Antique Whiskers
by LucidLotus

Comment by corachaos:
Interesting to see the dust and cob webs, color would have been nice.

Melt
by LucidLotus

Comment by Frankie_Lv:
Hi LucidLotus,
Marvelous idea with ice. What one can do with a little imagination very nice. A little more DOF would have brought you a more balanced focus though the entire photo. Seems to be a touch under exposed but then again you might have blown out the top cubes a tuff call there. Nice use of lighting. Try using a card board box about 24 to 36" away using a slave and bounce the flash off the inside of the box. The box would soften the light and give you a nice soft balance thro-out the photo including the bottom. You would have to experiment with the flash settings but I think you would be pleasently suprized. You may even get a little twinkle from a few of the cubes. Over all a very nice job of a not so easy subject. Cubes from the freezer tend to have air bubbles and freeze in irregular patterns presenting a whole different set of problems from there buddies outdoors. Well done.

Melt
by LucidLotus

Comment by sfalice:
This is a lovely, nicely balanced ice sculpture. The water at the bottom could be read as a metal base.

Melt
by LucidLotus

Comment by Koriyama:
In your comments, you say that getting a nice, sharp, even focus was difficult. I think that the reason for this was that you used f2.0, one of the widest stops possible.

If you had used a narrower stop, like f5.6 or so, more of the shot would have been in clearer focus. What I do when I absolutely need the shot to be in focus is to use my narrowest stop (f9.5). But experience tells me that for a 5-10 cm object f5.6 is enough. You need to experiment.

Melt
by LucidLotus

Comment by MrAkamai:
When I first saw the thumbnail, I thought these were birds flying out of the water but now when I see the full image and I can see that they are, in fact, ice cubes. Very imaginative!

Melt
by LucidLotus

Comment by pcody:
Is it supposed to look like a dog leaning backwards and wearing jeans? Good idea.

Melt
by LucidLotus

Comment by Koriyama:
With a touch more brightness, this would be a sparkler. Nice arrangement and nice idea. 7

Melt
by LucidLotus

Comment by cbeller:
Nice take on the challenge. The crease and hot spot on the top right is a little distracting.

Melt
by LucidLotus

Comment by nborton:
nice use of lighting. a greater depth of field would help increase the overall focus and bring the closes melted blob into focus as well.

Melt
by LucidLotus

Comment by cardinalmom:
It almost looks like a plant in the thumb nail... very nice photo!