Diamond Mountain

AlanLichty

AlanLichty

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Not quite what I was expecting from the title but quite appropriate with this image. Is the beach black? The contrast between the ice and the beach really makes this image pop.
 
JimFox

JimFox

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Hey Kyle,

That is really super cool looking! I love that diamond ice there.

I see, I will have to practice my low shooting technique when I finally get over to Iceland. I usually don't shoot from a low perspective but I can see where that is really necessary here.

Jim
 
Kyle Jones

Kyle Jones

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Ben Egbert said:
Outstanding and unique shot.
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Thanks a lot Ben!

AlanLichty said:
Not quite what I was expecting from the title but quite appropriate with this image. Is the beach black? The contrast between the ice and the beach really makes this image pop.
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I'm not very creative with titles, so I'm glad I surprised someone for once. Yes, this is a black sand beach.

JimFox said:
Hey Kyle,

That is really super cool looking! I love that diamond ice there.

I see, I will have to practice my low shooting technique when I finally get over to Iceland. I usually don't shoot from a low perspective but I can see where that is really necessary here.

Jim
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You don't necessarily have to get low - although I needed to in order to get this perspective. When we arrived at the beach a couple of hours before sunrise (also known as "a couple of hours after sunset"), the whole area was covered in fog. I had already resigned myself to shooting the moody "diamond chunks on black sand with retreating waves" shots that I've seen many people share.

Maybe an hour before sunrise I started seeing some color in the sky off in the distance. I figured this might be the only color I saw that morning, so I started looking for ways to put it behind a chunk of ice and try getting that color to shine through. My tripod was pretty much flat on the sand and I was zooming in to fill the frame with both the ice and the color in the sky. I started on the ice chunk below and was so engrossed with playing with compositions I didn't notice that the sky was exploding. At that point I found my "diamond mountain" that was the subject of this post and then I started shooting some wider scenes to take advantage of the light.

 
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