Iceland Aurora Photographic » landscape

Cold climates

Tony — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:33:28 +0000

When you are taking your camera into cold conditions, it will be wise to follow a few simple precautions to protect you and your gear.

Feet

One of the most important thing to protect! They are, after all, what is going to get you out of potential danger. You need to think about protecting them first and foremost. Cold climates can present several different dangers to feet. The first is cold.

Night Photography 2 – overcoming the darkness

Tony — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:20:30 +0000

So you have the night photography bug. You sit twiddling your thumbs in the daylight hours waiting for the light to fade so that you can go out and leave your camera perfectly still with its shutter open for many tens of minutes. You are not alone!!

Products

Tony — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:44:20 +0000

I have chosen select high quality suppliers to present these products to you. They can be purchased directly from their on-line stores and they will be delivered to you in the time specified by the supplier.

Photography workshops in Reykjavik

Tony — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:09:05 +0000

These are similar to the tours, but are generally shorter and involve more tuition and less travel.

Exposing to the right

Tony — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:55:10 +0000

Until recently it was common practice for landscape photographers to slightly underexpose image to increase highlight detail and increase saturation. But there is a new school of thought which suggests over exposing just short of blowing out the highlights will actually give you a better range of colours.

Create a photoshop action – Colour boost

Tony — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:35:22 +0000

This tutorial offers an alternative to the saturation option when you wish to dramatically boost the colours in an image. We will make a photoshop action for this colour boosting technique so that it can be applied easily to any image in the future. More information about creating an action can be found here.

Photography techniques – Hyperfocal distance

Tony — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:13:47 +0000

Hyperfocal distance is the art in photography of achieving as much sharpness as possible throughout the image. In other words, it involves careful focusing adjustments to ensure that objects close to the camera and objects in the distance all have the same sharp focus, but more accurately, the hyperfocal distance is that point of focus where things are in focus from a point half way between you and the focal point all the way onward to infinity. Hyper-focal distance is more of a landscape photographer's concept. When shooting landscapes, I never use auto-focus.

Northern lights hotspots

Tony — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:59:16 +0000

The Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights is a light phenomenon that occurs as a result of solar winds reaching earth's outer atmosphere and burning different gases to give a range of different colours. The best place to see them would surely be from a very high viewpoint just outside earth's atmosphere. Here on earth however, we need to travel to cold countries near the point where you would see the midnight sun in the summer and very short days in the winter. Iceland is one of those places. It is just touched by the Arctic circle on its very north isle of Grimsey, but most of Iceland is good for northern lights.

Photography Basics – camera settings

Tony — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:40:35 +0000

On a DSLR there is a choice of settings that allow you to have different levels of control over the camera. First you need to consider what you want to do, or to be precise, what kind of result do you want to achieve?

Which DSRL should I buy?

Tony — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:28:07 +0000

This site is all about creating great images from a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex camera). So what should you look for if you are buying one?

The question is very pertinent as there are a lot of very good DSLRs on the market these days. Ten years ago, it wasn't even worth buying the best DSLR because the quality didn't compare to film. But in many ways, digital technology has surpassed film.