A Lamp Post in the Snow

A Lamp Post in the Snow

Out again this evening, sky was nice, although a bit too clear for my tastes but you can’t have everything. I got this wintery lamp post as it reminded me of the one from the lion the witch and the wardrobe. I was reading about Ansel Adams again and so my processing veered towards black and white, if anyone knows how he managed to get shots like his it would be a great help, they didn’t have photoshop in the 30’s either! I loved the texture of the snow on the wall, processing it was a little tricky as I didn’t want the sky too dark as to merge with the top of the lamp post.

I’m also posting the obligatory tree shot, I liked how the shadow acted as a lead into the sun, although I was concious of the fact that I had taken a very similar tree in snow shot last year but I guess no two trees are identical. I couldn’t change a lot compositionally as I became aware that I was on a frozen pond or ditch, I don’t think it was too deep but didn’t want to hang around to find out. Both of these were taken with my 24-70 lens (now I have an adapter ring for it, yay!) at ISO100, f/16 at around 1/15

A Winter Tree