Norway - Myrland Peninsular

The sun came out briefly on Monday afternoon giving different light to work with. Had fun with the 8mm Fish-eye - needs a bit more correction than I can do in Lightroom Raw. A bit of a play with B/W - will look forward to processing in Silver Efex when back. 

 

Norway - Haukland Beach

As with my last trip to Lofotens, our first photographic site was Haukland Beach. These are a mixture of wide angle (10-24) and Fish-eye (8mm) images - the more instense the colour, the longer the exposure with longest 30 secs. The upper beach was very icy so stayed clear of this after Jane's experience 3 years ago.

Walk Around Leknes - Playing with Colour

As there were still a couple of hours of daylight left yesterday, I took a walk out of Leknes to reacquaint myself with the wonderful colours that the Lofoten landscapes offer. Not really a sunset but the strip of yellow added another hue to the scene.

Aerial Images Oslo to Bodo and Bodo to Leknes

As soon as we left Oslo the cloud thinned and we had wonderful views of the Fjords and mountains below on the way to Bodo. It was cloudier from Bodo to Leknes but some great water colours as we approached the Lofoten Islands. 

Stacked Panorama from Lofoten Islands

I have redone this vertical panorama using PTGui which has done an excellent job aligning the images compared with Photoshop (http://pin-sharp.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/a-lofoten-islands-norway.html). I have held back on the colours to give more the feel of a soft Arctic afternoon sky. Not sure this will be the final image - still a bit of chromatic aberration to deal with from the shift lens giving a bit of a light halo on the mountain edge. I will try a horizontal panorama or two from the trip before returning to this one

Å, Lofoten Islands, Norway

This image is from the very tip of the Lofoten islands, a place called Å, being the last letter of the Norwegian alphabet. The image is a vertical panorama, photomerged in Photoshop. It comprises four images using the shift lens in raised and lower position and with two images for the central position focusing on the foreground and background, respectively. The images have not quite aligned in Photoshop - I will need to redo at some stage more carefully or use a better merge software - any suggestions.

Oslo

 We spent the final night of our trip in the Comfort Hotel Express Central Station in a balcony room on the top floor (an excellent budget hotel). This was the view in the morning - clear skies so we decided on a trip to Vigeland Sculpture Park as we had heard so much about it. The unique sculpture park is the life work of the sculptor Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943) with more than 200 sculptures in bronze, granite and cast iron.  Certainly an amazing location though I found some of the statues (especially those on the bridge) quite disturbing.  I have chosen some from the granite Monolith platform and from the bronze Wheel of Life.