124 Frozen Photos of Ice

We carve it , shave it , skate on it , and drop it in our tea . It ’s ice . And while winter can grate on you by January , this week’sShooting Challengeoffers us 124 reminder of the beauty of cold .

Lead Shot – Technicolor

The ice and snow in Brussels had already disappeared two weeks ago , so I had to do it with the ice rink available in my fridge . alas , this did n’t really show nice patterns and my soar was not effective enough to focus on a small-scale part of it . I decide to try the tricks from locoweed picture taking . I inverted the image and played around with different gloss . This is the result ! Canon 450D with Sigma 17 - 70 , ISO 200 , f/7.1 , 1/125s

-Jan De Decker

Frozen Satchel

My neighbors must think I ’m lose it , laying in the Gunter Grass take ikon of frost . canyon 50D with Canon 100 mm Macro lens , full set of Kenko pro metro and sigma macro pack heartbeat . 1/60 sec , f/16 .

– Chris Andrews

Orchid

Hey there ! I ’m Daniel , I ’m from Germany and I ’m 19 twelvemonth previous . I got my Canon 550D ( respectively Canon Digital Rebel T2i ) for Christmas and I was eagerly wait the first shooting challenge on Gizmodo . So when I read ‘ glass ’ I was pretty worked up since it used to be really cold outside . But when I had at long last time to shoot the temperatures move up from -12 ° C ( 10.4 ° F ) to 7 ° C ( 44.6 ° F ) and all the glass was melt down :/ But since the shot challenge said artificial ice was appropriate I had an idea . I did n’t want the video to be just plain mordant and bloodless , I wanted it to have some interesting colors in it . So I decided to take an orchidaceous plant , put it into water and freeze the whole thing . It turn out to be a superb estimate . I really like the shots I suffer particularly because I grease one’s palms myself this retro tintinnabulation so I can mount the electron lens the otherway round to the body so as to make brainy macro - shots . It was rather unmanageable to focus because I do n’t have a tripod yet and the depth of field of honor in retro position is awful . The characterization provided is one of the best I got where the ice really looks like ice . Equipment used : Canon 550D , EF - S 18 - 55 mm in retro position ; ISO 100 , F11 , 1/125s , internal flash and RAW . RAW processing done in Photoshop .

-Daniel Lechner

Icefalls

Went out with some protagonist to the local waterfall , and while I got a few shots in , I was plain myself for leave the house without my tripod , but oh well . After some more hiking , stumble across a monolithic rock formation where I learn a whole ingathering of huge icicle formed , . I love I want to get down there , but being about forty foot down and no rope / rock’n’roll climb gear , I was a bit stuck , but I stag a cave and track where the other remainder lease out , test out the ice ( since the whole rock shaping end up having its own organic structure of water , and went on through the cave ( much to my friends figuring I was choke to fall through some ice . rather , got the touch I wanted , and everyone was pumped to get some cool photos . Pays to be intrepid with a television camera in hand . Also , it pay to wear upon two pairs of gloves when dealing with national like this . Nikon D7000 , 35 mm f1.8 DX , ISO 250 , f/2.0 .

– Marc Wrzesinski

Paper Plate

I took a paper home base and put some water in it , and then allow it freeze down outside overnight . It did n’t in full freeze down , and the part of the back fell away go forth an interesting invention . I then held that up in front of the visible light on my christmas tree diagram , fundamentally using the frappe as a filter over the electron lens , and this is the result . Canon T2i , 30 mm , f4.5 , ISO 1600 , 1/40 sec .

-Donovan Myers

Fire and Ice

Here in Denmark we are having a really cold winter and the fjord which i survive nigh to have been frozen , but warm conditions and alot of wind produce these 2 - 3 m gamey ice structures . I reckon the sun got some nice demarcation in the aspect . Shot with an Olympus E-620 stock kit - lens 14 - 42 mm , did a bit of contrast sweetening in photoshop . Iso 100 , F3.5 , 1/800 .

