Europe’s most powerful waterfall, all to ourselves under the midnight sky

Dettifoss is Europe's most powerful waterfall, located in the Vatnajökull National Park in the north-east of Iceland. Usually run over by tourists, we went there at 2am at night where we had the whole waterfall to ourselves. My friend John is standing at the cliff to take close up shots, while I was further away and taking shot with a long lens. He was so excited taking shots, repositioning himself, and taking more shots. I had a hard time catching up repositioning my camera from far away. For a brief moment he stood still, and I got this shot, which indicates the scale of Dettifoss.

 

I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, and desaturated the image. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

 

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-- ƒ/7.1, 76 mm, 0.4 sec, ISO 200, Sony A6000, SEL-55210, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC4566_hdr1bal1i.jpg

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2021 Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

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