Godafoss Waterfall Northern Iceland

[IanC_UK]

20d and 17-40L :) looks a bit dark to me? What do you think ?

http://www.cookster.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10002/Godafoss.jpg

[CraigF]

Have you desaturated it?
Dosent look that dark although it looks like one of those scenes where bracketing and then blending might have worked better.

[IanC_UK]

Nope not desaturated is exactly how it looked, seems a little dark though, there was no sunlight is a little overcast here lol

[InaGlo]

Brrr!!! looks very cold there!
Comes over as an awsome & desolate scene.

[IanC_UK]

Brrr!!! looks very cold there!
Comes over as an awsome & desolate scene.

Thanks Glo, am going to the most powerful waterfall in Europe in the next couple of Days, Dettifoss, hoping o be able to do at least one of them Justice lol :)

[Marcel]

Did you not fancy going skinny dipping? (Your sensor needs a clean btw ;))

[King_Boru]

looks a bit dark to me? What do you think

It does look dark. This is probably because of the white water (and bright sky a little). The camera will see this as bright subject matter and compensate accordingly (meaning a faster shutter speed or smaller aperture). I have been trying to brush my landscape skills up recently as found that when photographing water, generally flowing white water, I usually spot meter off a nearby rock or grass patch and go from there. Alternatively, if it is a rather dull scene as per the above I use matrix metering and compensate anything from 0.7 to 1 EV.

Hope this helps and if you already knew that then I dont mean to sound patronizing.

:)

King.

[IanC_UK]

It does look dark. This is probably because of the white water (and bright sky a little). The camera will see this as bright subject matter and compensate accordingly (meaning a faster shutter speed or smaller aperture). I have been trying to brush my landscape skills up recently as found that when photographing water, generally flowing white water, I usually spot meter off a nearby rock or grass patch and go from there. Alternatively, if it is a rather dull scene as per the above I use matrix metering and compensate anything from 0.7 to 1 EV.

Hope this helps and if you already knew that then I dont mean to sound patronizing.

:)

King.

Thanks for that :) im hopeless at landscapey type shots, so any advice greatfully recieved :)

[HuntingMartians]

Hey Ian did you have a look at my Iceland pics. We had talked about the trip a while back. I was there 3 weeks ago, if not have a look here (http://huntingmartians.com/GallerySeven.html)for any places worth going, all the pics have the loacation in the bottom left

[IanC_UK]

Thanks again :) think i looked at them a while back but ill have another mooch :)

Had a bit of a knock today, Dettifoss is unaccessible :(

Im right up in the far north east at the moment, and heading back down towards Rekjavik tomorrow sometime, going to take a few days to get there though, as taking in some of the sights :)