Thursday, December 8, 2011

Frozen Pond


Frozen Pond
NCAR10D-44_HDR
January 31, 2010

Continuing on the theme of winter this week, as I get more excited about the trip to Colorado which will hopefully yield some snow and some winter pictures, this image comes from my former backyard.  My first winter, Raleigh got an appreciable amount of snow, which precipitated two things: 1) everyone freaked out over the 2-4" of snow that was blanketing the ground, even though it wasn't that much snow to begin with, and 2) some lovely shots from around Lake Johnson.  I spent a delightful day wandering around, finding little places to visualize the rare winter wonderland of Raleigh.  This image was a small pond, with water trickling down but still having a frozen sheet over the top, as well as a smattering of late-fall leaves that stuck around.  Constructed from 3 images in Photomatix, I feel it shows off some of the benefits of the HDR world... I got decent shadow detail in the left side and right hill, while keeping the color in the tree leaves and detail in the snow.  Enjoy.


Technical notes:
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Sigma 10-20 f/4-5.6
Focal length:  11 mm
Exposure: n/a @ f/25, ISO 100
Post-processing: HDR image created from 3 images using Photomatix, final image cropped down with contrast and tone adjustment, sharpening in PS4 & LR1.4

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