The iconic Skógafoss waterfall in South Iceland.
I know the waterfall has been shot to death by everyone that's been there - it's not hard to miss! Some other folks frames I have seen are just extraordinary! However, I had a strong reason to revisit this one of mine. I went looking for it again after recently doing more LE work with my new/old lightweight walking camera - Fuji X-T1 Graphite edition.
The frame dates from September 2015 on our first visit to Iceland. We arrived at the waterfall well after sunset, there was only a little light and a little colour remaining in the sky. The LE I took back then left me really disappointed. It was dark, it was flat, it was really noisy in the shadows, the colour was all over the shop. I hated it and came very close to ditching it. I was not in love with the camera either...
Five years later and it seems that patience is indeed its own reward... I'm a little happier with it now, even if it is a moody, brooding frame but it is much closer to what I remember - the way the waterfall just hangs there in its chasm and dominates your senses. The remainder of the frame is OK now too - even the faint blush in the sky and those two blokes getting soaked.
One thing I can't fix is the OOF foreground - that was a whole other learning all about hyperfocal distance and f-stops...
Fuji X-T1, XF 18-55/2.8-4 R LM OIS, 5 secs at f/5, ISO 400 FL~21mm. Lee Seven5 10 stop ND.
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