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Here are some winter landscapes from my A7RII Torture Test trip to Kuusamo in Finland. Photographed during 4 hour period during one day with constantly changing light conditions and fog. Our week was 6 days of "bad" weather and one day of sunshine which we decided to put into use despite of pretty nasty conditions.
I picked these five to show the variety of light one might catch there. All images except the first one are vertical stitch (with tilt) panoramas with Canon 90mm TS-E.
We do not have the majesty of grand mountainscapes and such but winterscapes can be rather funky provided you get some passable weather. Hope you enjoy them!
kwilliam8 wrote:
As you said, there is quite a variety of light there! Wonderful images and a joy to view.
Keith W.
Thanks. The place is magical during the day but gets a bit scary at night You can feel the shapes crawling around you and you cannot really see them if there is no moonlight or auroras around. Light pollution up there is close to zero.
Beautiful set. The structures in the back look almost human in some of the images.
The #4 is striking to me. Congrats on all compositions. It was worth freezing for it.
Best,
Fred
Thank you gentlemen! Yes it was totally worth freezing there. I guess it was also fun to watch me composing with my Sony. One guy passed by on pair of skies and with no less than three(!) Canon bodies hanging around his neck. He laughed at my efforts
These images make me cold! Don't think I wold have spent the time to make them in that kind of winter environment, so I'm glad I could look at your very fine images (while it is 24C here in Texas today).
Aaand thank you too Shame that the weather didn't play so well for the rest of the week as rest of my pics are more or less "Fifty shades of Gr...white". Nevertheless, if you for some reason would like to visit Finland and see these trees, you need to time your trip from late december to the beginning of february. When the temps go up that hoarfrost shell cracks quickly and falls off. Especially so if wind picks up.
My own favorite is number 4 as well. The formation in the foreground was *Huge*. I will try to find some time to post more material from the week soon.
You can feel the shapes crawling around you and you cannot really see them if there is no moonlight or auroras around. Light pollution up there is close to zero.