Taken with a polarizer and a 106 ND filter and mirror lockup. I feel very hypocritical submitting this as I have frowned upon people using the same shot or similar shots in different challenges when they are not on the same site since undoubtedly a couple of people will have seen this before and know it´s my shot. I submitted this to an open challenge on the icelandi version of this site, www.ljosmyndakeppni.is, and it did pretty well there. That is not the reason why I am submitting this shot, because I think it will do well but rather that it is my favorite shot in November and the only time I got out during daylight hours to take pictures for myself. The rest of the month I have been at work or doing other stuff during the weekends. I was actually thinking of submitting another shot I just shot right before this with the same exact framing but at 5 seconds and at f8 aperture but the movement of the water wasn´t as nice and I spent about 1 hour editing this so I just didn´t bother.
Cooled down the WB in the raw conversion, curves specifically on the water part to darken it, curves again on the whole image and healing brush to remove a couple of straws that were drawing too much attention and finally sharpened after resizing.
Anyway, hope you like it.
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This by far is my favorite of the challenge. It is a very creative photo and also very beautiful. Thank you for entering it here and feel free to enter everywhere you would like, so that many other may also enjoy it. There is nothing wrong with entering it many places.
This was an incredible shot..I would feel no hypocrisy about entering this in many challenges. Congratulations..it was my top choice for blue; it is brilliant.
Our friends from Iceland :) I still remember your post in the forums. This is beautiful and the colors are fantastic. The silky smooth water is a great contrast against the rough texture of the snow and ice on the rocks. 10!
Amazing shot. I sat here looking at it for a couple minutes trying to think of constructive criticism, but don't have a thing to say. So here's a 9 instead :)
Great title and wonderful picture. I love the smooth water contrasted against the different ice formations, really pulls out some different textures for the shot. Nicely done. <7>
8 - Beautiful. Criticism; not much, maybe some even sharper detail on the snow/ice/texture right at the very fore of the shot, but likely difficult to retain the focus in the other areas, so who knows. Tempted to say I'd like to see less movement in the water, to see more detail, but this effect is very nice as is so who knows. Not sure on the frame, especially the black, perhaps brown (or whatever color is in those rocks) would have enhanced it/complemented it better, not sure.
The hues on this picture are fabulous. The whites and blues come in crisp and clear so much so that I shiver from the cold just gazing upon it. The action of the water as it falls is captured so that it appears as a soft unbroken flow - a downy drift.
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