A pretty interesting phenomena in the geyser field. One of the geysers must be super active in winter, so much so as to form a large iceberg down wind. I was there mid August and it was already starting to collapse - days were getting longer and heating up.
The top of iceberg is about head height and 4 or 5 metres in length. I think the geyser that feeds it is water rather than steam. It was dormant while I was there. The other water geyser that was active had a fringe of ice, but no iceberg. So they must turn on and off throughout the year.
A long term timelapse of the growth and wane of the ice would be pretty cool.
Fantastic shot Colinm,
Any chance of some details on the shot details and processing???
Cheers
Bartman
Bart, nothing too special on the processing side. Just some noise reduction, colour correction, curves, and a bit of saturation. The clarity is probably due the lack of air at 4300m. The moon was around a 1/3, but with less air the sky is darker than you'd normally see at sea level. There was a bit of airglow though.
I think the lens was f/2.8,16mm (Nikon 14-24), and camera (5D2) iso3200, 25 s shutter.
Bart, nothing too special on the processing side. Just some noise reduction, colour correction, curves, and a bit of saturation. The clarity is probably due the lack of air at 4300m. The moon was around a 1/3, but with less air the sky is darker than you'd normally see at sea level. There was a bit of airglow though.
I think the lens was f/2.8,16mm (Nikon 14-24), and camera (5D2) iso3200, 25 s shutter.
Thanks Colin,
the 4300m AMSL probably explains a fair bit. Didn't think of that!
This shot just seems so ......you can touch the berg kinda feeling...
Bartman
How do you make such a beautiful photo out of a chunk of white stuff ...I've got a lot to learn I see ...hopefully an alien space craft will land in one of my paddocks one night and THAT will make the ultimate forground object ...will need to get the illumination right though...so it looks natural
How do you make such a beautiful photo out of a chunk of white stuff ...I've got a lot to learn I see ...hopefully an alien space craft will land in one of my paddocks one night and THAT will make the ultimate forground object ...will need to get the illumination right though...so it looks natural
Mike
You'll post it here first, right? Illumination should be a snap with all those gyrating/flashing lights. Maybe add an ND grad and carefully move it down as it lands.
...I've got a lot to learn I see 
