Iceland & Faroe Islands

robert blu said:
I am very impressed by your colors and B&W tones, the play between strong light and shadow...it must have been not easy ti find the correct exposure in many of your photos, bravo, congrats!
robert
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Thanks Robert!


rhl-oregon said:
Wonderful to take this armchair journey so far and, as ever, a concentrated pleasure in taking in your splendid work.

Once this (second) journey of documentation is in the home stretch, I'd like to hear how you decided to meter and expose some of your favorite images on the different emulsions and cameras. I imagine I'm not the only one who'd enjoy that too ;-)
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Mainly I used my trusty Gossen Profisix SBC. All B&W (including infrared where I set the ISO 1, yes 1, sometimes even ISO 0.8).

Knowing the film is very important indeed, I've had many trial & error experiences with different films and I now mostly operate by mainly experience and with a little "gut-feeling" factor. It used to be vice-versa for me in the past.

For E6 slides I used Pentax 67ii internal TTL - it is very capable meter (unlike my older Pentax 67 with average meter only) - P67ii has intelligent, center-weighted and spot-meter available. I mostly use the intelligent since it's almost impossible to fool it, i.e. ice-berg shots show it, it doesn't over-expose them even on a slide while the background is very dark (average metering would overexpose the iceberg). Spot metering comes in handy too.

Some shots are with Fuji GA645i internal metering, but mostly shot Color Negatives & B&W with this camera and they aren't as exposure sensitive as slides or IR.



skopar steve said:
I've enjoyed your story and images very much. The color infrared shots remind me of scenes from the film Valhalla Rising.
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Cheers! Color infrared is otherworldly unreal indeed, in a very good way for me too. I bought them when they were normally priced but now I value them as pure gold, impossible or mighty expensive to find these days. I have few rolls left for those special occasions.


jkjod said:
I've always really enjoyed your images from the "drum roll scans" thread. But these are taking it to a whole other level, its as if we are taking the trip with you. These are by far some of my favorite images I have seen in some time.

I have always been interested in getting some kind of panoramic camera, but this has pretty much convinced me I need a Horizon 202 for when I travel.
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Kudos! Horizon 202 is nice, but be careful since all USSR/Russian equipment is like a lottery. You can get a lemon (brokes down or gives constant hassles) or get a decent one that works.

Mine broke down in Iceland trip too (and also broke down during Indonesian trip), but good thing about the Soviet design - you can repair it with a hammer, literally, with no irony factor involved - they are dead simple! I actually repaired it with being able to open it wife's nail grinder, one spring mechanism was loose and I re-tightened it, worked like a joy again.

But if you do get a lemon, sell it and buy another one IMHO, not worth the constant hassle.


pakeha said:
occasionally there is a subject thread here that is truly inspiring. This is one such thread.
Thank you
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Many thanks sir!

Margus
 
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Pearls of the Moonlight by tsiklonaut
 
Despite it being a lovely sight it also marked our first annoyance and boredom with tourist traps and we thought it was time to search for some proper isolation via a decent off-road dash to some place away from civilization.

There was Stjórnarfoss:

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Our destination was Laki or Lakagígar via the offroad F206 (the roads marked with “F” are considered “mountain roads”, and generally they have a warning plaque at the beginning which suggests that only 4x4 vehicles should use those roads). The craters of Laki is in fact a volcanic fissure in the south of Iceland, not far from the canyon of Eldgjá and the small village of Kirkjubæjarklaustur. Lakagígar is the correct name, as Laki mountain itself did not erupt as fissures opened up on each side of it. Lakagígar is part of a volcanic system centered on the Grímsvötn volcano and including the Þórðarhyrna volcano. It lies between the glaciers of Mýrdalsjökull and Vatnajökull, in an area of fissures that run from southwest to northeast.


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The system erupted over an eight-month period between 1783 and 1784 from the Laki fissure and the adjoining Grímsvötn volcano, pouring out an estimated 14 km3 (3.4 cu mi) of basalt lava and clouds of poisonous hydrofluoric acid and sulfur dioxide compounds that killed over 50% of Iceland's livestock population, leading to a famine which then killed approximately 25% of the island's human population.



The Row of Craters by tsiklonaut




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Great stuff - I like you choice film and the mood it conveys.

Faroe Islands definitely on my bucket list ( been to Iceland, Orkney , Fair Isle and the Shetlands )
 
Duane Pandorf said:
My son and I arrived to Reykjavik this morning and begin our 10 day self drive trip around the country tomorrow. Your photos have me very excited to get started!
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Great destination to go.

FrozenInTime said:
Great stuff - I like you choice film and the mood it conveys.

Faroe Islands definitely on my bucket list ( been to Iceland, Orkney , Fair Isle and the Shetlands )
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Cheers mate! I reckon the Faroes are more dramatic version of Shetlands.


RangerFinder said:
Beautiful work! Every time I start to lust over a new camera I look to your P67 photos to remind me what an amazing tool I already have.

Such lovely grain and tonality on these two, is this also the CHS 100 film? And what developer if I might also ask? Cheers.
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Thanks man! Yes, P67 is still my weapon of choice. Unbelievable job the Pentax designers and Asahi engineers did on this camera, it's built like an Abraham tank and works like an AK47 - nuclear bomb proof operation in every condition you can think of (minus the newer plasticky 67ii body though :D)

It's the older Adox CHS 100 Art film, should be very similar to newer CHS 100 emulsion though. I used Kodak D76 1+1 to develop those.

Margus
 
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