The Land of Sagas
by Basil Greber
Taken in northern Iceland while taking a break during a longer drive. Looking at the sharp peaks and the clouds, I was hoping that something like this would happen, but I still got lucky that I didn't have to wait for too long. During my wait, I also read an information panel explaining that building a high-voltage power line through these mountains was planned, but that these plans were met with criticisms from the locals. Looking at this picture, I somewhat understand why.
Thanks for looking & please let me know what you think!
Comments
13 commentsAn amazing image that has some timeless quality to it, like it was a slide from the 1950's. Especially with the normal view (which appears much darker...) has some natural vignetting, enhanced by the shadows in the corners and beams of light.
I'm not sure if it's simply from the clouds and atmosphere, but this comes across as a tad soft; but that's not necessarily a bad thing in these conditions. There's a terrific mood created.
If it were mine, I would see if I couldn't enhance those beams of light. I think there is great potential for some tweaking. I also am noticing some banding in the sky, I guess from jpg compression?
What a terrific moment you've captured!
Lon
Lon - yes, the banding is from compression. It's not present in my original file. It's really ugly - it seems that the kind of yellow-to-blue treatment I applied here is particularly prone to this. That's unfortunate, but difficult to change, I guess.
I'll check on your suggestions regarding enhancing the beams. I agree about the soft appearance, but checking in the full size image, it's in fact really sharp. What may lead to perceived softness are the soft beams, and some light effects around the mountain ridges. Best seen on the left edge of the needle - but these were really there, so I chose not to fumble with them.
Peter
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