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Háifoss is probably not the most famous icelandic waterfall and probably sometimes it is not even mentioned in the touristic travel books, but it deserves a visit! Personally I was impressed by its majesty and power and I observed with a sort of religious respect.
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Breiðafjörður is a large shallow bay, about 50 km wide and 125 km long and located in the west of Iceland. It separates the region of the Westfjords (Vestfirðir) from the rest of the country. Breiðafjörður is encircled by mountains, including glacier Snæfellsjökull the Snæfellsnes peninsula on the south side and the West Fjord peninsula to the north.
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Osmia bicornis ♀, Megachilidae
Females of this species have two peculiar horns/protrusions above their mandibles.
This is a studio stack of a dead, cleaned specimen found in my livingroom window.
Stacked from 121 exposures in Zerene Stacker.
Sony NEX-7 with reversed Canon 40/2.8 @ 1.3s, f/4.5, ISO100. This is the so called "nonaC 40/2.8" I've described in this post.
................ is a nonac. LOL
Here is the first shot from my new camera.
I got it yesterday and have been playing with it today. I think it will take a while before I fully get the hang of it. I will continue posting photos from the Olympus until I have fully figured it out. Wish me luck. Any tips will be gratefully received.
Armadillidium pulchellum (confirmation pending... edit: confirmed!)
Ø 2.5 mm (roughly 5 mm when extended)
I found these nicely colored pillbugs underneath the bark of an old decaying birch just a minute's walk from my doorstep. If my ID is correct, it does not appear to be a very common species. That is, it's not often being reported. In fact, mine appears to be the most northern record of this species (in Sweden) and the closest find is more than 150 km from here (with mostly sea in between) or > 300 km to the second closest find. However, something tells me this is a grossly overlooked (and under reported) group of arthropods, and it wouldn't surprise me if this species is much more common than we think.
Stacked from five handheld exposures in Zerene Stacker. Each 1/60, f/10, ISO100.
Shot with the gear described in my previous post: Sony NEX-7 + nonaC 40/2.8. Lighting provided by a diffused Meike MK-300.
Long exposure version of the previous picture. Not really happy with the end result. I succeeded in preserving some structure in the waterfall, but the central portion at the feet of the waterfall is almost wash-out. Indeed there is no texture or some sort of gradient..that day I learned that water sprays are not really compatible with long exposure, or at least with the result I was leaning to. The 10-stops ND filter was simply too much. Probably with a 3-stops I could have achieved a better result..
If you take a run-up till achieving sufficient momentum and jump, you could potentially gain access to heaven.
Shooting long exposures of waterfalls like Skógafoss with billions of floating water particles can be quite tedious! I have used my 10 stops ND filter.
Aldeyjarfoss is one of Iceland's most spectacular and photogenic waterfall. It flows with impressive power through a massive layer of basalt columns eroded by its endless impetus. Contemplating the beauty of Aldeyjarfoss transmits mixed feelings ranging from a deep sense of respect to anxiety.
Probably this is the best long-exposure of a waterfall I was able to capture with my 10-stops ND filter during my trip in Iceland. Indeed the radially distributed water stream looks gorgeous since it has kept its structure without smoothing out excessively. In addition I have used a 3 stop hard-edge GND to mask the sky and compensate the dynamic range with respect to the water basin.
This is the majestic view that welcomed us when we reached the pleasantly crowded camp site at Landamannalaugar, located at the feet of a gigantic solidified lava field. The saturated yellows colors were exalted by the warmth of the evening light.
Landmannalaugar camp site is the hub for several unique hiking trails across the region spacing from easy explorations of the lava field behind the information center to more challenging hikes like the Landamannalaugar-Þórsmörk trail. Landmannalaugar deserves at least a 2-3 days stay in order to enjoy the several activities this region can offer you.
This is a satellite view of the Landmannalaugar camp site from Google Maps. Note the lava field on the left, and on the right the mountain formation I have captured in my panorama.
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It's been a while, so I thought it's time for another gear post.
This is a summarized version of a blog post I posted in Swedish a few days ago here ». If you want the full version, please learn Swedish or read the google translated version (which I actually find quite comprehensible).
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The past season (2015) I've experimented with the automatic reversing adapter MK-C-UP from the Chinese manufacturer Meike. This gadget is depicted in the upper left corner of the image above. It consists of two parts connected with a coiled cord and makes it possible to maintain communication with a reverse mounted Canon lens.
Mounting a lens in reverse orientation is a classic trick to achieve macro magnification with non-macro optics. In the age of aperture rings and mechanical aperture control, this was just a matter of physically mounting the lens to the camera body. A very simple adapter, with bayonet mount in one end and a male filter thread in the other was sufficient do the trick since the mechanical aperture ring would let you stop down the lens weather it was mounted in reverse orientation or not. Nowadays most lenses communicate electronically with the camera body. And with this development we've lost the mechanical aperture control needed to easily able to set the aperture of a reverse-mounted lens.
The Meike MK-C-UP adapter solves this problem by providing a way to by-wire, electronically and seamlessly communicate with a reverse-mounted lens.
This is not a new invention: Novoflex has offered a similar adapter for years. But with MK-C-UP, Meike has made it affordable (≈ $60).
I've found this solution particularly useful in combination with the relatively cheap lens Canon 40 mm f/2.8 STM. For high magnification work, this combination rivals the more expensive Canon MP-E 65 mm f/2.8 at least in some respects. While not as flexible as the MP-E in terms of magnification ratio, this "nonaC 40/2,8" offers some very nice qualities in terms of portability and image quality.
Please continue this read in the first comment below »
In the second comment I'll add a collection of image examples.
And in the third comment I'll wrap things up with some thoughts and conclusions.
My 90D and I in a selfie in a moving car - it may not have been the best of ideas, but I kind of like how it came out...
Also, I flipped it horizontally to make it look more natural and so that "Canon" doesn't show up as "nonaC" :D
A minha 90D e eu numa selfie, num carro em andamento - pode não ter sido a melhor das ideias, mas até gosto do resultado...
Além disso, inverti a foto no sentido horizontal para parecer mais natural e para que "Canon" não apareça como "nonaC" :D
Squeesing and pushing every bit of an underexposed (-2 EV) Raw file!
This picture was meant to be the third shot for an HDR file. Unfortunately the three pictures were not perfectly aligned (no tripod). But before deleting the picture series I decided to play with the GND (graduated neutral density filter) in lightroom. I started by applying a -1/3 EV GND mask to the sky, and a +2EV mask to the rest of the picture. The first attempt, even if not perfect in particular througout the transition between trees and sky, looked already more than promising and pushed me to convert the raw in tiff16bit and to repeat the same operation in PS CS4, that in contrast to Lr provides more latitute and control on the mask definition. And this is the results. Basically I have squeezed the 10 EV of a RAW file in the 8EV of a jpeg.
What surprised me was the huge latitude in pushing the shadows without having to deal with cromance or luminance noise. So if your scene have a strong luminace contrast (10-11EV max) and you want to reduce the risk to burn the highlights, simply expose correctly for the highlights and try to recover the shadows detail in CS4. Furthermore this approach allows firstly to remove the risk of having moving objects (like the tree leaves) and secondly to increase the shutters speed of 2EV, so bye bye dammed tripod! The only precautions are to assure yourself that the scene doesn't exceed the dynamic range of your camera RAW (usually 10-12EV) through the spot exposure meter and to shoot with low ISO sensitivities (100-200).
What do you think? If you have questions, just leave a comment!