Hvítserkur

Hvítserkur was one of those places I wanted to photograph no matter what. Seeing some dark clouds while driving a gravel road made me smile. I had a specific composition in my mind and fast-moving dark clouds were a key element of it. The only thing I didn't think about, was rain. And just as we left the car, it started to rain heavily. But no weather condition would stop us.
We took the steep slippery path down to the beach, step by step. Crossed a small stream, which originated at a small waterfall and cut the beach across. And finally, we were there standing in front of the giant breathtaking basalt stack. But the angle wasn't right just yet. So we followed the shoreline till the composition was as I imagined. At this time it was still raining, but we decided to take the risk of getting our gear wet and we set up our tripods in the black sand. The moment I took my camera out of my camera bag the rain sopped. I appreciated the view for a brief moment and then immediately started to fight with my equipment. I put the camera on my tripod, framed the shoot, set my base exposure, focused on the basalt stack, and took a test shoot. The exposure was just perfect, with no blown-out highlights and no clipping shadows. The only thing I had to do now, was to screw on my polarizer and my 10 stop ND-filter. Back then I was still using my screw-on filters, which have quite a few disadvantages. One of those disadvantages is, that they never screw on properly on the first try. Then I grabbed my wireless remote control and took the shoot. It came out almost perfect straight out of the camera. But still almost perfect isn't good enough for me, however with just a few Lightroom and Photoshop adjustments I was satisfied with the final result.
Just to be safe, I've taken a few more exposures, and now it was time to pack everything and return to our car in order to continue our journey across Iceland.
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