"Dark North"
This image is part of a series created during a photographic trip to Iceland.
This country is known as the land of fire and ice, but to me the most prominent characteristic was contrast. Hot volcanoes and geysers next to icy glaciers, white waves breaking on to black sand, high mountains and roaring waterfalls next to vast flat empty calm fields. These images were my attempt to capture the feeling of those contradictions so I shot in black and white with high contrast in mind and enhanced those features in post processing. I used long exposure whenever water was in the frame in order to let it “burn” the image with the white turbulent foam.
This particular image was shot with a 12mm lens on a crop sensor camera, f/8 and 30 seconds exposure with an additional 3 stop ND filter during the “golden hour”, just after the sunset.