Gary, I'm flattered. I guess when one enjoy shooting a lens, it does show
Werner: That's mind-boggling! It's like everything was aligned just for you to take that shot. It's amazing that you somehow kept yourself from casting your shadow into the scene.
Top of my photography bucket list is a week in Iceland.
Thank you! Yes, maybe you can cover the highlights in a week but you need to consider spending a few days more there. Why? The weather in Iceland is changing fast and mostly unpredictable. In the winter, the most photogenic season in my book, the frequency and duration of good weather is especially rare, unless you are extremely lucky, that is. So, you may want to hit a few spots more than just once. There are a few places that justify staying longer than just a day to make the most out of it. Plus, the best odds of seeing the northern lights is March, which is at the end of winter and October comes second. Regardless, you need clear skies for that.
(i) a soft rendering (heavy crop) of the world's #14 peak, 8000m Shishapangma, one of the easiest giants to climb, I hear; (ii) the nearby admin capital of the area, Shegar, with great traffic flows. CY 100/3.5 / a7r.
Interesting to see the outbreak of spring flowers from you northerners - love your pulsatillas, Ronny, which we grow in our garden here. Here's a total contrast, from a multi-day hiking-trip through Fiordland evergreen rainforest - wet for most of it, but hardly surprising with 5-8 metres of annual rainfall.
A7ii and FE 35/1.4, playing with depth of field on walk today near Haystock Rock in Cannon Beach OR USA. The creatures are Velella velella. There were probably hundreds of thousands of them on the beach. Victims of the wind and currents, betrayed by the clear sail-like fins on top of their bodies.
Gary, I'm flattered. I guess when one enjoy shooting a lens, it does show
Werner: That's mind-boggling! It's like everything was aligned just for you to take that shot. It's amazing that you somehow kept yourself from casting your shadow into the scene.
Thank you very much!
The trick with the shadow is using long exposure with ND filter and the remote: Leaves enough time to walk out of the shadow and removes people constantly walking there as well.
Time for gloves. FE55 / a7r. This combination is regarded (quite rightly) as very 'sharp' but its real virtues are (i) resolution of fine detail together with (ii) tone subtlety, e.g. the way light plays on clothing and surfaces; and (iii) 'trustworthy' bokeh.
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