Fire and Ice Photo Tour Results – Royce Howland
Below are Royce Howland’s six favorite photos from the Fire and Ice Photo Tour.
All photographs were taken with a Panasonic LX-5 point & shoot camera at a wide aperture, usually f/2.8. I pressed the camera lens right to the surface of the ice, as close as I could get to the features buried within, and used a small pocket LED flashlight for selective lighting. Each final image was developed with HDR processing (using Oloneo PhotoEngine) from 2 – 3 bracketed exposures, followed by finishing work in Photoshop for additional contrast & color.
©Royce Howland
©Royce Howland
©Royce Howland
©Royce Howland
©Royce Howland
©Royce Howland
Darwin Wiggett 
November 29, 2011 at 6:17 AM
Great photos 🙂
November 29, 2011 at 6:38 AM
Crazy fantastic!!!
November 29, 2011 at 11:19 AM
Such gorgeous art!
November 29, 2011 at 12:06 PM
Amazing!
November 29, 2011 at 1:25 PM
Wild…in a good way. I like them.
November 29, 2011 at 2:02 PM
Thanks for the comments, everyone! I wanted to do something different with the ice here this time around. It was the most fun I’ve had laying flat out on a freezing surface in, oh, forever. The last time I was flat due to ice, I fractured some ribs… 🙂
November 29, 2011 at 2:23 PM
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November 29, 2011 at 7:27 PM
great idea, using the flashlight and getting close to the surface-beautiful images
December 1, 2011 at 7:14 PM
Very interesting images. I like them.
December 1, 2011 at 8:43 PM
Like Darwin, I’m a big believer in carrying around a pocket camera. It can be used much more fluidly in situations that are hard or impossible with a big rig on the tripod. Since my little LX-5 can focus amazingly close to subjects, I also carry a pocket flashlight most of the time for situations when a little extra light can add sparkle.
December 3, 2011 at 7:22 PM
Cool! Literally!! ;^) Nice series!