Landscape Photography - Exploring Remote Iceland
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- Last summer I spent a week exploring some of the most remote parts of Iceland's Highlands. In this video I look at creating images in less than perfect conditions, the thinking behind compositions, and the joy of discovering new places
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:37 The River Braids
5:44 Langisjor
12:41 Haifoss
15:32 Heading Home
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For this trip I was partnering with Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove, a local photographer and guide, who specialises in this kind of trip to the Highlands. He's also an excellent drone photographer and has produced an excellent book on capturing drone images, which you can find on his website jvn.photo
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Spectacular. I get lost in your photography.❤
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That crater shot is truly otherworldly. One of the best photographs I've ever seen. Period.
Thanks so much Christine 🙏
Maybe I'm nuts but when I visited Iceland I never really felt like getting the camera out. It's an amazing place to visit but everywhere I looked felt like it had been photographed a million times before. I enjoyed it more when I put the camera away and concentrated on the experience.
I can kind of understand that, there are a lot of places in Iceland along the south coast, the Golden Triangle and Snaefelsness that have been shot a million times before. It's one of the reasons I love the Highlands so much, you always feel like you're discovering new places and we went for days without seeing anyone else when we were out. With the exception of Haifoss, every location in the video was somewhere I'd never seen before, and hadn't seen photographed.
@@AndyMumford Might be worth having a look into the highlands if I go again 👍
Absolutely superb . thank's
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Brilliant!
Thanks so much
Thank you Andy
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The composition on your Landscapes always inspires me to go out. Amazing as always!!
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fantastic as always ❤️❤️❤️
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I always think how lucky people who can go and take a lot of beautiful pictures there ....
Congrats Andy ... your video is amazing ....
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Such a beautiful place. This place need atleast 3 weeks to explore and capture its beauty. And as always amazing pictures and videography.
Thanks so much. Honestly, I've spent so many weeks in the Highlands and barely feel like I've scratched the surface. There's so much to see there.
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Wow Andy, you got some epic shots in this video!!! I have GOT to get to Iceland before I cash the big ticket.
Thanks so much. You should certainly head to Iceland, it's an amazing place
Kind of crazy how many superb shots are displayed. Thank you for sharing.
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That was interesting 🙂👍👌
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Fantastic!
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A special place and some special photos. Love the 9 image stitch in particular and the abstract river shots.👍👍👍
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Another splendid video! What a joy watching it!
Thanks so much for the comment John, glad you enjoyed the video
Wowwww Andy! What an awesome video. Made me feel I was back there again. The best trip ever! Learned so much about composition, drone photography and of course the beautiful Iceland.
Thanks so much Surf. It was an amazing trip...putting the video together was a lot of fun, and as you know, there's quite a bit I missed out from the video (it would have been too long if I'd included everything). Really glad you enjoyed the trip, it was a fantastic experience and I really hope to have you and Nahid along on another adventure one day
Stunning landscape and amazing images Andy, Thanks for sharing
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Hi ANDY.. you are just such a great sicko!.. Wonderful report.. I love your adventures!.. AND Happy New Year!
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Quality video again Andy and always inspiring. Thank you.
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Just amazing images Andy. Thanks.
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Stunning landscape Andy, and a great video, definitely on the bucket list to visit
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Absolutely incredible, almost makes me want to get a drone - almost
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What a treat to the senses this video... I keep saying to my partner that going to one of your workshops is on my bucket list. Hopefully soon! 🤞
Thanks so much for the comment Kevin, glad you enjoyed the video. Hope to see you on a workshop someday.
Thanks Andy, your videos are always inspiring !
Thanks so much Luigi
Going on your adventure workshop is on my bucket list.
Thanks so much, I'd love to see you on a tour one day
Great, excellent trip.
hope you exploring a lot more of the highlands in the future!
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Great recap of an excellent trip. Looking forward to exploring a lot more of the highlands with you in the future!
Cheers Jeroen, it was a fantastic trip due to your knowledge and capability in the Highlands. Looking forward to going again this year
Thanks for sharing this much beauty ! I especially wanna go to the river with my drone now ! I strolled to Langisjór, Haifoss and of course Landmannalaugar summer of 2021. Especially Langisjor was such a serene place, no birds, no insects, just dead quiet because it was also not windy. I had the drone fly over the East ridge where you can see both the lake and the river on the other side of the mountain ridge, awesome !
Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video.
