frost? How did you get the color back there? Did you use a flash?

Wow, thanks everyone for the overwhelming response!

 

Bill, I shot this with my 180mm macro lens at 1:1. This frame is uncropped, so that makes it 1"x1.5" These make fantastic 12x18s with loads of fine structure. Crazy, huh. As I said, this is natural, early morning light. There was fog out, which was rare for where I live. With such shallow focus, it created this wonderfully diffuse gradation. There is no flash.

 

cheers,

Aaron

Very nice... The colors are perfectly balanced... cold and warm tones... VERY nice...

Beautiful series! It's hard to have a favorite. The frame seems a little heavy on this one, but it's an awesome image!

Great image aaron. Superb definition of the textures and interesting colours. It reminds me of some of the "visions of science" images (http://www.visions-of-science.co.uk/index.html). This is a UK photogaphy competition and initiative that aims to explore uncharted territory between science and aesthetics. Your images are right up there with the prizewinners.

Aaron, I love this image in portrait, and as said before, the juxtaposition of cold and warm color. I imagine this fantastic 12x18 framed. It is an image that can be stared at and studied for hours. Cheers.

Hi Kurt,

 

you're right, it looks very good framed. Thanks for stopping by.