The magical feather frost I did not know much about this stuff despite seeing it my whole life. I looked up some info and I guess it is kind of a rare form of frost (we get tons of it!) which needs very specific conditions to form, this frost is tiny strands of water freezing inside a waterlogged piece of wood and being extruded through the grain making fine hair like frost. The pictures were so hard to take it was way to dark forcing me to use a large f stop to achieve brightness thus destroying my depth of field in this macro.......next time bringing the tripod for this. Frost is unusually hard to deal with in Photoshop as well, its so white its hard not to drown out details while editing but that is why I love photography it is a constant learning experience it never ends every exposure is a different challenge.
Feather frost, pretty cool stuff alright.
ReplyDeleteI frequently use the "Shadows and Highlights" tool in Photoshop to recover overexposed areas when editing. It doesn't work for the totally blown out stuff but works good to get back the marginal ones.