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ƒ/5.6 | 1/60 | ISO200

There was a period about three years ago when everyone was obsessing about camera bokeh. I think a good photographer understands that it is not about how shallow a photograph can get, but how well you can layer that depth of field in the photograph. In the above photograph I wanted to focus the viewer’s attention on the drops of rain on the leaves and highlight the red of the plant. In order to achieve this, I opened the lens up a little bit more than was en vogue a few years ago so that the viewer would be disoriented by the blurriness of everything outside of the plant. As you can see, this still allows for the bokeh to shine at the top of the photograph, but still give you, as the viewer, a path for the eye to follow.

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ƒ/1.7 | 1/125 | ISO100

Double Rainbow

A little home experimentation while the rain pours here in Iceland. I was trying to create texture and a piece of art similar to what you would see from the later abstract expressionists.

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ƒ/5.6 | 1/20 | ISO400

Ellý

The band from the show Ellý posing on the stage just before they were to go on. The thing I’m trying to wrap my head around two years later is how I got away with such a slow shutter speed while still maintaining the crispness I want with when I’m shooting with my flash. Somehow someway. And I guess now I’ll have to experiment and see if I can’t recreate that.

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ƒ/4.0 | 1/60 | ISO100

Cemetery

The endless cycle. Life on repeat.

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ƒ/16 | 1/100 | ISO100

Scale

Being out on the glacier is totally hard to comprehend and messes with your sense of scale on a level that is only really possible to understand when you are actually in it. I tried to create an understanding of this scale here by stretching the frame to include my friends hiking around the ridge, as well as the climbers in the background, and the climbers in the middle with the rope leading to a climber not visible in the crevasse below.