Kirkjufellsfoss deserted
I visit Kirkjufellsfoss on every trip to Iceland. It is a love-hate relationship: on the one hand, there are clearly too many people here for me - every tour gr...
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I visit Kirkjufellsfoss on every trip to Iceland. It is a love-hate relationship: on the one hand, there are clearly too many people here for me - every tour group visits the waterfall, whole busloads of tourists are carted here. On the other hand, I've never been lucky with the weather - the sky was always gray in gray. Now, shortly after the borders opened after the corona-related closure, there were almost no tourists - I just had to share the place with a handful of other photographers. On the other hand, I finally got lucky with the weather and was able to experience a wonderful sunset
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Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Aperture f/11 ISO 100 Shutter 1/1 Focal Length 16/1 
Grundarfjörþur, Snafellsnes- og Hnappadalssysla, IS
Jul, 2020Views
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Location
I don't think there is much to say about this place - it is the most photographed place in Iceland: Mount Kirkjufell with the Kirkjufellsfoss waterfall in the foreground on the Snæfellsnes peninsula in VesturlandTime
It is sunset at mid-summer. The place is too south for the midnight sun, but it has a sunset (or sunrise) that lasts for hoursLighting
I visit this place every time I stay in Iceland, but until this picture I never had any luck with the weather, mostly it was very cloudy and raining or snowing, or the wind was too strong... Finally everything worked, a few clouds and yet enough clear sky so that the setting sun could illuminate clouds from belowEquipment
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM, 16mm, ISO 100, f/11, ND- and GND-filter, tripodInspiration
This is a wonderful place, the combination of waterfall and mountain is fascinating. The place is also easy to get to as it is right next to the road. Therefore it is usually overcrowded, and whole busloads of tourists are driven there. It was different in the pandemic summer of 2020 - entry to Iceland was only possible from mid-June, and only for European tourists, so that finally the opportunity arose to enjoy the natural beauties of the island almost aloneEditing
This is an HDR recording, so I took a series of exposures and combined the images in Skylum's Aurora program. The program includes a number of presets, you just have to choose the right oneIn my camera bag
First and foremost, I photograph landscapes. I have two lenses in my backpack for this genre: the Canon EF 16-35mm f / 4L IS USM and the Canon EF 24-105mm f / 4L IS USM. Various ND and GND filters as well as a tripod are of course always included. If the way to the photo spot is not too long or too difficult, I also like to take the Tamron 70-300mm 1: 4-5.6 SP Di VC USM with me for detailed shots. Occasionally I do astrophotography with the Tamron SP 15-30mm f / 2.8 Di VC USD, but this thing is so heavy that it is only taken for that special occasion. My second big passion is wildlife photography. Here I have the Tamron SP 150-600mm F / 5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 (also very heavy and therefore not always in the rucksack) for the larger and more abrasive specimens and the Tamron SP 90mm 1: 2.8 Di Macro 1:1 VC USD for the tiny ones I use all those lenses with my Canon EOS 5D Mark IV My newest toy is a drone: the dji Mavic 2 pro for unusual perspectives, abstractions and a view over the fogFeedback
It's difficult to photograph something similar, because the weather is always different and the sun sets in a different place almost every day ... To have the setting sun in the picture, you definitely have to go to it in summer Place to come, but Kirkjufell is worth a visit at any time of the year - just think of the Northern Lights!
