lol @ Gwyn


(look in the fountians, at the mall)

Mac....."I use it for photographing loons on our lake. " that is no way to talk about your neighbours.

When you gonna post a few for us to look at?

I remembered this post, last night I was at a bbq and decided to get a shot or two for you...
have you had any chances to get more images? here's an example showing what I was talking about...





start out with a longish shutter speed 1/8 sec or more till you get some motionblur in the flames, dial down your aperture to keep the highlights, then add some fill flash to get some sharpness in the flames and some detial in the shadows.
no two fires are alike, so experiment!

I'm sure a DNA analysis would prove that to be true...I'm a true mongeral. A mutt. A Heintz 57.
interestingly there is more than one gene in my ancestors that is predisposed to partaking of the good stuffss...

I'm sure theres a drunk Scottish gene fisticuffing with a drunk Irish gene, over who gets dibbs on first punch on the English gene...

then there's the French Gene that hates them all.

and lots of others too...

there's that gene of aboriginal descent that's pretty sure the other genes are on his strand.
the black gene, that while I didn't get any rhythm, if you're gonna be part black, I got the right part..

I'm genetically predisposed to self-destruct!

Hey joe, got any images to show? Would love to see. Excellent tip about slow shutter speeds on the moving water!
Peter, there are two trains of thought on the wiskey to warm you up idea...

A) scientific school that says alcohol dehydrates you and may induce hypothermia....
B) hands on experience that says wiskey don't freeze, so if you get enough in your bloodstream, it should work as antifreeze. Plus a happy positive attitude is key to survuval in the worst of circumstances!

therefore I guess the people that subscribe to the first school of thought aren't your typical canadian drinkers...
around these parts, if you got wiskey, you're probably happy, and if your happy, it won't matter if your house is burning, just roast a marshmallow, and drink some wiskey... and enjoy the heat while you can. it can't burn forever.

I notice matt is too modest to reply here, but I'll say cheers and thank you for everything you've so generously give to us all.
Thank you. and cheers!

oh yeah, I almost forgot, When I say cool, try to remember I'm from Canada, and my my idea of cool may not be the same as yours.

Around here, when it gets so cold you can hear a clinking sound (like icecubes in a glass) coming from your pants, it means your You know Whats, are frozen again, and we call that cold!

fast lens, high iso, shoot 1/2 hour before sunset till you can't shoot no more.(eg iso 800 and f2.8 or faster lens). metering same as sunset, meter with spot, sky area just outside of the moon.. to start and bracket from there...
Don't trust your lcd screen (esp in the dark, as if it looks good on screen, you're probably 2 stops underexposed) turn noise reduction off in camera (look at noise ninja or photoshop in post to fix).

multiple exposures are worth trying.

check the lunar calander? you may have bright nights also!

Ps I've never been to iceland, but have worked in the Canadian arctic.

the weather will be unpredictable (but no where near as bad as the name "Iceland" implies)....
expect it to change hourly, and ten or more hours of beautiful light!
weather protect yur lenses (the * series lenses would be ideal) dress for cool windy days in layers.
bring lots of batteries for your camera, lots of memory cards, a tripod, and some graduated nd's and a polariser filter.
the 28mm will give you more resolution for enlargements, so be sure to use it lots.

read up on spot metering (a landscape photographers best friend) and take readings from the sky with the sun just outside the viewer, to get a good starting point for bracketing your exposures on those long drawn out sunsets!

be creative with your white balance settings!

chemical hand warmers in your gloves, (I like wool mitten/glove hybids, for the ability to pull the mitten end open and have bare finger tips to work with, plus wool stays warm when wet), pockets (where you'll keep spare batteries warm) and even if nescesary, taped to your camera) are useful.