Icebergs found off Ragged Point, Twillingate, Newfoundland captured at Dusk exposing the form and texture of this massive structure, approximately 10,000yrs of age, having floated down from Greenland like again sail.
This iceberg was beached in 200ft of water and scaled around 9 storeys in height. The triplets all descended from the behemoth.
Cropping and exposure
20mm lens - f16 at 1/40 second, hand held Leica D-Lux 8
That berg is enormous! I love the detail and color you were able to capture in the ice. My only concern here is the lack of detail in the foreground. Those large dark areas distract from the bergs and the water, which are the stars of the show. It is nice that you have some detail in the sky.
-P
Wow, nine stories tall! I don’t get that sense of size from this - not sure how you would do that from the shore. The light on the iceberg is divine. I’m with Preston on the foreground. Since the subject is the iceberg, I could see having less foreground and making the foreground lighter. Or maybe framing the scene with just those really dark rocks and the iceberg. That might be dramatic.
Hi Preston,
Okay, thank you.
I’m not adept just yet at dodging or burning as I’m not up to speed with Lightroom…so just manipulating images through my iMac Photos program…as I would like to lighten the foreground [without lightening the icebergs and background sky etc]…not sure I can accomplish this using this rudimentary technique?
Best regards,
Stephen
Stephen, there are folks here who very adept at Lightroom (LR) and I am sure there are video tutorials at Adobe or elsewhere that would address this. I do not use LR and I am on a PC, so I can’t really help here.
This image is worthy of tweaks to help the FG.
-P
Stephen, the light on the iceberg is great! It seems to be lit from within. I also like the two other bergs trailing off into the distance. You can adjust the foreground lighting in parts of all, using LR’s mask tool, check online for details. The Weekly Challenge is for one topic for one week. This post will be covered in next week’s topic, when you might want to post a redone version.
Hi Mark,
Thank you for your comments…I’ll give it a try…so will need to experiment further…
The direct beams of light grazed this Iceberg at just the right time…to reveal the contours on the main face…all caught by chance…
Best regards,
Stephen
