This is another image from the Ice Beach here in Iceland. The blue color comes from the use of daylight white balance and the fact that this was just before sunrise. When you shoot in deep shade, colors tend to go blue unless you adjust the white balance or the Kelvin temperature. Instead of eliminating the color bias, I left it alone because blue connotes cold -- and it was definitely cold. It was also very windy. The wind was actually ferocious. To stabilize the camera and tripod, I kept a downward pressure on it during the exposure and tried to block the camera as much as I could with my body. I used a 16-35mm wide angle lens for this shot, and my settings were f/22, 15 seconds, and 100 ISO. A 10-stop neutral density filter allowed the long exposure, and you can see that the extremely rough surf has been smoothed out. The sun broke the horizon a minute or two after I took this.
2 Comments
Mar 26, 2019, 4:43:43 PM
Bob Turner - This beach is a great stop for photographers. How are you able to focus with a 10 stop neutral density filter in reduced light.
Mar 26, 2019, 4:00:01 PM
Jim - Good question, Bob. I focused before I put the filter on. Once the filter was on I didn’t change the focus at all.