I'm curious where you launched your drone from to fly over the east ridge. I've been to the campsite in Langisjor, and hiked to the top of the mountain, and both are quite long way from that east ridge for a drone flight. Did you walk along the edge of the lake at the bottom of the mountain?
@@AndyMumford From the campsite, there's a road to a vantage point on this mountain ridge, close to Sveinstindur mountain hut. I hiked up the mountain to launch the drone
Iceland is incredible. Beautiful drone footage. Image at 14:16 is incredibly powerful. Wow ! For the rest it seems very difficult to find a good spot for landscapes (no elevation, difficult access). Must be a little frustrating. Nevertheless I really enjoyed the video. Have a great 2023 !
Thanks so much. The Highlands really do lack elevation, which is why a drone is really useful. It's the one place where I would never go without a drone as there's so much to shoot there.
All the best for 2023 to you too
Awesome stuff. Love your work Andy!
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it
I've probably watched your video 10 times already. Great job, Andy! My favorite photos are at 4:22 (River braid) and at 8:12. These are surreal beauties! Thank you - that is very motivating!
I also have an Air 2S and am struggling with panoramic photos at the moment 🥴. So a question about your pano at 11:05: Are you actually rotate the drone (with the left stick) ??? I assume you can also do this with the right stick (sideways flight), but it's more complicated for me)
Thanks for the comment, really glad you enjoyed the video. As for the drone, I always have the sticks at default configuration (although I change the gimbal tilt speed an decrease the speed in Cine mode). For panos I rotate the drone rather than yaw sideways as it’s much faster to position the composition this way
@@AndyMumford Thank you very much for your tips, Andi. I tried the panos
in a vineyard, that certainly wasn't ideal, this lines were too distored and therefore appeared unnatural. I will try it soon in a more suitable landscape !
Thanks for the great photo tips. New to drone photography. I have a trip to Lofoten next March and came across your videos. I've done one photo tour of Iceland with Arctic Exposure which was amazing but I'm dying to see the Highlands. Maybe I'll do a tour with you in the near future. cheers!
Thanks for the comment Lloyd, enjoy your trip to Lofoten in March. It's a wonderful place
The drone footage is just stunning Andy! I'm now planning a trip to Iceland in late August as your 2023 workshops are full. What would you suggest taking for Fuji lenses paired to the X-T5?
Hi John, thanks for the comment. It really depends which part of Iceland you'll be visiting. On the coast, along the south, the south east, the the Snaefelsness peninsula, then you'll need a wide angle like the 10-24mm, but in the Highlands you'll almost never use it. I'd say a telephoto is always essential, and I often want a lot of reach, so something like the 55-200 or 70-300 would be really useful. And I'd finish it off with a mid range, like the 16-55 or 16-80 just to be covered.
By the way, I've had a cancellation for the Highlands 2023 workshop, so there is now a space opened on that. Let me know if you're interested
Andy, thank you so much. I am taking another look at your 2023 schedule to see what may fit in with my time off. Worst case, I reserve a spot in '24 for Lofoten or the Dolomites. Best regards.
@@johnwilleyjr6814 That's great John. Let me know if it fits, or if you want me to add you to Lofoten or the Dolomites. Let me know by email though, or the contact list on the website, as a comment here can easily get lost.
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I absolutely love the 2 photos of the central black mountain with the other bleak layered mountains in the distance. Are prints of those available to purchase? Thanks
Thanks so much for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video. For prints I put together a collection of images each year, so later this year when I create my next collection one of those mountain images will certainly be there. I'll announce the next print collection in a newsletter
@@AndyMumford Thanks! Can't wait to see the collection.
So breathtakingly beautiful. Thanks for sharing these beautiful images and the amazing drone footage. I am planning a trip in Oktober to the west coast of Scotland and would like to travel light. I will bring along my Fuji xt-5 and Fujinon xf 10-24 mm F4. In addition I would also like to take a telephoto lens with me. Which one would me more useful do you think? The xf 56 mm f1.2 (which I already own) or the 55-200 mm zoom lens (which I am planning to buy for this trip)?
Thanks os much for the comment, glad you enjoyed the images. I would certainly recommend the 55-200mm lens as just a 56mm is a little short for a lot of telephoto images
Andy you should come to outback Australia, those roads you're on are highways by comparison 😂
Oh I know...I've been on far worse roads than this in Namibia
Fantastic shots with the drone. Really top notch work. Not sure that you need a medium format camera for photos considering the great images you are capturing with the drone. 🙂 Excellent video as usual.
