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
Stephen: Marvelous subject and the light is indeed really nice. I did a simple shadows adjustment in PS to bring out some of the FG details and then cropped from the bottom and left as the full frame image made the FG too prominent and in competition with the iceberg.
On a separate note site guidelines recommend posting images 2000 pixels on the long side. I’ve found that posting full size or very large images often results in some site generated changes that you might not want. Good to have you on NPN and looking forward to more of your work.>=))>
Hi Bill,
Thank you for your comments and revised image…it looks much better in both foreground hue and cropped composition.
I haven’t had time to experiment myself just yet…in the middle of a small building project.
I send another image I wish to work on…this from Fogo Island [with iceberg in distance mirroring the white peak of the fishing cottage + fences in foreground that parcel Root Gardens & Cold Storage Root Cellars [berms on ground], typical of the Village of Tilting where this is taken.
Also, an image here from this weekend, as our Town of Perth holds an annual Kilt Run…it was ‘Hotter than Hades’ so the run was held in the evening with overcast skies. Slight panning here f2.8 wide open at 1/30sec. on ISO 100 on auto focus.
A number of years back we broke the Guiness World Record for greatest number of people wearing a kilt and running or walking 8K. It’s a huge event here and always fun. It was recorded by Guiness as 3,670 people wearing kilts of all tartans on June 25th 2016.
Best regards,
Stephen J.
