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The Essential Landscape Photography Camera Gear Guide: How to Choose the Right Lens & Camera for Incredible Results
Capturing the grandeur of nature with a single frame can be incredibly gratifying. But to capture exemplary landscape shots you need the right kind of landscape photography camera gear.
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Night Photography – uncovering the secrets of nature at night
Night photography with long exposure can reveal aspects of the landscape that are not visible during the day. With a longer exposure time, the camera can pick up more light from distant objects and stars, giving the photographer more control over their composition. It was my love and obsession of capturing the Aurora Borealis, which […]
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Inspiration – What inspires you to take photos?
Hello Readers This post is going to be pure waffle… you have been warned! Why take photos? It makes me wonder sometimes why do I enjoy taking and making pictures so much, I don’t do it for the money, so what exactly do I get out of it?It all started when I moved to Iceland […]
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Beginner’s guide to Night Photography
Night photography and Beginner photographers can go together and they should go together. This articles discussed some Night photography basics for anyone interested.
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How to Photograph the Northern Lights
A total guide to taking photographs of the Northern lights for Digital Cameras & wide angle lenses. This night photography guide includes camera settings, equipment suggestions and some Northern lights photo examples.
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Landscape Photography Beginner Guide
Taking photos of Landscapes is such a cool activity that connects you to the nature and helps you forget negative thoughts. If your photography is good, then your viewers will benefit in the same ways. Here are a few thoughts on what landscape photography is, and how to develop your landscape photography skills.
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Tony’s Magic Cloth Technique – Long Exposure Photography
The Magic Cloth Technique involves controlling the amount of exposure to different parts of a scene during a slow shutter. The technique involves dodging and burning over a long exposure. Using a dark cloth (or card) you can reduce the exposure to the sky (or highlights) by covering the front of the lens for part of the exposure time
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Seascapes – Coastal Photography – Shutter Speed Considerations
The potential for good photographs at the seaside is endless. Whether it is rocky, craggy, sandy or pebbles, the capture of the ocean interacting with these elements is challenging and fun.
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Pink Pearls at Jökulsarlon Ice beach – Long Exposure Photography
I was trying to triangulate the 3 main subjects. The middle iceberg was a bit too close to the center but getting closer to the nearest piece of ice allowed me to form a triangle. It was important to be a few meters from the ice, so that I could include more sky with them.
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Beauty on the Diamond Ice Beach – Iceland Photography
In December, the sun rises around 11 a.m. which meant that we could make it if we left Reykjavik at 04:00. This particular morning, we left Reykjavik but quickly came across black ice…
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Magical Dawn – Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon – Icelandic Summer
Taking nature photographs on a beautiful Summer morning at Jokulsarlon with some icebergs reflecting in the glacier lagoon.
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Goðafoss Waterfall – 175 Second Long Exposure Photography
I love visiting Goðafoss Waterfall in the late Summer. The sunset colours work so well with this dynamic, North Iceland waterfall. I was facing West around 20.30 on this September evening on a tour around Iceland.
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Aurora Mountain – Northern Lights Photo
This South Iceland spot can be very good for Northern lights photography because there is a possibility of capturing a reflection of the Aurora Borealis in the landscape.
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Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon South Iceland – Long Exposure Photography
A slow shutter can be achieved with a dark filter (often called an ND filter), or by taking the photograph in low light.
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Treasure Iceland – Diamond Beach Iceland
If you catch the glacier ice beach at the right time, you can photograph the incredible colours of a sunset or sunrise.
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Goðafoss Waterfall Rainbow – Icelandic Summer Sunrise
In the Summer, I like to photograph Goðafoss waterfall in North Iceland at an un-godly hour!! The waterfall of the Gods is at the perfect angle for a Summer sunrise.