To find your spirit animal, sit quietly in a comfortable place, just breathing and relaxing for some time, (may take a few attempts) your spirit animal will come to you…
Landscape photography
A collection of photos, articles and tutorials all about landscape photography in Iceland.
Excuse me
I have witnessed some angry exchanges between photographers in busy places. But I am hoping here to help you see that all this anger is unnecessary.
Fibonacci and the Gods
Fibonacci Spirals After looking into “Golden Curves”, “Golden Ratios” or “Fibonacci…
Get high
As important as finding high ground is in wilderness survival, I would like to include the concept in my photography survival kit-bag. This article explores some of the technical advantages of the high ground.
From lines come proportions
After learning the importance of lines in Telephoto Landscape photography, something obvious occurred to me. From those lines come proportions.
Ice cave photography
Ice caves are like magical underground secrets, but of course they are not underground, they are under the glaciers. Ice-caves can take many different forms…
Seeing the un-seen
One of the things I love about photography is that you are able to see things you normally wouldn’t. This is especially evident with Night photography when a long exposure reveals objects and colours that you never knew were there.
My perspective
PHOTOGRAPHY IS ABOUT FORCING YOUR PERSPECTIVE ONTO OTHERS: I am going to explore this statement made by one of my guests, just to see if she is a big liar, or is there some truth to the statement. If so, does all communication attempt to do this? or maybe just art?
Telephoto: the needs for lines
When I play back through my shots I see how I am working on a frame getting slightly closer to the correct composition. It can be useful to study your work like this sometimes. What seems clear is that there can be different rules of composition depending on your focal length.
Blue skies arrrgghh!
Blue skies are my favourite for sunbathing, but not for landscape photography. An opinionated article about clouds and depth.
Considering DOF in a beach scenic
There are times when a sea-scape requires a Deep DOF (Depth of field), but here we look at situations where you can get more from your lens by considering apertures such as f/6.3 for your scene.
TripodSnake – DIY Tripod Protectors
The tripod snake is an accessory to help protect your tripod from the sea. This is a DIY guide to make a set of tripod snakes at home.
Photographing an erupting Geyser
Golden Day We were out for the day on a Golden Circle…
Shooting against the spray
This article discusses tips for shooting against the rain or waterfall spray. Both are common issues when you are shooting against the wind near waterfalls or angry beaches in Iceland.
Intelligent focussing
With the ability to crop and adjust exposure in post-processing, focusing is one aspect which cannot be changed after the fact. In other words, as digital photography become easier and easier, the art of focusing is one of the few critical techniques remaining in the quest to make photos from single frames.
Feel the Landscape – Nature Photography
If you are a landscape photographer and you want to really convey the ‘feeling’ of the land, you should allow the landscape to possess you.