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Re: [OM] Film for photographing icebergs

Subject: Re: [OM] Film for photographing icebergs
From: Andrew Beals <bandy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:18:27 -0800
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:39:19 +0000, Roger Wesson <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> Are you intending to shoot any monochrome?  On the only occasion so far
> that I've photographed icebergs, in Iceland (appropriately enough), I
> found that the heavy skies and dim light left me with fairly
> unremarkable colour efforts, but with some Ilford XP-2 I got some shots
> I was much more satisfied with.  Example here (with digital toning done
> after the scan):
> 
> http://www.worldtraveller.f9.co.uk/photo/photos/jokulsarlon.jpg

Woof.  That is one gorgeous photo.

Someone else suggested a yellow filter.  My favorite filter is a polarizer - it 
lets me tweak the reflectivity of the water and the sky's color before I expose 
the CCD.  

        andy


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