Michael St. Jean
Tiny Gullfoss
This is Gullfoss through a a tilt adapter and 50mm lens (100mm on a m4/3rds camera). I had originally dismissed this image as being too washed out from too much mist in the air and on the lens and could not get any clarity or color fidelity. However a few minutes in Lightroom with a B&W conversion, slight toning, some dodging the waterfall's edge, and burning the little people (sorry tourists)...and now this is one of my personal favorites. From trash to treasure.
As you can see the Icelandic government does not rope/fence off their landmarks. They leave it natural with the unspoken sentiment that if you are too stupid to stand right near the edge and fall in, you probably deserve to die anyway.
Taken handheld with a GF1, Nikkor 50mm 1.8D and tilt adapter. I also remember having a polarizing filter on the lens, it was overcast, misty (in the air, on the lens, and on my glasses) and with the distortion caused by the tilted lens, very difficult to manually focus. Got lucky, though.
Tiny Gullfoss
This is Gullfoss through a a tilt adapter and 50mm lens (100mm on a m4/3rds camera). I had originally dismissed this image as being too washed out from too much mist in the air and on the lens and could not get any clarity or color fidelity. However a few minutes in Lightroom with a B&W conversion, slight toning, some dodging the waterfall's edge, and burning the little people (sorry tourists)...and now this is one of my personal favorites. From trash to treasure.
As you can see the Icelandic government does not rope/fence off their landmarks. They leave it natural with the unspoken sentiment that if you are too stupid to stand right near the edge and fall in, you probably deserve to die anyway.
Taken handheld with a GF1, Nikkor 50mm 1.8D and tilt adapter. I also remember having a polarizing filter on the lens, it was overcast, misty (in the air, on the lens, and on my glasses) and with the distortion caused by the tilted lens, very difficult to manually focus. Got lucky, though.