On top of the snow
by Roel Wijtmans
It's amazing how much snow is still left over here! At this spot I was camping on top of one meter of snow.
This was originally intended as a color picture, but I found out (Google...) that the VR of this lens (Nikon 16-35 f/4) apparently gives some IR radiation which shows up on loooong exposures with higher ISO values.
Today I did some test with various lenses, and it really is this lens, which is causing problems (it's not light leakage!). So if you are planning to do night shots with this lens, watch out for this. Apparently, not all have it, and some start showing it after some time. But it doesn't show up on 'normal' exposures, like 30 secs or 1 minute (or less, of course). So I still love this lens!
In this case, turning the picture into B/W makes it impossible to see the red glow. And night pictures are always great as B/W since that's more how we see it.
Skuleskogen national park, Sweden, March 2013. 16 mm, 4 x 5 min, f/5.6, ISO 800
C&C welcome!
Roel
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5 commentsRoel
I like this in a way I may not be able to fully articulate; sort of how we are presented here with the incredible, universal scope of things, seen from our tiny perspective here on earth, and, more specifically, from the little tent on the snow emitting its barely visible glow. So, in that sense, I think it speaks to the existence, and luminance, of our small, but yet very special human consciousness on this tiny speck somewhere in the immensity of the universe.