Hey Tom, happy New Year to you. Glad you enjoyed the video. The Highlands are a place where it really pays to have a drone.
Hello Andy. Great video as always. I was curious what time of year this trip was taken. We are planning a trip to Iceland this year.
Thanks so much. This trip was in late August
Great summary of the trip, thanks for this new video at the start of the year to keep the motivation up!
I'm really interested in buying a drone to start taking pics from the air, do you still recommend the Air 2S over the Mini Pro 3?
Thanks so much for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video. For drones, I'd still say the Air 2S. The image quality is fantastic, and it has that extra bit of strength for dealing with wind etc over the Mini 3 Pro
Great work as usual, thanks Andy! one quick question, do you use the film simulation of Fuji cameras or always raw file then process them in PS?
Thanks so much, glad the video was useful. I always shoot in RAW and never use the film simulation.
I always have so much diffuculty finding the exact composition on a small screen compared to a camera eyepiece, do you have any tips for that Andy?:)
Not really sure, but if you find it easier to compose with the EVF than use that. I prefer to use it as well
As always, nice work, Andy!
BTW, your on-screen gps coordinates for the braided river location appears to have an error -- i.e., the coordinates 64.01 88' 29', -18.87 29' 54" are shown, around the video's --0:40-- mark. The latitude coordinate's minutes value is 88 but must be
Sorry for my post's strikethru's?!?! Trying again: BTW, your on-screen gps coordinates for the braided river location appears to have an error -- i.e., the coordinates 64.01 88' 29', 18.87 29' 54" are shown, around the video's 0:40 mark. The latitude coordinate's minutes value is 88 but must be
Hi Rick, glad you enjoyed the video. The river braids...I deliberately changed the gps coordinates. That spot isn't well known and the guide I work with makes a living from taking people there. Sharing a location like that affects his livelihood of guiding people to places that are not well known. It's also somewhere we take people on our workshops, and sharing a location like that makes it easy for another workshop to take people to the same place.
The other coordinates are all accurate though. They are well known locations.
How do you control your 100s? Self-timer? App? Second shooter..?
For images like this when it's too far away to do with a 10 second timer, I use the camera intervalometer. I set the camera up like you would a timelapse, just with different settings. So I'll set it to take a photo every 5 seconds starting in 10 seconds time. Then set it to take perhaps 10 images, so I know that after 10 seconds it's going to take an image every 5 seconds. This gives me plenty of time to get into the spot where I need to be, and then I know as long as I stand there for at least 5 seconds there'll be at least one frame with me in it.
Hi, Andy. Your videos really got me into photography and now I’m trying to pick up a camera. Which would be the best option from these two: X-T3 or X-S10?
The X-T3 is a better camera because of the weather sealing, twin slots and tougher build, but it really depends. If you shoot a lot of video, you might prefer the grip and flip around screen of the XS10. Likewise, if you shoot handled a lot and want stabilisation then go for the XS10
@@AndyMumford thanks for your reply! I decided to save some money and get X-T4 next month. Seems it has everything I would get in these two cameras and better:)
I shall visit Iceland in May and do not need to go to this location. Absolutely no intention to bring a drone.
Well, thanks for sharing that. Enjoy your trip, there's lots to see in Iceland however you shoot
Nice video. Nice pictures. Just wanted to say that this thing of yours to wherever possible put some dude in the frame to show the size of the landscape is kinda weird meanwhile and gets old. To my eyes it‘s annoying and doesn‘t add to the art. Just my 2 cents. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video. As for adding a figure to the composition, well, it's not weird at all and has been part of landscape art for as long as landscape have been being painted. See Casper David Friedrich's early 19th century masterpiece "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog
Nor is it something I do "wherever possible". It's a feature of around 1% of my portfolio work, and something I only do when I feel it brings something to the image. A figure is like any other compositional element to be included when it enhances the image, whether by giving balance to a focal point, creating depth, creating a mood (as is the case with Freidrich's painting) or bringing scale. Each of the images in this video with a figure are weaker without it. I should know, as I have all of them with and without a figure.
@@AndyMumford I've seen this stunning and breathtaking new video from beginning to end with mouth wide open, more than phantastic! Keep on going with your style...
Don't agree with the critics, it's almost "blasphemous". Ok, you are not God, but in a perspective of landscape photography very near in my eyes :-) ..just my 2 cents..