After how poorly I did in the Surprise challenged, I decided to sit this one out as well.
I would have probably have ranked this shot my favorite out of all that were submitted for the challenge. Especially mine. Mine sucks! Seriously! LOL :-)
Soup - I like the third one over best composition-wise
The branch on the right frames the subject and anchors it too.
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I like the clarity of the first one you posted -It feels so cold, yet the smoothness of the ice lets you know its meling. The blue light feels like early morning - could you do one where it was the last one's crop with the first one's color?
When I fist saw the thumbnail I thought it was a picture of chickadees on a branch.
Where is VT do you hail from? My folks have a place in Starksboro. Was pretty warm there this Thanksgiving,
the soft melt on the ice was take on soft focus not really the right technique - but was a busy week...
just moved from st albans, down to essex
bought a house - good deal
was a wonderful weather day thanksgiving day, and most of november if you ask me ;}
I played around with the shot a bit more this evening and came up with this variation. I converted to B&W, and cropped in a bit closer.
Do you like the original crop or the close-in crop?
Do you like the color version or the B&W version?
Thanks for any comments!
I like so many of the color version, but the crop close-in is more interesting! The softness are more sensible in color and the shallow DOF background are more atractive and rings are more eye-rising, although not distrating.
Great!
Love the contrast between the melting ice and the raspberry prickles.
Congrats on the new house!
Any of that don´t apear to be soft focused to me. I can see many high details tipical of sharp focus. The BW gives some softness dispersing color contrasts but it apear to be very sharp to consider a soft focus.
