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Kolkuós
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July 26, 2012
July 26, 2012
Summer sunset from Kolkuós, Skagfjörður - North Part of Iceland. Kolkuós is now derelict but was an ancient trading centre. There is an excellent natural harbour there.
- Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark III
- Focal Length 23mm
- Shutter Speed 31.4 sec
- Aperture f/22
- ISO/Film 100
- Category Nature
- Uploaded 11 months ago
- Taken June 1st 2012
- Copyright Jon Hilmarsson
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The midnight sun in Iceland can be very strong.
What I used for this photo shot was three different filters - one polarizing - one 3 stops lee filter - one 0.9 hard lee filter. Probably I also used the magic cloth technique here which is a fancy word for moving your hand or glove in front of the lens for some time to darken the bright areas.
It became very popular to use heavy ND-grads and/or digital processing to make "pseudo-HDR" images that look really awful. If something is in shadow it must be at least a bit darker than areas filled with light. And here it's done in a natural-looking manner. Thanks a lot for so careful handling with Light :)