-- Barbara Kelly (kellys@alaska.net), November 02, 1998

Answers

I love this shot. Taking this photo in B&W was the clincher. Great eye, great photo.

-- David Whalen (whalen@circle.net), November 02, 1998.

Barbara, You have produced a very artistic shot of a very over photographed glacier. I photographed this glacier myself this summer and failed to come near what you have done.

-- Paul Di Biase (Paulcanada@hotmail.com), November 02, 1998.

Great Job, Barbara. I have to say that you have shown that it takes more than just great scenery to make a great photograph. Ikeda and Ilford, I presume?

-- Jim Korczak (korczaks@ptdprolog.net), November 02, 1998.

Really nice! Did you use a red filter to get the sky so dark? The glacier really sparkles!

-- (andreas@physio.unr.edu), November 03, 1998.

Very nice indeed.

-- Shun Cheung (shun@worldnet.att.net), November 03, 1998.

Thank you all for your comments. This was made with my Ikeda 4x5 using Ilford FP4 film. The dark area behind the glacier is not the sky it is a mountain. You can see its reflection in the water. I exposed the negative for holding detail in the glacier, letting the mountain go dark. I did not use a filter. I did darken the entire image a bit in Paint Shop Pro before posting it here.

-- Barbara Kelly (kellys@alaska.net), November 03, 1998.

The lighting of the glacier, the contrasting background, and the reflection, are strong points of this image. I'm not sure about the dark grey ice in the foreground. Is this what it looks like? If so, I would bet that the print shows texture that makes it look interesting. I think web images in general lack the ability to display subtle but important features. This seems to be especially true for medium and large format black and white.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), November 04, 1998.

Wonderful image. I congratulate you for choosing to render it in B&W, your insight is well rewarded. Also, the liberal use of the foreground as a composition element works well here.

I wonder, what time of day was the image made?

-- Steve Romney (wallace@xmission.com), November 04, 1998.

There was originally more grey ice in the foreground than you see in this photograph. I cropped a good portion of it out as I didn't feel it added anything to the image. The one thing I like about what I left in is the triangular shapes that make kind of a zigzag pattern.

The print does show more texture and detail in the ice. I agree that something is lost in the translation when looking at an image on a monitor screen. Especially when you think of how much information you have to eliminate to get a medium format or 4x5 image down to 50k.

This photograph was made in the spring, sometime toward late afternoon as I remember.

-- Barbara Kelly (kellys@alaska.net), November 07, 1998.