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Published: 2006-12-05 23:08:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 1530; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 0
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You can call me a smartarse for putting this in waterscapes - but it does say the water can be flowing or standing, so I'm going to assume that frozen counts too.I'd really like some constructive feedback on this piece. Since the pic needs to be fairly high-contrast in order to stand out, I thought about doing some very mild manipulation - I've touched up the existing image very little. Any tips from the really great photographers out there at all?
For anybody interested in the shot, it was taken under the Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand, and the tunnel here was big enough to crawl through. I just loved the way the ice darkened towards the centre of the tunnel, and the way the folding sheets of ice to the sides gives the picture an abstract feel. Hope you like it!
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Thanks for this! Sorry I didn't reply sooner (but hey, only three months!)
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Thanks 
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This is quite the pic. It's a shame the DA watermark was placed in such a way as to create image confusion.
BUT! It is a stunning photo
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I know - it'd be nice if I could move the watermark to a different part of the image. I just like knowing that my work is more secure this way!
Thanks though - I'm glad you like it
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This is really amazing, Again, the choice of deviant art watermark is slightly annoying, as it covers the centre of your picture, where your main subject is.
I really like the piece, I think it really stands out!
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An amazing shot, and almost a piece of abstract art in itself! Not a sight many of us will see in person, for sure.
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Hey, cheers
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You chose the perfect example - I love it
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Wow! very nice! all the attention are focused on the middle of the picture! nice work!
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Wow! very nice! all the attention are focused on the middle of the picture! nice work!
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Wow! very nice! all the attention are focused on the middle of the picture! nice work!
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wow its a very interesting perspective took me a few seconds to realise what it was 
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Thanks very much! Glad you like it
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This is an interesting shot, the cave looks so unusual I've never seen ice make the effect before.
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I think it's great the way it is, took me the longest time to see the image for what it was. I stared at it for a while because I couldn't figure it out, then read a bit of the description, saw that it was ice, stared at it some more, then had to read the rest to see that it was a tunnel, lol. (It sort of looked like some surface ice on a slow moving river that had been broken and foam had built up in the hole? Vaguely, anyway.)
To get to the point, very cool shot, I love the colours and perspective.
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I'm glad you like the shot - as far as I know, the tunnels on glaciers are formed by water flowing through cracks and wearing away enough. From what I remember, I got pretty soaked by dripping water trying to get the shot just right.
Thanks a bunch for the comment - always appreciated!
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The things we do for a good photo!
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hm. its just that million of people is watching thins image with different monitors, im my pc for instance i would like to see it with a little less contrast, as a guy pointed out, on the snow area, look a little burned, its a very nice photo, geometry and flow of liquid water
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That's a very fair point actually - I didn't think about the other monitors people might be viewing this on. The area at the back is actually an ice wall with the sun on it, so that's why it's so bright. But I'll have a re-evaluation of the picture and see if changing the contrast improves things. Thanks again!
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well... you had me stumped for a good three minutes.
seriously
i thought at first this was some dodgy reflective manipulation of charlottes outline or something..
and then I had the seemingly ever popular reaction 'oh its a ROSE'... and then I read the description and apparently its water frozen in some weird shape and then I thought you must have manipulated one bit to have the white holey thing in the middle... and then i realised it was a photograph and was like 'you're shitting me!'
you're awesome man.
though next time dont be so confusing. it hurt me man.
hum.
maaaan.
hehehehe.
i would lower the contrast on this one. at least the alt colour is blue, thats pretty enough, but, too white! its a shocker. gasp, ice? never!!!
always.
man.
peace.
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A dodgy reflective manipulation? I don't do manipulations, you know that!
I'm honestly surprised at the number of people who weren't quite clear on what this was - I mean, I have called it Tunnel Vision and said where it was taken in the description! I'm kinda glad though - it's nice to play with photography a bit too.
The white hole in the centre is the other end of the tunnel, and it actually opened straight out on a big wall of ice that was directly catching the sun, which is why it's such an intense white. I quite like the fact that it's almost too bright though - it gives the tunnel a sense of placelessness, I think.
By the way - the tunnel was big enough to crawl through, if you want a sense of scale 
Glad you like it!
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Ooo, nicely seen and captured! It looks very cold - have you used a blue filter on this?
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hahaha
you love your filters aye! tbh I didnt know you could put filters on photographs other than in a darkroom until you asked me if i'd put one on one of mine 
hummm
i misssss you
lets comment whore on danny boy's photograph. he loves comment whores. hahahaha 
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hahaha aaaww 
Sigh, miss you too
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hahaha he'll kill me!!
... maybe
then again
i've got a mallet at the ready all the time now
sure I could fight back!!!
sigh
miss yooooooooou *swoony pathetic sloppiness*
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Hahaha I take full responsibility for the commentwhoring!!
Sigh, I miss you too. And you wouldn't fight back, would you
*swoony infatuatedness*
I love you xxx
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awwwww
never fight you
i miss you so much baby
sigh sigh sigh
soon ne?
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Sigh
Could never fight you either...
You'd just win
I miss you too love, despite that uve only been gone about an hour
le sigh
Soon...
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*kisses gently* oh baby
so so sweet
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*kisses gently back*
Well, you were born. Does that count?
It better.
Because its just coz of who you are...
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sighhh
oh god love..
again, you're so so sweet
i love it well xxx thank you
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By sweet, do you mean lame?
Hahaha yay! I like senile old women
...did I say that out loud?
Hohum.
And I'm just honest with you sweetie
I love you xxx
(Do you think Dan is sick of us yet?)
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i think dan mightnt know yet
or he might
i dont know
and who said old????
im young and senile
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Hahaha well he's in for a shock!!
And wheee haha, young and senile is even better!
Do you remember Vietnam?
I do. Me and George Clooney killed 50 kongs each!!
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lol
couldve sworn you'd said 50 songs each just then...
im a dag
hey have you heard stans ascent yet properly?
i swear i am in love with this song
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Hahaha, eh? yes you are. Oh well.
I think i heard it, yeah...im not sure lol
if its what im thinking of, i loved it ^^
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mm i'll have to download it for you soon haha
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No filter
Ran Paint Shop's clarify function on it, but that's pretty much the only change I've made to it post-shot.
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aaah cool! Nicely done then ^^
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when i first saw it was thinking what it was, then i realized ice, i like it, there just a rose like look, but also it seems... i dunno, it just wouldn't catch my eye in the passer by view, i dont know if its just my eyes, it doesnt seem like the quality of the rest of your art, hope i didnt hurt your feelings u said u wanted critic.... =-\
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I did - albeit something more constructive than "it doesn't seem like the quality of the rest"
I wanted to people to wonder what it was - that was sort of the point! I know you like your landscapes, and I realise this isn't one of them, but I was trying to go for a piece that was a little more abstract and not quite the same as all my other work; if you constantly work by the same formula things'll get boring!
Cheers for the comment though - always appreciated.
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true, touche!! i do like it tho
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I think it is great and well placed in the waterscapes. Looks great, I love where you were to capture this.
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