Day 60 to 61. 27th to 28th August. Selfoss, Iceland (Northeast).

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Selfoss and Dettifoss are accessible from the same carpark (so for a map, see the previous post).  There is a walking trail of twenty or thirty minutes to either of them though the trails go in different directions.   I took this image with the last of the light after photographing Dettifoss (previous post) and walking a way down the Selfoss trail.

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Next morning I got up before sunrise.  Here I was still some distance from the waterfall and the light was changing fast.

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Now getting closer, for an overall view.

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Though the light was getting brighter, my exposures were getting longer….

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There’s an interesting story behind this image for those who know a little about photography.  It is a 30 second exposure, Nikon D3s, 85mm f1.4 at f11, 1600ISO.  But when I was in Greenland, on one of the last days, on fumbling with camera settings under a camera rain cover, I inadvertently changed the specifications for saving files.  Instead of 16MP, I was saving files at 2.8MP, though at least they were TIFFs (should have been full-sized RAWs).  This affected 350 images out of about 6,500 for Spitsbergen, Greenland and Iceland.

I only discovered this a few weeks ago.  Last October, not having noticed I was working with a small file, I entered a print of this image into the Canberra Photographic Society monthly competition and received a score of 5 (out of 5).  I had actually cropped down somewhat in the sky for the print and the file size was in fact 2.2MB.  I did print on matte paper but even so….

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