At the latitude where I live, the sun barely rises above the horizon this time of year. During the day the sun rises to just under 10 degrees above the horizon. (If you hold your hand at arm's length and close one eye, the width of your fist covers about 10 degrees of your field of view.) Dawn and dusk stretches out in time and the light is soft and warm, yielding nice sunrises and sunsets.
Winter sunrise (1/360s @ f/5.6, 35mm, ISO 400)
It is wintertime, but with temperatures between 0°C and almost 10°C it feels a bit more like we are in early spring rather than midwinter. Normally temperatures would be below minus 5°C at this time of year. What little snow we've had so far this winter, melted soon after it arrived. But with temperatures varying as much as they do, you can find nice frost patterns as the one in this image. These patterns form as the water starts to freeze, in this case from a shallow body of water on top of older ice.
Frost patterns (1/180s @ f/5.6, 50mm, ISO200, 16x9 crop)
I was browsing through some old photos, and found myself returning to this image. The image is taken a couple of years ago, and it is taken in the Lofoten Islands. The weather was like this for almost 10 days in a row. Nice "holiday weather", but for photography it can be a bit too nice. On the other hand, perfect conditions at night for watching the aurora.
Sjøbakken, Haukland (0.2s @ f/11, 28mm equivalent, ISO 50)
Reflection, Lærdalsøyri (2,5s @ f/11, 35 mm equivalent, ISO 50)
Tree trunks (1/250s @ f/2, 75mm , ISO 400)
The old house (1/160s @ f/5.6, 35 mm equivalent, ISO125)
“Autumn leaves” is perhaps the jazz standard, composed by Joseph Kosma with lyrics by the French poet Jacques Prévert. Both audience and musicians seems to never tire of that song. And I guess those of us who live in a parts of the world where we are fortunate enough to experience the changing seasons never tire of the colourful autumn leaves.
Autumn leaves (1/90s @ f/4, 50mm, ISO 200)
Mirror Image II (1/1000s @ f/2.8, 50mm, ISO 200)
Autumn has finally started to make it’s mark. Leaves are changing colour, and the sky takes on a different shade of blue than just a month ago. It is tempting to turn all the controls all the way up to 11 in an attempt to convey the mood, at the risk, of course, of overcooking it completely and turning it into tasteless kitsch.
Mirror image, autumn mood (1/360s @ f/5.6, 50mm, ISO 200)
This image was shot the same day as the previous post, “Coastal Landscape” dated September 17, 2019. Same area and technique, but different subject and expression.
Coastal Landscape II (30s frame average, 60 frames 1/20s @ f/11, 35mm equivalent, ISO 64)
This long exposure is done with a technique where you average a series of frames with a more “normal” exposure to emulate a longer exposure. The final image is created with an average of your frames, and the image here from a series of frames over a 30 second period, each individual exposure at 1/20s. The resulting image here is from about 60 individual frames. Very convenient when it is done “in camera”.
Coastal Landscape (30s frame average, 60 frames 1/20s @ f/11, 35mm Equivalent, ISO 64)
If you like to travel and take photos, like I do, you may have heard comments like “You drove half way across the country to take a picture of that? You could have taken an image like that anywhere!” Good point, but guess what, the location for this image is just as much anywhere as, well, anywhere else.
Anywhere (0,1s @ f/5, 35mm equivalent, ISO 50, cropped to 40%)