A few from a recent Iceland workshop with Muench workshops

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edited March 23, 2014 in Landscapes
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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2014
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  • endurodogendurodog Registered Users Posts: 183 Major grins
    edited March 3, 2014
    Fantastic!!!!
  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,245 moderator
    edited March 3, 2014
    OOoooooh! I've never witnessed the Aurora with my own eyes. Lucky you to have been there when there was activity. And those ice cave shots! More, more, more!
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  • OsoOso Registered Users Posts: 164 Major grins
    edited March 3, 2014
    Beautiful. Hope these are/will be hanging on a wall. If you have a few minutes, would be great if you could write a little about how you composed and made these images. Congrats on the fine work!
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  • anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
    edited March 3, 2014
    Awesome. We added Iceland to our places to see list. I'm hoping we can go next year.
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  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited March 3, 2014
    Color be jealous.

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    edited March 4, 2014
    Prachtig.
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  • FlyNavyFlyNavy Registered Users Posts: 1,350 Major grins
    edited March 4, 2014
    Wow! Stunning work. Looks like you visited Iceland in February? I have some time off in August and am wondering how you planned your trip?
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  • JonaBeth RussellJonaBeth Russell Registered Users Posts: 1,065 Major grins
    edited March 4, 2014
    Absolutely beautiful!
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    edited March 4, 2014
    Beautiful!!
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  • CatOneCatOne Registered Users Posts: 957 Major grins
    edited March 4, 2014
    Oso wrote: »
    Beautiful. Hope these are/will be hanging on a wall. If you have a few minutes, would be great if you could write a little about how you composed and made these images. Congrats on the fine work!

    Thanks!

    Well composition is composition... it's hard to say exactly mwink.gif

    All the pictures of ice were with my wide-angle lens (a 17-40), mostly on the wide end. The 17-40 is pretty sharp with a nearly infinite DOF around f/11 so I just parked it there and shot at whatever shutter speed necessary (I was shooting Aperture priority). I most cases they were about a 10 second exposure around ISO 200. The one with our guide I cranked up the ISO to 800 or so and it was a ~1.5 second exposure (she was standing pretty still... I think she'd done this before :-)

    The aurora I was shooting f/4 (wide open on the 17-40) at ISO 800 at around 20 seconds, though that can be too slow in some cases to get the best definition as the aurora moves a lot. f/2.8 for 8-10 seconds is probably better for the more detailed lines you get in an aurora.
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  • CatOneCatOne Registered Users Posts: 957 Major grins
    edited March 4, 2014
    Oso wrote: »
    Beautiful. Hope these are/will be hanging on a wall. If you have a few minutes, would be great if you could write a little about how you composed and made these images. Congrats on the fine work!
    FlyNavy wrote: »
    Wow! Stunning work. Looks like you visited Iceland in February? I have some time off in August and am wondering how you planned your trip?

    Yes, I was there in February. I went with Muench Workshops (Marc posts in these forums a bit): http://muenchworkshops.com/workshops/

    I don't always have time to do the extensive scouting and gain the local knowledge, so I often rely on workshops to get expert knowledge. You're trading some costs for some time but your chances of being in the _right_ place at the _right_ time go up substantially :D
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  • rwellsrwells Registered Users Posts: 6,084 Major grins
    edited March 4, 2014
    Excellent work thumb.gif
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  • sapphire73sapphire73 Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 1,972 moderator
    edited March 4, 2014
    Stunning work!

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  • byoshibyoshi Registered Users Posts: 353 Major grins
    edited March 7, 2014
    Awesome!
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  • MitchellMitchell Registered Users Posts: 3,503 Major grins
    edited March 7, 2014
    Awesome work!!

    Now I regret not joining that trip. How was the weather?
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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited March 7, 2014
    Color me aurora-green with envy, Bill. bowdown.gif
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  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins
    edited March 7, 2014
    Very nice!
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  • perronefordperroneford Registered Users Posts: 550 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2014
    FANTASTIC work!
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  • PrevailingConditionsPrevailingConditions Registered Users Posts: 178 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2014
    Great work Bill. Thanks for including the guide in shot #5 to give things a little scale. Her red jacket contrasts nicely with the blue of the ice.
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  • CatOneCatOne Registered Users Posts: 957 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2014
    Mitchell wrote: »
    Awesome work!!

    Now I regret not joining that trip. How was the weather?

    The weather was quite cold. I looked at the expected temperatures (in the 26-34F range) and thought it wouldn't be a big deal, as I often go on bike rides in similar temperatures with just a couple layers of clothing. However, it was EXTREMELY cold. I had on 3 base layers, a fleece, a 1/4" thick wool sweater, and a coat, along with 3 stocking caps, gloves, expedition pants and long underwear. And I was FRIGIDLY cold. I had a pair of gloves that I cycle with all the time in 28 degree temperatures that work fine. They were not fine. It was brutal.

    I think it was probably due to the wind: Often it was in the 25-40 MPH range, but the last few days of the trip we were seeing winds at 30-40 m/s (that's 70-90 mph), as indicated on the signs they had out there which track wind speeds. That made it pretty rough.

    I think it's tolerable if you have the right clothes, but I didn't. It's absolutely mandatory to take a big, thick, Arctic-class jacket when you go. Something rated to -10F would be my suggestion, as it really felt 20-30 degrees colder than the temperatures would indicate!

    Otherwise, it was nice mwink.gif

    Also, inside the ice cave, without the wind, I think I could have stripped down to my boxers and lounged around, it felt so nice by comparison. I didn't, simply because I didn't want to wreck anybody's picture :D
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  • CatOneCatOne Registered Users Posts: 957 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2014
    PrevailingConditions wrote: »
    Great work Bill. Thanks for including the guide in shot #5 to give things a little scale. Her red jacket contrasts nicely with the blue of the ice.

    Thanks! The jacket actually had more of an orange hue but I shifted it because I thought the red worked better with the blue ice mwink.gif
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited March 10, 2014
    Great shots, I love the ice cave shots. Great color.

    I thought it might be very cold in Iceland in February, but I think it was colder here in the central US this winter. But I see it was cold for you also, due to extreme winds.
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  • OsoOso Registered Users Posts: 164 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2014
    Thanks for the exposure info -- it's helpful. That shot with the guide really needs to be in Outside magazine or something like it.
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  • joe-bobjoe-bob Registered Users Posts: 368 Major grins
    edited March 20, 2014
    Incredible! It's like a different world.
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited March 23, 2014
    Bill, it was great to have you on this workshop, boy you sure came away with some fine, fine images! Wasn't that ice cave ah-mazing?
    Next stop, Greenland!
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