Icy on Pomton Lake.

[Hui Song]

Shot these ice pictures on Pomton Lake on a foggy morning two weeks ago. The original Raw fills are pretty plain. I was not sure how to handle the PS at beginning. Finally, decided to dramatically increase the clarity, vibrance, saturation and sharpness to show the vivid texture of the ice. I am OK with the final result, but not extremely excited about them. Want to see other CiC member's opinion. Hopefully, I can get better idea how to shoot icy landscape next time.

#1



#2



#3


#4


#5


#6

[Shadowman]

Interesting look in the first three, but like composition of 4th and 5th.

[Nancy Moran G]

Brrrr, I feel cold just looking! Very nice!
I like 4 as there is something about that golden leaf in bottom left that intrigues me. Like it was caught
'Still golden' , by this massive ice storm.
Nancy

[GeorgeM]

#s 3, 4, & 5 for me. Nice job!!

[IzzieK]

How do I critic someone is who takes better and outstanding photo than me in this instance...??? Anyway, these are just some thoughts...

#1 is intriguing. Maybe you should have shot the bird at the distance instead...Were there two birds there?
#3 need a litte crop from the bottom.
#4 is such a lovely composition...I feel cold just looking at it.
The same with#5 -- love the driftwood caught in the ice...
#6 is pretty much the same with #4...

How did I do?

[Kaye Leggett]

I like the processing. It would work on some macro imags of those leaves and shards of ice too if you get another chance to go shooting. Be pleased with them.....

[Wavelength]

Excellent images; such things i can see only in images and movies

[IzzieK]

Nandakumar...for photographing, it is a yes-yes...if these snows and ice lands on your driveway and you have to shovel it off so you can get your car out to go somewhere...it is a no-no. Leave the snow to the Canadians

Excellent images; such things i can see only in images and movies

[Hui Song]

Thanks John, Nacy, George, Isabel, Kaye and Kerala for your opinion. They are really helpful.

It seams #4 and 5 is OK for every one. Obviously, there is problem with first 3. After check every body's opinion, I realize the problem is that the point of interesting of all these three picture is not clear. I corp them again. There are not my original idea when I shot these picture, But I am sure the new version are what you really want to get from the picture. Like Colin told me in another thread: "Don't be afraid to experiment with different crops though". I am pretty satisfy the new version #1 and #3. How do you guy think?


#1 new: Cut the bottom part. Put the duck at the intersection of 2 1/3 lines to make it as point of interesting.



#3 New: Cut the top part. Put the yellow leaf at the intersection of 2 1/3 lines to make it as point of interesting.

[Hui Song]

#1 is intriguing. Maybe you should have shot the bird at the distance instead...Were there two birds there?

Thanks for your analyze! There were two duck in #1. I did shoot the picture of them. You can find it in my new thread: Birds on Icy Lake.

[bnnrcn]

#1 looks better,If I were you I wouldn't touch #3 because the untouched composition is better..They are very nice images overall:-)