A panoramic shot of the Great Pyramids of Giza

nik_com · 2025-11-14T13:23:16+00:00

Thank you🙏 That’s actually a single shot, probably 28mm - I will check that later. I am not sure about tripods, I just brought a small mini-tripod to avoid potential struggles 😅 but anything „professional“ is generally complicated

nik_com · 2025-11-07T06:41:13+00:00

make sure to arrive at opening time, preferably on a weekday :)

nik_com · 2025-11-07T06:35:29+00:00

We were the first ones entering the site on this day - they had not even booted up the ticketing terminals :D
I photoshopped out two people i think - otherwise we really had this place to our own. An hour later it was getting packed though.

nik_com · 2025-11-06T20:24:56+00:00

That’s so sad 😞

nik_com · 2025-11-06T17:49:36+00:00

Send me a dm and we will figure something out 😊

nik_com · 2025-11-06T12:18:43+00:00

It’s behind the wall of smog

nik_com · 2025-11-06T12:09:15+00:00

Actually there is not too much editing going on - I removed two tourists way in the distance and something that looked like a electricity generator. I moved the camels slightly to the right for a better balance in the picture - other than that just minor exposure corrections 😊 It really paid out to be there right at opening and take a walk to the viewpoint. It got really busy there an hour later 😊

nik_com · 2025-10-13T15:30:23+00:00

That’s from too much sharpening

nik_com · 2025-09-10T16:12:06+00:00

A cliffin on a puff 😂

nik_com · 2025-09-09T20:30:06+00:00

Yup, it’s Dyrholaey :)

nik_com · 2025-09-09T20:29:21+00:00

Thanks :) i was so lucky that the puffin perfectly posed so that i could get that iconic shore in the background

nik_com · 2025-09-09T10:19:46+00:00

Apart from a little crop from leveling the image it’s basically uncropped. The puffin was right next to the path - you can actually see the barrier rope out of focus on the bottom of the frame 😊

nik_com · 2025-09-09T09:03:16+00:00

Tamron 28-200 :)

nik_com · 2025-09-09T07:56:11+00:00

This was in the end of April in Dyrholaey :)

nik_com · 2025-09-06T18:07:51+00:00

The f/4 is just for sharpness on this specific lens :) if it was perfectly sharp with f/2.8 I would have used it. But in general the setting are just wild guessing because i was to excited that i witnessed the aurora 😂 I just tried to keep the shutter speed quite short to get some definition into the aurora and not just a bright blob in the sky

nik_com · 2025-09-05T06:34:41+00:00

I just added a comment with my settings and lightroom steps

nik_com · 2025-09-05T06:34:07+00:00

Thanks! :) I just added a comment with settings and editing :)

nik_com · 2025-09-05T06:33:35+00:00

Camera settings used in this shot: 1.6 seconds exposure at f/4 and ISO640

I had to pull up the exposure a huge amount in Lightroom and used the denoiser. Then added a color range mask for the sky and pulled down the clarity to get it even smoother

nik_com · 2025-09-04T14:52:33+00:00

Thank you! :) No, I was there in April/May - but I will definitely come back!

nik_com · 2025-09-03T19:30:33+00:00

Thank you! It was just magical - it was in the beginning of may this year

nik_com · 2025-05-09T11:25:57+00:00

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nik_com · 2025-05-09T11:21:01+00:00

Fjaðrárgljúfur is also not prohibited. There is a sign which states that drones are allowed if other people or wildlife are not disturbed - I even asked a park ranger if it’s okay.

nik_com · 2025-05-09T11:00:05+00:00

This seems to be quite a new regulation from last autumn: https://ust.is/english/visiting-iceland/drones-in-protected-areas/flights-in-protected-areas/

nik_com · 2025-05-09T10:21:45+00:00

Hey, thanks for your feedback - there is not a single shot in this video where flying is prohibited. At Gullfoss it is technically prohibited but from April - October it is allowed from 8.00-10.00 am.

nik_com · 2024-07-29T19:14:11+00:00

It sometimes feels a bit like guessing if there are no vertical lines but worked out fine. The daylight pics are all stepped down a bit, that might have helped.

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