January 6 - Ice Formations

About the photo:

I took this photo on my lunch break today... at Culver's. Water from the top of the building was obviously dripping down into the bush causing these crazy icicles. There was a better clump of ice in the same bush, but I didn't get a good shot of it. Bummer!

Assessment:

• I was kind of disappointed with this picture because of the cars in the background. I took this photo from inside the restaurant and wanted to try to take more outside (to avoid the background cars), but I ran out of time and had to go back to work.
• In order to make the icicles stand out, I really cranked up the contrast. I also made slight adjustments to the highlights, saturation and sharpness.
• Finally, I added a little bit of edge blur to push the focus toward the center of the picture.