This 'Iced Stone' picture was taken at a winter landscape workshop in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The location was the southern tip of Lauttasaari Island (aka Drumso), a residential area 5km from the City Centre.
To the right of the picture, the sea was frozen, but the water was still open in this area even though the temperature was -4 °C. The water kept the lower stones ice-free, but the higher stone was cooled to freezing temperatures between the waves.
This subject immediately caught my interest, whereas the other workshop participants continued to an area with an ice-covered sea. I positioned my tripod in the shallow water and adjusted my 24mm tilt-shift lens so that I would get a sharp picture from the foreground to the horizon.
The first version, with a normal exposure time of 1/4sec, looked restless due to the waves. The water in this final version was smoothed out with a 9-stop ND filter. However, the predominantly grey colours with subdued green and brown nuances didn't match my vision. Therefore, I converted the picture to monochrome in Silver EFEX Pro and gave it a bluish tone.
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