Ice Flows at Sleeping Bear.

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

I shot this today on my way to the DMV to get commercial plates for my trucks. I thought with a north wind white winged scooters might show up like last year. It was 3 degrees with a 25 miles hour wind and blew ice into West Platte Bay of the Sleeping Bear National Park.

Also I saw in New York they had snow owls along the beach and gave that a shot as they have seen one a couple miles from there but no luck on either one. **** it was cold with that wind blowing and you could see 8 footers at the horizon line hitting the ice.

Canon 1D Mk2, Canon 70-200 2.8 IS , f/18@1/30, -1/3 EV, ISO 100, AV mode, tripod with rrs-55 head.

[Robert Amoruso]

Curly,

I tried some different crops and think a pano version with the top cropped to just about the mountain a good bet. I wish you had something on the right to balance the two heavy elements on the left (sand dune and mountain).

I like the white strip of snow you included on the bottom. It could use some more sharpening.

[John Blumenkamp]

I like your comp and perspective on this one... looks pretty cold! I agree with Robert that it looks like it could be sharper.

[Tom Dolezal]

Like the low perspective you have used here and the interplay of textures between the sand and the snow.

As already mentioned image could do with some sharpening. I would be inclined to crop off about half of that sky to get more of a pano look. imo the sky distracts from the fg and mg detail and reducing the sky would reduce that distraction.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Curly,
Another one who likes the comp...but the others are correct on the sharpness. If you could tweak out some more depth/definition in the sky......I would leave it as presented.....if not.....then go with the tighter crop. Would love to see a re-post of sharper version if it works!

[Paul Marcellini]

You got some great advice. As far as web presentation, I use a simple sharpen technique that really works well. You size it to just under double your final size. I do 1300px for final 720. Then hit the simple sharpen filter. Maybe twice, then resize. This forces photoshop to sharpen the finest details and it doesn't increase file size much.

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

Here is it sharpened more, but I had a sign in front of me that I took out that I think the af locked on so the image is not sharp.

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

Here is from same spot different lens

Canon 1D Mk2, Canon 24-105 IS , 1/50@f/16, 0 EV, ISO 100, AV mode, tripod with rrs-55 head.