Waking Up To An Ice Storm

Posted on February 22, 2021

The other morning we woke up to an overnight ice storm. Sidewalks and paths were covered with ice. But with the sun coming up, the trees were glistening with the ice. I took a series of images out my back door with my iPhone. Since I could not walk out there I was using the iPhone 11 Pro with the 6mm lens (full Frame Camera Equivalent of 52mm) but added different amounts of Digital Zoom with the iPhone. Also most are multi-image panoramas to get the composition I wanted. When adjusting the iPhone files in Adobe Camera Raw I could see what amounts of digital zoom I was using. Camera Raw also gives me the combination of 6mm iPhone lens with the in phone digital zoom amounts in comparable Field of View of a Full Frame Camera Equivalent Focal Length. So the Featured image is 3 images, shot with the 6mm iP11 lens with 401% Digital Zoom for a final Digital Focal length of 207mm. Just thought it was interesting for comparison to a Full Frame Camera.

ICE Storm, iP11 Pro, 6mm lens, 199% digital zoom, Full Frame Field of View ~ 103mm

ICE STORM, iP11 Pro, 6mm lens, 2 img pano & blend, No Digital Zoom, Full Frame Field of View – 52mm

Ice Storm, iP11 Pro, 3 image pano, 6mm lens, digital zoom 204%, 105mm Full Frame Field of View

IceStorm, 4img pano, iP11 Pro, 6mm lens, 249% digital zoom, 129mm Full Frame Equivalent Field of View

Category: Blog, Favorite Locations, iPhone, iPhone photography, Nature Still Lifes, Rossmoor, Skyscapes & Clouds, yard & pond Tagged: backlit Ice, ice, ice patterns, ice storm, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone photography, iPhone with digital zoom added, Sky & trees Reflecting in water, Trees in Winter, trees laden with ice

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Bird Pattern In Ice

Posted on March 12, 2020

I am cleaning up some of my old backup drives, eliminating duplicate files and just generally deleting unnecessary files. And in the process, I also found interesting files to post here. I liked ice images I recently saw on Stephen Gingold Nature Photography Blog. I found a series of ice images from about 10+ years ago. So I thought I would post some here. The featured image was a 2 shot pano captured with a Canon 70-300mm DO lens @ 300mm, aligned & blended in Photoshop. Also the featured image was photographed in early morning cooler light. It reminded me of a Bird with the beak to the left.