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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Josh-H on September 02, 2010, 06:04:15 am

Title: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: Josh-H on September 02, 2010, 06:04:15 am
Selfoss is a short ten minute walk upstream from Detifoss - full story of this photograph on my Blog at http://blog.jholko.com - Enjoy and comments and thoughts welcome as always.
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on September 02, 2010, 10:36:35 am
This one works very well for me. I notice that it doesn't have any large areas with no detail.
Lovely image, Josh.

Eric
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: dmerger on September 02, 2010, 11:12:27 am
Yes, a beautiful photo.  My personal preference, however, would be for a faster shutter speed, if possible.  I imagine that in person there must have been a rather loud roar from the water and an overwhelming sense of the sheer power of the water.  A slow shutter speed turns the water silky and, in my opinion, doesn’t convey the power and majesty of the falls.  Rather, to me this photo, with the silky smooth water, conveys a sense of serenity (which may have been intentional).   I expect I’m in the minority, however, because most of the photos I see of powerful waterfalls show the effects of a rather slow shutter speed. 

Dean Erger
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: Riaan van Wyk on September 02, 2010, 02:05:01 pm
Stunning image Josh. I love the contrast/ contradiction between the allmighty, thunderous river and the small stream in the bottom right. Well seen Sir..
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on September 02, 2010, 02:51:05 pm
Fantastic.

Jeremy
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: degrub on September 02, 2010, 10:42:18 pm
WOW

Single exposure with just the ND filter ?

Frank
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: Josh-H on September 02, 2010, 11:25:14 pm
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WOW

Single exposure with just the ND filter ?

Frank

Thanks Frank - yes, single exposure with ND filter.
Canon EOS 1DSMK3 w/ Canon 24mm F1.4L MKII @ ISO 100 F11 1.3sec. w/ LEE 3-Stop Soft ND Filter

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Fantastic.

Jeremy

Thankyou Jeremy ;D


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Stunning image Josh. I love the contrast/ contradiction between the allmighty, thunderous river and the small stream in the bottom right. Well seen Sir..

Thank you ;D

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Yes, a beautiful photo.

Thank you.

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This one works very well for me. I notice that it doesn't have any large areas with no detail.
Lovely image, Josh.

Eric

Thanks Eric - it is one my favourites ;D
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: AndrewKulin on September 03, 2010, 07:52:41 am
A river running straight (probably along a fault line or rift) fed by continuous line of waterfall (on both sides?).  I must say that I have never seen anything quite like this, ever, and I cannot imagine why.  Something akin to an artist's impression of some spot on a far off world.

Josh, you have posted many very nice landscape shots in the past.  This is by far my favourite (the uniqueness of the scene, the light, the movement of the water and that little bit of flow in the foreground (lower right) just doit fo me.

Very well done.



 
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: Justan on September 03, 2010, 09:05:13 am
Great shot - one of the nicest i've seen at this site.
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: sbunting108 on September 03, 2010, 01:19:08 pm
It is stunning photograph I especialy love how you included the rock in the bottom right to add some foreground interest :)
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on September 03, 2010, 03:00:11 pm
Molten silver .....
Beautiful!
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: Josh-H on September 04, 2010, 06:05:11 am
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A river running straight (probably along a fault line or rift) fed by continuous line of waterfall (on both sides?).  I must say that I have never seen anything quite like this, ever, and I cannot imagine why.  Something akin to an artist's impression of some spot on a far off world.

Josh, you have posted many very nice landscape shots in the past.  This is by far my favourite (the uniqueness of the scene, the light, the movement of the water and that little bit of flow in the foreground (lower right) just doit fo me.

Very well done.

Thank you - I am deeply humbled and greatly appreciate the feedback.

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Molten silver .....
Beautiful!

Thank you ;D

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Great shot - one of the nicest i've seen at this site.

Thank you ;D
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: Chairman Bill on September 04, 2010, 08:22:40 am
This one is stunning. 'Nuff said really
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: John R on September 04, 2010, 04:45:10 pm
A great image as is your water and ice image.

JMR
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Post by: EduPerez on September 05, 2010, 04:05:50 pm
An amazing series!
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: eleanorbrown on September 06, 2010, 11:38:00 am
This is one I wish I'd taken...flawless in every way! Eleanor
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: Tim Gray on September 07, 2010, 09:36:19 pm
Been watching this, and the others for a few days. This is my favorite so far.  All the more frustrating since I was there with Josh and had the same opportunity.
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: Josh-H on September 08, 2010, 05:39:32 pm
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Been watching this, and the others for a few days. This is my favorite so far.  All the more frustrating since I was there with Josh and had the same opportunity.

Thanks Tim - I'll make sure this one is in the print exchange  ;D
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: Dale Villeponteaux on September 11, 2010, 08:54:03 am
The whole series is stunning.  I could only wish that a simple trip to Iceland would get me to a place where I was able to take such pictures.
Title: Re: Iceland #3 - Selfoss
Post by: finepixpro on September 11, 2010, 08:59:46 am
Very impressive.