Stroll Ice Castles

[MountainMan79]

Went down to the park by my house where they have a large ice castle exhibit in the winters. It was a cold night for a stroll, at negative 10 F. I took my Olympus Pen F, as I wanted to put my new 12-45 through the paces. The Pen performance was mixed. It wasn’t deterred at all by the super cold temperatures, taking well over 100 pictures over the course of over an hour and the battery level didn’t budge. However I forgot how terrible the low light autofocus performance is, and especially in low contrast situations like this. That’s when I immediately missed having a focus clutch to pop into manual, and I had to go to the quick menu to switch into manual focus. Short of that inconvenience, I think it came out well, and at first glance I do like the lens quite a bit. I look forward to using it more. All SOOC jpgs-

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[DM Larson]

Awesome!

 

[MountainMan79]

Hmmmm. What’s with the one lonely attachment? Does this site limit to 14 pictures per post and then automatically add anything additional as an attachment? And it randomly took one from the middle of the set to. Anyone know?

 

[MoonMind]

Hmmmm. What’s with the one lonely attachment? Does this site limit to 14 pictures per post and then automatically add anything additional as an attachment? And it randomly took one from the middle of the set to. Anyone know?

I took the liberty to edit your post and insert the image at the end. It worked without a problem; if you look at the list of attachment, you see "Insert ..." displayed on top of each; click on that and then choose "Full image". Yes, high attachment counts can sometimes cause issues - it pays to check.

The only thing that's left to do is to move the image to its intended place within the series - which of course I can't know; just edit and correct ...

M.

 

[Apollo T.]

@MountainMan79
Lots of fine work here…especially love the butterflies!!!
Please give some more info about the event...in time for front page honors!

 

[MountainMan79]

Appreciate it!
Here’s some information on the 5 locations across the country-
Ice Castles

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Great shots, and congrats on 12-45. IBIS matters when you’re shivering.

 

[Kevin]

Hmmmm. What’s with the one lonely attachment? Does this site limit to 14 pictures per post and then automatically add anything additional as an attachment? And it randomly took one from the middle of the set to. Anyone know?

Just checked, the limit is set to 20 images per post.