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"The Unexpected"

This image was shot right on the main access to the Skogafoss waterfall, as soon as you leave the Ring Road. It was shot...
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"The Unexpected"

This image was shot right on the main access to the Skogafoss waterfall, as soon as you leave the Ring Road. It was shot in June 2016, at 3 am, when the sun was starting to wake up the skies with powerful magenta tones. As soon as you leave the Ring Road, you just know than in about 5 minutes you'll be standing in front of one of the most epic waterfalls in the world, so it's very easy to not even look around our surroundings. Fortunately on this day I did, captivated by gorgeous lupine flowers on the side of the road. The sky was burning with color, so I decided to leave the car and scout a bit, which allowed me to find this fantastic combination of lupines, river, mountain and sunrise light.

Not an easy photo to make, due to wind and lupine movement. As usual, I don't like to do exposure blending so had to make it work in a single exposure. A shutter speed of 1/15th second was the slowest I could go without blurring the lupines too much, while still allowing sufficient light to enter the sensor and not having to increase ISO too much. Aperture was f8, the largest I could use to still keep a large depth of field. Once more I went for the Sony 10-18mm at 13mm on Full Frame. Full scene exposure was made possible with the use of a Nisi 4 stop soft ND Grad filter.

Location: Skogar, Iceland

Technical data:

Sony a7R + Sony 10-18mm f4 at 13mm
Aperture: f8
Shutter speed: 1/15th second
ISO: 800
Nisi 4 stop soft ND Grad filter
Vanguard Alta 283CT tripod + BBH-300 ballhead
Terrascape filter bag
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10 Comments | Report
DebbieKMiller81 Platinum
 
DebbieKMiller81 November 15, 2016
Gorgeous
RDVPhotography PRO+
 
RDVPhotography November 23, 2016
Congratulations for making the finals for Composition 101, this. Deserves to win! Appreciate how you got this shot, I don't like the work involved in blending multiple exposures either and use grad ND filters also
Jena_c23
 
Jena_c23 February 28, 2017
This is so amazing!! What a fantastic picture!!!
marnie333
 
marnie333 March 08, 2017
Captivating! Truly magnificent composition, color and perspective!
BYJUTHARAYIL
 
BYJUTHARAYIL May 24, 2017
what a lovely photograph!
MHKCapture
 
MHKCapture June 06, 2017
This is one of the most amazing shots I've seen so far. Beautiful work!
autumnmartinez
 
autumnmartinez January 03, 2018
Wow I would love to visit this place it’s absolutely beautiful!
Pete_Rowbottom
 
Pete_Rowbottom June 05, 2018
Fantastic image, superb
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B-Framed November 06, 2019
Your caption says it all. Wow
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stigfagerli March 03, 2020
Fantastic foto
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