Icicles in Durham today

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I shot these in bright sunshine on my conservatory today although temperatures remained sub zero.

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Feel free to praise them to the heavens or slag them off.
david

You wanted to desaturate my snow pic, I tried to raise the contrast and deepness of the blue of yours
It is a play of white and blue contrast for me.
But of course matter of taste, as you said

The same with nr 3.

You got me there Aiki. Now I'm feeling blue.
david

I prefer the original to the saturated version. It has a sort of serenity that the latter doesn't have. The ice looks more real, as well.

I agree, looks overcooked when saturation is increased.

I do not like the saturation, I like no.3 the best, but not sure why.

Colin

David's is definitly more natural. For sure
Maybe I have "blue days"

Of the composition I do like also nr 3. The diagonal cloud on the background adds too.

I agree and prefer the third shot think it is because the sky is obviously the sky and not just a blue background.

I agree with Colin and Jackie, the third shot to me looks more balanced and natural.

Thanks for all your comments. The blue in No. 3 is less pronounced because of the angle at which I took the picture, I was looking more towards the sun so the intensity of the blue decreased. The blue in the other pictures, other than Aiki's modification, was natural with no extra saturation added.
I took these pictures on a K10 fitted with a manual focus Pentax A series 50mm 1.7 lens from the days when I had MX and ME super film cameras.

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I went shooting more icicles on my conservatory roof today (Wednesday) and here's one of them. K10+A series 50mm 1.7 manual focus lens.
David

That middle icicle is amazing, looks like it's hanging on by a thread. Impressive shot

Hi David, sorry for crashing in on your thread but I happened to take a couple of snaps of icicles today which were hanging outside my back door. They are nowhere near as good as yours (which are fab by the way), but I like to get feedback anyway.

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Both were taken using a Tamron 70-300mm on my K-m.

Ta

Andrew