January 24, 2020 — Londrangar View Point, Snaefellsjökull Peninsula, Iceland
Beside the fact that it was his photography workshop in the first place, I have Gary Hart to thank for this one in another way. His blog post today* prompted me to go back and review my own version of the same scene, and when I did, I came across this shot made about fifteen minutes earlier.
I’d overlooked it because the RAW file seemed kind of bland. But this time I saw potential that I didn’t see the first dozen times I looked at it — and with a modest amount of work in DxO and nothing but a crop in Photoshop, here it is.
Taken in the context of my last few posts, are we seeing a theme here?
Be well. Do good. Create.
(Nikon D850, Tamron SP 24–70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD G2. ISO 64, 20 sec at f/16; 6-stop neutral density filter. RAW processing in DxO PhotoLab 3.2; Editing in Adobe Photoshop.)
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*He’s right. It was cold. The thermometer reading wasn’t so bad; it was the thirty mile-per-hour wind and the stinging snow that was the source of the big chill. But the best photography happens in the worst weather.
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Well, I’m very glad it didn’t…get away!
Peace…
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Thank you. I rescued it.
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🙂
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Your picture, coupled with your text, brought to mind one word: bleak.
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Kind of, yeah.
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Your horizons have broadened mine.
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Thank you very much. I must admit, I did emit a chuckle.
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Tonal, calm, absorbing, heavy, complex, enveloping, murky.. alive. Now THIS is art. Michael, this one stirs the soul. Thank you for sharing this frame. Wow!
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Wow. Thank you.
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I need to say again how much I appreciate that.
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No need.. Your initial reply spoke clearly enough, Michael. It’s an absolute beauty. Mind-bending, complex, immense! I love it! 🙏
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😊
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Calm and dramatic at the same time.
Excellent composition, Michael.
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Thank you very much.
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Gary Hart is a very inspiring photographer.
As you’ve been saying with these retrospective reprocessings, a little time and experience offer old files new life and thankfully so. I like both images, the earlier and the later, but of course today’s is a bit more Michael than the other…meaning the other is a fine image that I’d be proud to call my own, but this is more interpretive, expressive, and speaks of your vision more completely. And I disagree about it being bleak…seems more contemplative. 🙂
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Thanks very much, Steve. I am happier with this version. And, I think it could be bleak, moody, contemplative, calm according to, uh, mood. And I have to credit Gary Hart with helping me to get more serious about photography, although he doesn’t know it. I was following his blog for years before signing up to go to New Zealand with him in 2018.
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I bet he’d like to hear that. Teachers are funny that way.
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Actually, I have told him. In my last comment I should have said that he didn’t know at the time.
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