I recommend experimenting with a few different shutter speeds and pick your favorites later when viewing them on your computer. Longer shutter speeds result in a very blurry, frozen effect whereas shorter shutter speeds can still blur the water but preserve a little bit of the detail. How long you choose to leave the shutter opens depends on the amount of light available and what kind of effect you want to produce with the water flow.
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I set the ISO to 100 and experiment with shutter speeds from 0.5 seconds to 2 seconds (adjusting the aperture for proper exposure).
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To create the frozen waterfall effect, shoot in manual mode. It darkens the scene you are photographing, allowing you to shoot with a slower shutter speed.
On a bright day, you will also need a neutral density filter.Ī neutral density filter is like putting sunglasses on your camera. For help with planning your Iceland vacation, check out our main page: Or see other live updates here.To capture the blur of the moving water, you will need a tripod. A much better experience than our cake from a couple of days ago.įinally, at long last I got a picture of albino lupine: The owner showed us around, and we had a nice visit for the price of a slice of cake (900 krona, or $7.50 or so). We stopped at Bragginn, which advertises itself as an “Open clay studio and café.” I drove past it at first, because it looked so small.īut it turns out that most of the building is back behind it, underground! We had nice pieces of cake (chocolate cake and dandelion cake!) and checkout the clay studio: Later in the day we headed down toward Flúðir. (Is it true that the longer the gap between eruptions, the higher the water spout is?) If the weather is nice, you could easily spend an hour there watching.
But Strokkur is unique, and each eruption is different. Gullfoss is spectacular, but you may not spend much time there, especially if you’ve seen other waterfalls in Iceland. Here’s a shot of the first half second of an eruption: But the actual Geysir doesn’t erupt any more now the main draw is Strokkur, which spouts reliably every 4-10 minutes or so. The area is called Geysir, as is one of the hot water spouting spots. Next we headed about 15 minutes south to Geysir. You won’t find any amazing deals, or any kid’s meals, but for a major tourist attraction, we didn’t feel ripped off. (That’s 3 rolls for our 3 soups your bowl of lamb stew would come with 2 rolls total, I think? 1 per bowl.) The soup of the day (mushroom, in our case) was 1550 krona ($12-$13), also with a refill.
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For that, you get one free refill of a large bowl of soup, along with 2 rolls with butter: They always have Icelandic Lamb Stew, which costs 1950 krona ($15-$16). We had lunch in the Gullfoss Cafe, which was a pretty good option. Google maps handles this very well- Enter “Gullfoss Falls” to get to the lower parking area, or “Gullfoss Cafe” to get to the upper lot.Ī fairly long set of steps separates the two: There are actually two parking areas: the upper lot, which is much larger and is next to the visitor’s center and the lower lot, which gets you right to the falls. The end of the lower path has some natural stones to climb. Here’s a shot from the end of the lower path you can see in the picture above: That’s taken from the upper viewing area. Today we headed to two of the major attractions in Iceland, both part of the Golden Circle.
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