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Shooting Goðafoss: Erez Marom takes us behind the picture

Jul 13, 2013 at 16:00:22 GMT
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In the second in a series of articles, landscape photographer Erez Marom takes us through the process of getting his striking shot of Goðafoss - the 'waterfall of the gods' in Northern Iceland. As well as gear choices, Marom explains his compositional approach, and the software techniques that he used to get the final result. Click the links below to read the full story. 

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Total comments: 10
cvye
By cvye (3 months ago)

Dodging and burning has been done since Ansel Adams and earlier. And yet to me, selective processing to PARTS of a photographic image strikes me as dishonest - you just didn't have the light you wanted, too bad. Why not just paint? Just my opinion.

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Erez Marom
By Erez Marom (3 months ago)

I seriously hope you're kidding!

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dutch3dmaster
By dutch3dmaster (3 months ago)

Photography is art. You can manipulate as much as you want to create your personal reality. Just "click-clack" does not capture the emotions you had when being at the scene. My comment to this picture is: Dear Erez, you forgot to "delete" that ass with his tripod in the background! Really anoying.

Having been there myself several times I have had to "remove" quite some disturbing asses :-)

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jglaser757
By jglaser757 (3 months ago)

Your basically calling artist that create photographs with PP as dishonest. Where do u draw the line then. Using ND filters would also be considered "dishonest" There is no way for a camera to capture what one sees with the naked eye. The camera does not have the dynamic range to capture dark foregrounds and light backgrounds without some type of PP. Impossible!!

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Five Piece
By Five Piece (3 months ago)

Erez: Odd how these "Experts" who know how to take a "Real" photograph never seem have any examples in their galleries? I worked some from our trip and posted, maybe some feedback if you have a moment? All I know is I was lucky to actually be at these incredible places, and love some of the captures I got, and am improving all the time with practice and experience (and more capable equipment). I enjoy them that is all the matters. If one of these "Experts" does not like them, then hey, they can feel perfectly free to... well take a guess. If you can bring some of this beauty into someones life with your photos, you have done well. (My mom likes them, anyway...)

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Jákup
By Jákup (3 months ago)

The correct name is "Góðafoss"

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Jákup
By Jákup (3 months ago)

Beautiful picture btw

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Gylfi Magnusson
By Gylfi Magnusson (3 months ago)

No, it is Goðafoss.

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dutch3dmaster
By dutch3dmaster (3 months ago)

Well, I guess it was difficult to read because the name plate was frozen over :-)

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mehran langari
By mehran langari (3 months ago)

nice shooting hooray

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Total comments: 10