Housecicles
March 3rd, 2009 by admin
I’m hoping that by posting these photos, the cold weather will take its leave for the season.
It was actually quite funny – I was standing in front of Chip’s house trying to take artsy photos of the massive icicles that hung from the gutters. It was ABSURDLY cold out, and no matter what I did, my camera wouldn’t take the shots I wanted. At first I thought it was the time of day – too much light, not enough light, shooting into the sun – something. I played with the manual focus, auto focus, white balance, f-stop, whatever. No matter what I did, the shot wouldn’t snap until I was just about fed up with standing there pressing the button.
Figure it out yet? Yeah. The self-timer was on. Therefore, if any of these shots are even remotely good, it is purely by accident.
(I recommend clicking on them to zoom in – the detail in the ice is kind of cool)
Jennifer wrote on 03/3/09 at 7:55 pm :
Wasn’t that ice crazy?? Your pictures turned out good–I couldn’t get my ice ones to turn out but it was user error rather than a self timer issue
admin wrote on 03/3/09 at 8:59 pm :
The one I was really disappointed in was the trees – they looked SO cool sheathed in ice, and they made music when the wind blew, but it didn’t really translate to digital.