-Nichi Tonsberg

Coldwheels

I freeze a Hotwheels car in a chunk of ice , put the big ice chunk on my drinking glass top table ( cautiously ) and this is what came out . Shot on T2i 18 - 55 millimeter f/22 ISO-1600 .

-Dustin Gillis

Drop

I just corrupt myself the biggest Nikon flash ( Sb900 ) and now i have to try out it ! The ideer was to make a pic for my pal , for Christmas . Fortunately , I went outside to my balcony and i regain what you see ! It ’s hang from my gutter and it ’s a bit gay outside , so the sparkler is melting a morsel ( ground for the dip ) . I used a Nikon D3000 with a Tamron 70 - 300 F/4 - 5.6 AF Di LD . and my Sb900 flash . The options were 1/200 , F/36 , and the flash were on full power , and pointed instantly at the water ice .

-Chris Rosenkjær

Fields of Ice

I had not contrive to enter the pic competion this week as I did not have a macro lens and we had many mild mornings . However on Sunday I was out with a very crisp morning and sprout this with HTC Desire phone . The HTC photographic camera does not have a bang-up amount of control however hold at the right-hand length aside from this old house trailer tyre in the corner of a farmers field as the sun occur up gave this dawn shot .

– John Kilmister

This Is Ice??

charge and charge on macro - soar urge up against a lupe magnifying chicken feed with a piece of ice off a small puddle in the drive . Side - lit with an LED flashlight and all placed on a piece of colored composition board . A little level and chroma adjustments in PS . Strangely enough , out of the 30 or so that I took , none come out a clear as this one with most being too blury or fuzzy – somehow this one wangle to focus just in good order as I was about to give up and essay another camera or proficiency . – Mü

Ice for Sale

So , I expend three 60 minutes lying on the earth in the middle on the night frivol away a brainsick HDR , focus stacked pic of some ice crystals . That ’s 198 individual exposure , if you ’re interested . It may be a bit of overkill , but I never tried focus stack before , and the scene had some insane active cooking stove . Anyway , then I spotted this as I barricade at a gas post , and it was just too perfect . The only affair that could have made it well would be if the internal-combustion engine man was really there replenish the ice box . I ’ll countenance you know how the other one come up out whenever Photoshop finish up processing … Nikon D300 , Nikon 18 - 200 mm lens , 1/125 s , f/10 , ISO 200

-Alfred Barnat

Ice Filter

Well , this picture is less “ of ” ice-skating rink and more “ through ” shabu . I reckon there ’d be a bevy of incredible macro jibe , and since I ca n’t contend in that arena I decided to try something different – I made a electron lens filter out of ice . I knew if I just dumped some tap water system into the filter that the result water ice would be milklike and opaque , so I did some Internetting and disclose that the good way to get crystal vindicated ice is to distil and moil the body of water before freezing ( mixologist take government note ) . Once I had the purified water , I dropped just enough into a generic UV filter to treat the drinking glass and set it in the freezer . When the piddle was frozen I just screw the filter onto the lens as usual and get down shooting . The result lens - flare - take pic is of the sunlight rising outside my front threshold . And I ’ve also attached a motion picture of the icy filter itself . Canon 50D & Canon 2.8L 16 - 35 mm w/ IceFilter ™ ISO-200 f/8 1/1250 .

– Adam Bailey

A Water Balloon In Winter

The thought of shooting internal-combustion engine seemed a bit uninteresting at first since meth photographs tend to be mostly monochromous . With this in mind , my main destination became about feel a path to incorporate colour with ice . As luck would have it I was capable to chance a water balloon container with some icy abridgment in it , add the explosion of color I was looking for ! Nikon D70s , Tamron 28.0 - 75.0 mm , ISO 200 , f/2.8 .

-Gabielle Bakanec

Winner – Ice Planet

Photo of a sparkler pulley , alight by single go torch . Nikon D7000 with Tokina AT - X M100 PRO D , 4s , f22 , ISO 100 , 100 mm .

-Petri Damstén

Incredible entries this week — a liberal thanks to all our participants ! As always , the full - size of it image are usable on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodo/sets/72157625801756228/ . We ’ve also post the two gallery below .

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