Gullfoss

This was my 4th visit to Gullfoss waterfall, Iceland... and at last the

gods of weather were magnanimous or even more than that.

Comments welcome!

Alain,you have approached these falls entirely different to my recent entry.The slow shutter, wide angle & graduation filter draws you in with addition of snow. Obviously not hand held.It is a remarkable place which you have captured it well.

A really beautiful result with very nice lighting, Alain!

great composition and fantastic work with light and colours.

BR Tore

Alain, beautiful image...Iceland must be wonderful...regards....David

In the thumbnail the whitewater and mist appear mushy.  This is best viewed larger to see the details within the whites.  I'm also wondering: did you also shoot this at faster shutter speeds?  I know that you prefer slow speeds and using a 10-stop, so I'm guessing perhaps not.  I have learned that large water falls often look better when shot faster (e.g. no slower than 1/4 sec, and sometimes 1/1000 to freeze them).  Now, having said that, I live only about 150km from Niagara Falls and I have been there many times.  The only shot I have that I like was at 1/2 second!

Thanks to all for your kind words!

John and Jeff: indeed, it was shot at a rather low shutter speed, 1/5. I have a few other shots with a faster speed (up to 1/20). There is a bit more structure and details in the whites, but the difference is anything but spectacular. Here the rather slow shutter speed renders the movement of the water on the left. But the ultimate argument is (unfortunately) another: the sky rapidly turned to something much more boring, making the 1/20 shot less interesting.

John: I took a few photos with the same perspective as your recent post. I'll see what I can do (light was worse than on the image above).

Jeff: I also took a few shots with the 10 stop filter. One of them is the result of a 161 sec exposure. Not sure that I will work on it, though.