Freeze Like a Phoenix - a photo on Flickriver

             
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Fancy some early ESC?

This is the second MM appearance of my Schleich Mini Eldrador "dragon snake" figure. The first one was for "Ficticious" in October '23. It wasn't easy to convince the proud fire creature to let me put it into a small kitchen container, get itself doused in water, and, the possibly worst thing: spend the night and half of Sunday in the freezer. But Bertie Wanda's shining example (and Flickr fame) were very convincing, so it played along. Not without hissing at me "Just wait what will happen to your freezer tonight. You might find it molten to pieces tomorrow!" before I closed the freezer door. No such thing happened, luckily, and when I took the tiny dragon snake out of the freezer, it told me: "I spent the night doing some internet research on ice baths and their health benefits. With all my inner fire, it was quite a refreshing experience." Such dignity... ;)

The image is a single shot, handheld even, to get the right angle. During the freezing process, the small figurine drifted towards the upper edge of the small container, and even though translucent, I didn't want to have it in the image. I also tried some focus stacking but the camera gave me an error several times. The half-frozen dragon snake with the bright ice texture layer on top was probably still a little too diffuse for autofocus to catch on properly during the stacking process. I could have combined the images in Helicon Focus, but liked this single image and thought that it was sharp enough. I hope you agree.

Illuminated from above with my natural light photo LED lamp, and slightly from the left/front with my LED Lenser flashlight set on "spot" to highlight the dragon snake's face and some of the ice texture. 

HMM, Everyone! I'm very busy today and hope I can catch up with you tonight!

Taken on: March 24, 2024

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Camera: Olympus E-M1MarkIII, f/5.0, 1/50 sec, 30mm (=60mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Olympus E-M1MarkIII
Lens:	OLYMPUS M.30mm F3.5 Macro
Aperture:	f/5.0
Exposure Time:	0.02 sec (1/50)
Focal Length:	30mm (35mm equivalent: 60mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 13.2 (Windows)
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