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Freezing
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Copyright: Rikus Truter (trufoto) (96)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-08-16
Categories: Nature
Exposure: f/3.5, 1/100 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-09-09 11:57
Viewed: 183
Points: 0
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
I went through my old photos and came across this one. I took this photo in 2005 with a Canon Powershot in the Baviaans area, South Afica. It was very cold and this tap was leaking during the night and icy stalachtites formed. I thought it was worth sharing with TL friends.

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To rewshearer: Icetrufoto 1 09-10 08:23
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I had no idea that it got cold enough in SA for ice! Thanks for the informative shot and the interesting subject.

Photographically - it's pretty bad. Sorry, no offence intended, and in your absolute defence it's an old shot, long before you received any input into how to take better ones! But a good opportunity to make some observations, and perhaps you could have used some PP work to improve it before posting?

For example - the date stamp! Mortal sin! Clone it or crop it but definitely remove it.

And the composition - the ice is square in the middle of the frame. Terrible place to put your subject! Something off-centre would have far more impact, and would eliminate all the needless, unhelpful space around the edges. It could easily be cropped into a stronger composition.

Re: the original shooting: the POV is very lazy. How about if you crouched down and used the DOF to isolate the ice against a distant, blurred backround? How about if you took the shot from low on the other side - catching the effect of sunlight shining through the ice?

Thank you though for having the guts to share this, and providing a wonderful learning opportunity.

Rew

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