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Travelogues => Travel Diaries => Topic started by: Anthony on March 09, 2016, 11:21:22

Title: Icebergs
Post by: Anthony on March 09, 2016, 11:21:22

Here is a selection from my recent trip south.

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Post by: Anthony on March 09, 2016, 11:22:46

A few more.

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Post by: Jakov Minić on March 09, 2016, 11:34:30

Anthony, those turquoise blues look amazing!

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Post by: Erik Lund on March 09, 2016, 14:06:13

Just love the tones in the first images - Wow!

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Post by: Akira on March 09, 2016, 14:40:35

The iceberg shining in emerald green in #2 is amazing!  Other images are also worth appreciating.  Thanks for sharing!

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Post by: Frank Fremerey on March 09, 2016, 16:03:05

Colors and forms of 7909 and 7881 for me. Is that a Russian boat you travel on?

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Post by: Peter Connan on March 09, 2016, 18:28:21

Beautiful!

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Post by: Anthony on March 09, 2016, 20:58:39

Thank you all, I am glad you like them.

Frank, the ship was Russian, chartered to a Canadian company called One Ocean.  I have travelled with this company before and highly recommend them.  The crew of the ship are Russian, but the expedition leaders and guides are international.

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Post by: armando_m on March 09, 2016, 21:42:39

Gorgeous Ice scapes ! :)

colors in 1,2,3 are truly wonderful

Thanks for sharing these Anthony

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Post by: Anthony on March 09, 2016, 23:02:25

Thank you, Armando.  It was a surprise to discover how varied is the colour of icebergs.

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Post by: John Geerts on March 10, 2016, 10:06:38

Beautiful. The colours in #2 are really amazing.

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Post by: Jørgen Ramskov on March 10, 2016, 11:03:45

Wow, these are spectacular, particularly the first 3.

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Post by: Anthony on March 10, 2016, 22:28:52

John, Joergen, many thanks.

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Post by: golunvolo on March 14, 2016, 22:17:18

+1 to all of the above.

  6th one -first of the second post- is a natural formation? It is impressive how much it looks like one of the "easter island heads"

  Not jealous at all...

   Thanks for sharing it!

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Post by: Anirban Halder on March 15, 2016, 15:04:46

Beautiful photos Anthony. I'm amazed to see how different the colours can be under different conditions.
Was metering tricky under such circumstances?

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Post by: Anthony on March 15, 2016, 18:57:10

Golunvolo, thank you, the formation is natural.  Wind, snow and water sculpt extraordinary shapes, and I also though this one was reminiscent of an Easter Island head.

Anirban, thank you, the colours vary according to the light, but also as a result of events at the time of formation of the ice - the saltiness of the water is important, and also the salt can sometimes leave the ice.  They are much more complicated than I ever thought.

As for metering, Nikon matrix metering was surprisingly accurate, although sometimes I opened up the aperture a little.  There was a lot of trial and error!

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Post by: Anirban Halder on March 16, 2016, 06:08:37

Quote from: Anthony on March 15, 2016, 18:57:10

As for metering, Nikon matrix metering was surprisingly accurate, although sometimes I opened up the aperture a little.  There was a lot of trial and error!

Thanks for mentioning that Anthony. There was a time I ended up with grey-ish underexposed photos of snow covered land, when I relied on camera's metering (it wasn't nikon though).

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Post by: Anthony on March 16, 2016, 12:00:32

Anirban, there were three photography tutors on the ship, all of them skilled professionals.  Two used Nikon and one Canon.  They all agreed that the Nikon matrix system needed less exposure compensation for snow than the Canon system.  It was interesting that the Canon photographer agreed with this.

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Post by: Mongo on March 16, 2016, 12:21:48

some awesome images - Mongo would love to have gone there !

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Post by: Anthony on March 16, 2016, 19:43:12

Thank you Mongo.

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Post by: Frank Fremerey on March 17, 2016, 10:12:40

 Revisiting this thread I am even deeper impressed by the feelings these shots invoke. This is the best I can say about a shot: That it makes me feel I am there, that you as a pghotographer take me on a journey with my eyes and take my emotions with you. Masterful.

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Post by: Anthony on March 17, 2016, 16:53:40

Frank, thank you, that is high praise.

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Post by: Gary on April 06, 2016, 03:13:59

Wow, wow wow!!! What a great trip with photos equal to match!

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Post by: Anthony on April 06, 2016, 11:50:32

Thanks, Gary, I am glad you like them.