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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Rajan Parrikar on September 12, 2013, 10:40:45 pm

Title: Midnight in Skagafjörður
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on September 12, 2013, 10:40:45 pm

Scenes from a summers' midnight sun in Skagafjörður in north Iceland.  More images here (http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2013/09/13/midnight-in-skagafjordur/).  (The red of the truck cannot be accommodated within the sRGB gamut.)

Midnight in Skagafjörður (http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2013/09/13/midnight-in-skagafjordur/)

(http://www.parrikar.org/images/LL/Trollaskagi-Skagafjordur-Iceland.jpg)

(http://www.parrikar.org/images/LL/Truck-Skagafjordur-Iceland.jpg)

Title: Re: Midnight in Skagafjörður
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on September 13, 2013, 04:34:23 am

Nice light. That red is like "Ferrari" red :)

Title: Re: Midnight in Skagafjörður
Post by: Bullfrog on September 13, 2013, 08:37:21 am

I like the first one very much.

Title: Re: Midnight in Skagafjörður
Post by: Matt Tilghman on September 13, 2013, 12:28:48 pm

Love these minimalist compositions!  A fresh approach that is not often taken in regards to Iceland's landscapes.

Title: Re: Midnight in Skagafjörður
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on September 13, 2013, 02:32:54 pm

Paulo, Bullfrog, Matt - thank you for your comments.

Paulo - the 'red' is first killed when the image is converted from ProPhoto space to sRGB, and then again by the gamut-limited monitors.  I see that on the iPad it is rendered orange-y, and it is not much better on the MacBook Air screen either.  I haven't yet checked the Retina MacBook Pro.

Matt - it took me several years to see Iceland in a different light (pardon the pun).  Confronted with those wild landscapes, the temptation to molest the contrast and saturation sliders is high.

Title: Re: Midnight in Skagafjörður
Post by: Harald L on September 13, 2013, 06:56:59 pm

First one is nice but the second one is smashing!

Harald