EXTREME ICE CLIMBING PANORAMA
Ice climbing photographer Ignacio Ferrando Margeli in the Pyrenees.
by Michelle Bienias
 Photographer: Ignacio Ferrando Margelí, of Abaco Digital.What: Extreme Ice Climbing Panorama (XVR?)
Ignacio writes, “The guys you see in the pano are professional climbers that were opening a new route; this kind of climb is called Dry tooling because they use their ice climbing tools to climb in the rock up to the ice falls.”
When: March 2, 2004
“The weather was fine to do this (max temperature -8C) but not for my foot fingers -I waited 2 hours in place and lost some sensibility.”Where: A mountain in the Pyreness, in the Tena Valley, Aragon, SpainWhy: “It's really fun to do this kind of work....”How:
“This time there were no axes because I can't stand without a rope, there were some 10 meters of vertical rock and ice below me. There was only a little place for my feet so I needed to hand off the rope to take the photos... I carried the monopod and the VR rig to take the photos but there was not enough place so I took the shot handheld....”Shoot Details:
“I use a D1x with sigma 8mm handheld, I use also a Nikon 12-24 DX to shoot the background, then in the post processing I add to the pano, the processing was done with PTmac and PTools in Photoshop.”
Email: if@abaco-digital.com
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