Shooting Puddles

I’ve mentioned before on this blog about photographers needing to know when changes occur in the  environment so that they are in the right place to take advantage of shooting opportunities.

Last week I used my snow shovel for the first time this winter, as we got about three inches of snow. Two days later it was forty degree and pouring rain. I knew that as all that snow melted I would have icy puddles when the temps drop back down below freezing.

So yesterday morning I headed to the park to find puddles. The melted snow settles in low areas and the ice will have some cool abstract and many of the puddles will have leaves locked in the ice.

Here’s one of the puddles.

Here’s some more puddles I was searching for art.

Here is one cool image of some interesting bubble formations.

There are always some nice puddles in the two track roads.

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I found this nice arrangement of leaves and some bubbles.

Shooting with my Nikon D7000 and a Tamron 90mm macro, F/8.

With a little magic in Nik software I made a big change in the look of both these images.  I wanted a dark ice so used the “Dark Contrasts” filter in Color Efex Pro 4 which blacked out  the ice in the background and gave the images a more dramatic feel.

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Here is the image how it look out of the camera.  Pretty boring looking, but thankfully I have Nik Software to make these images pop. I cropped the image off the right side and cloned out the leaf on the right.

Get out to shoot puddles after a good thaw and refreeze.

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