Waterfalls photos in Dettifoss & Selfoss, Iceland

 

View along the chanel between 2 waterfalls

This is a very nice waterfalls to visit, there are two of them next to each other, Selfoss is on the upper stream, and Dettifoss is on the lower stream. Both of them are very gorgeous! However, taking photo of Dettifoss from the southen side was difficult because the strong water forced a lot of spray to get your equipment wet! I walked down to have a good look of Dettifoss by steps, my coat was getting wetter and wetter, but it's worth a visit because it gave me a good sense of the power of Dettifoss. Photo taking is possible if you have right kind of gear!

Long view of Selfoss

Because the waterfalls are so wide like this, it's a bit difficult to include the whole view, so using the wide angle is a must! But the setting of the shutter speed is very important too. When the shutter speed is slow, the water will look like a mist, if it's the effect you want, then go for it!

I like both effect, I like the mist and the details of the water! So I try to make it work like this! Having the mist on the back and the water stream on the front!

Close-up view of Selfoss

  

Since I love the movement of the water, so I had an exercise on the close-up capture of the water movement!

      

Later on, I was fascinated by the misty feeling of the waterfall in a close-up look, I took many photos at the same spot, chasing different form I could see from the view finder, using the manual focus because the auto focus mode is not very reliable in this situation! Again shutter speed needs to be fast to capture the form of the mist. The most troublesome thing was cleaning the lens, it gets water drops very quickly, just like getting rain on you. Specially pointing the camera away when the wind is blowing to you! It's like "shot-and-hide", sounds like a game, right?

Water movement and spray in Dettifoss

At the upstream, where the water is slower and calm, I found some patterns which a lot of texture, mud!

They look so much like Chinese painting to me, the left hand side one with the small round stone, it's my moonlight picture. With the effect of the mud, naturally sets on the river side, the circle pattern is where the water drops landed on, etc.

When you are hanging around in these places, keeps your eye up and down, you may find things that your like! And don't mess up the view may other people like.