A block of ice with an eerie blue glow stranded in the grey Atlantic surf near the Jokulsarlon glacial lagoon in Iceland. Shot at f/1.8 and 1 sec with an 85mm prime and a ten-stop ND filter. Looks best large and on the dark background.
See the first image in this series.
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Nancy Paiva
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Comments
shooter
Stunning
2012-07-05
Frida
Wow this is stunning.
2012-07-05
Nataya
cool, cold, ice, you can perfectly capture the ice
2012-07-05
Matt B
Lovely.
But I need some perspective here: how big is this? a few inches? a foot? 5 feet tall?
2012-07-05
Miles
It's not huge, about two feet high. The ice blocks that wash ashore here have washed out of the lagoon into the ocean where they're battered in the surf for a while. There are some sizable chunks, maybe the size of small cars, but most are like this or smaller.
The ones that have been eroded down to their centres, like this one, have this pure blue glow to them. I like to think it's because the ice there has been ice for centuries or longer :)
2012-07-05
Françoise
really really surprising! the scene seems surreal and the color is stunning!
2012-07-06
Frank
This is superb. Loved the first image too but the blue glow here is just amazing. I thought it was selective colour for a bit...
2012-07-06
tom
Really amazing. I like how the blue ice block contrast with the color of the water.
2012-07-06
Matt B
Thanks for explanation Miles. It's amazing to think this ice was around for Napolean or the War of 1812.
2012-07-07
Randy
I love the mood of this image. Also this series is outstanding. Could you let me know what brand/type of 10 stop ND filter are you using? Thanks you.
2012-07-07
Miles
Matt, everything about Iceland's landscape feels old, like the millennia old ice floating by in Jökulsárlón, but it's the youngest country in the world in geological terms. So many wonderful contradictions!
Randy, sure, it's the b+w brand. It's a nice piece of glass but, like all strong ND filters, it has a colour-cast in long exposures. This one has a warm/orange cast that isn't ideally for icy scenes but can be compensated for. These ice-in-the-surf shots are fairly short exposures of a second or two and aren't effected.
2012-07-07
Randy
Thank you for the info. Miles. I had bought a low cost 10 stop ND filter to test, but as you stated there was alot of color shifting and cast. I was unaware of this occurrence before now.
2012-07-08
minimodi
damn thats cool! large on dark did the trick.
2012-07-16