Three more waterfall shots, trying to capture some of the rugged beauty while trying to avoid taking the usual tourist shots.
The first is Dettifoss again, from above, using an ND8 filter to darken and slow down the shutter speed. Riding on the bikes enabled us to avoid the bus loads of tourists, while I still managed to
carry my tripod with me, for exactly this kind of photograph. Note: the rocks I took the previously posted Dettifoss panoramic from are the ones just below the center of this shot. They were kind of wet, slippery and pretty scary!
The second image is a relatively high speed telephoto shot of the face of the falls.
Mesmerising in real life and practically impossible to capture in a still image, but
I like the shot. I took quite a few with varying shutter speeds and zoom, before choosing this one for it's composition, variety, action and balance.
The third image is a composite panorama of Godafoss.
15 wide angle portrait images stitched to form a sweeping view of the falls, as wide as my equipment would allow from this fantastic viewpoint jutting out from the vertical cliff face riverbank.
The pure ice melt water takes on a fantastic colour, which is really picked out by the polariser and
lucky enough to have a little dramatic cloud in the background on that day, rather than blue skies.
We found out later that while we headed anti-clockwise from the ferry in the Sun (there is only one major road around Iceland), those that chose clockwise were getting heavy rain and sleet.
Apparently this is often the case in Iceland, luckily we'd met a veteran Iceland explorer who while discussing which way around to go, told us "if it's cloudy in the South, head North". Blunt, honest and very good advice as it turns out. By the time we circumnavigated around to the South, besides one hail shower, it was back to being nice again!
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| ISO100, 22mm, f/22, 1.3s, ND8 filter, circular polariser, levels, desaturate |
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| ISO400, 200mm, f/6.3, 1/1000s |
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| ISO320, 16mm, f/10, 1/30s, -0.3 ev, circular polariser, composite |
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