Norway - Two Lakes

Just before and after lunch, we photographed a couple of lakes - one in the shadow of the mountains and completely frozen, the other in full sunshine. I hoped for cloudier and snowy conditions but looks like it will remain sunny for our trip but very cold -8 in the van yesterday afternoon!

Norway - Vareid Rocks

Tuesday morning we spent the first part photographing the rocks at Vareid. Some of the party are using Tilt and shift lenses to get images in focus from back to front. As I don't have a T&S for my Fuji, I took 3 or 4 versions of each scene with the focus at front , middle and back and combined these with Zerene Stacker (first 4 images).  The Fisheye also gave good depth of field (last 5 images).

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.