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Title: 15 below zero
Post by: Andy_Sorensen on January 30, 2008, 05:24:22 AM
Our church had a winter fun day last saturday.  I agreed to build an igloo at the event and then of course, sleep in it.  But before crawling in the bag, I managed to squeak out a few photos from my camera whose batteries were dying from the cold.  It was 15 below zero at the time of this photo.  Taken at ISO 800 with a 30 second exposure, there was significant digital noise in the sky, but was successfully able to counteract that with a Photoshop plugin called Dfine by nik software.  Worked like a charm.  Anyway, here's the igloo, which was built on a frozen lake in southcentral Alaska.  The lake is called Beach Lake, so I guess you could call this photo an Alaskan January day at the beach!   
:idiot: ;) ;D

(https://www.christianphotographers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs89935178.onlinehome.us%2FForumPics%2FPC%2FIgloo.jpg&hash=c8b4cf189f5540dea8fd86f71e69c163d450c717)

The igloo is glowing from the light of a lantern inside.

Title: Re: 15 below zero
Post by: Marilyn on January 30, 2008, 09:32:22 AM
Wow that is so awesome.
Title: Re: 15 below zero
Post by: Al Moak on January 30, 2008, 09:51:22 AM
That's absolutely fabulous!  And to think that it was taken at the beach!  I guess the long exposure was exactly the thing!
Title: Re: 15 below zero
Post by: SmokeytheDog on February 02, 2008, 05:04:15 AM
Looks like an alien growth on the surface of the moon!
Title: Re: 15 below zero
Post by: Pat on February 02, 2008, 12:19:24 PM
My goodness, Andy!  What an awesome capture! 
Title: Re: 15 below zero
Post by: Summicron on February 02, 2008, 05:50:39 PM
The whatever it is in the background, possibly the sea makes this look otherworldly like the center of a crater on the moon, I once came across an igloo on top of Ben Nevice in Scotland one Christmas, cut from blocks of snow, the snow was 12 ft thick up there.
Title: Re: 15 below zero
Post by: Janet on February 02, 2008, 06:53:46 PM
That's lovely!  And I knew instantly what it was!  I wouldn't have had the knowledge to get such a good photo of it, though.  Congratulations!
Title: Re: 15 below zero
Post by: Ruth Ann Bice on February 02, 2008, 08:49:58 PM
Soooo beautiful.
Title: Re: 15 below zero
Post by: Gord Brown on February 02, 2008, 11:49:48 PM
 :)  Unbelievable picture and such a view behind the Iglo :coffee:
Title: Re: 15 below zero
Post by: Larry Hanna on February 03, 2008, 09:20:23 AM
My initial reaction was lava cooling.  Very nice and different.
Title: Re: 15 below zero
Post by: Etta Sue on February 03, 2008, 12:51:25 PM
Better you than me sleeping in your igloo!!   :idiot: I like a warm comfy bed.  You did a great job building and capturing your igloo on film!