Hi Patrick,
This image is CRAZY GOOD. I love it. The wavy lines are so cool. =) Awesome scene!
My ONLY area for improvement is the bright area upper right corner… if you can burn that a little it might be helpful. I don’t think it’s “necessary” by any means but it might help.
Sweet work!
Hey Patrick-What a great photo-and a great thought to capture this image. Your skating is as impressive as the photo. I’ve never skated, neither forward nor backwards. Well done.
Well-conceived and captured! That small brighter area in the upper right is a little distracting, and might be burned a bit - otherwise just excellent!
Thanks, Ted. There is usually only a week or two in November here in the Canadian Rockies where the ice is thick enough for skating before the snow flies and covers it all over. Time to get out the skates!
Very good, Patrick. I love the bright white curved lines. I could see going totally abstract with this by adding a curves adjustment layer to turn the background solid black, removing all context. I’d tuck this one away in an abstract folder for future playing. I could see adding a fire layer underneath and using blending modes to create a really wild effect.
Great mysterious abstract capture. Did you have your camera in hand, or hanging around your neck? Did you intentionally “paint” this pattern for the shot? Fascinating capture!
Awesome photo @patrick1! I really like how the skate lines are actually lit up and how they trail off. Nice light coming from the top and the silhouetted tree line marks the top of the image from left to right. B&W truly does this image justice!
Thank you, Dennis. I have not worked much in layers but will have to look into that. I don’t know what a “fire layer” is. Wouldn’t that melt the ice? (Kidding!)
Thank you, Dave. I was using a small pocket camera IPanasonic DMC-LX2) so just whipped it out of my pocket. I wasn’t actually intending to create a pattern for a photo but couldn’t resist when I saw the pattern. When you skate backwards, your skates stay on the ice and you just push from one foot then the next, which creates the patterns and digs up some ice crystals that outline the pattern. I was lucky that there were no other marks from other skaters the morning I found this spot!
This is amazing - I think you could do a whole series of shots given your combined skating and shooting skills. You just need to pick the right time and place, I guess, which is probably not that easy.
Great work.
Alright from one Patrick to another, I’m going to take a slightly different tact just for fun. I’m usually one to make a dark background like this go black like others have suggested. I could see burning down that upper right corner. But as a thought, what about actually lightening up the upper left to match the right? It would bring out these trees and actually might add more abstraction to the image, not less. It might look like lines in the sky, not ice, and mess with the perspective. And I like the idea of doing a series when the opportunity comes. Could be a lot of fun. And congrats on having this in a show.
