hi this is Attilio and about a month ago I went to Iceland where I made a video
which I will link down below in the description in response to that video
received a lot of questions about advices or commendations, so I decided to make
this video to give you my best 5 Iceland trick tips!
before going into the first tip, of course I want to tell you where I am. This is
beautiful Lake Moraine in Banff National Park in Canada, Alberta. So my very first
tip is very simple: Plan for extra time! Iceland is very beautiful and you will
make a lot more stops than what you had planned to fly your drone, to take an
extra photo, and you don't want to feel rushed, you don't want to skip a photo. So
plan for some extra time to get your destination! You will thank me.
Here's my second tip: Embrace the weather. in Iceland the weather changes multiple
times a day. So instead of searching for the perfect light or dodging bad weather
embrace the gloomy skies and the rain they might help you to get compelling
shots of Iceland, which might also represent the real mood of that land
nevertheless a very useful application that I found is MeteoEarth which will
give you an animation of the clouds movement and the precipitation in a
specific time and place that you can plan ahead your shot and be prepared to
what kind of weather you will find so check it out, it's free, you might like it
so I am in beautiful Emerald Lake now this is the Yoho National Park in
British Columbia, Canada and from here I'm going to give you my third: which is
Protect your gear! I mention the rain and also if it is not raining, there is a
very good chance that you might be standing by a waterfall there is
thousands of waterfall in Iceland and they're beautiful the only problem is
they're massive and together with the wind there will be a very good chance
that the mist will challenge your patience so my suggestion is to bring
with you plenty of lens and filter cleaning cloth, and if your camera is not
weather sealed, my recommendation is to buy a rain cover for your camera that in
my opinion is a very good little investment that will protect your gear
in Iceland!
number four he is my fourth tip: don't chase the
iconic photos! we all saw those iconic landmark
photographs from 500px or Instagram, and I'm sure that you want to take those image
too and there is nothing wrong with it I'm sure you want to have your Lightroom
catalog at Instagram feed with those images too, fine, but at the same time my
recommendation is to try to empty your brain and try to capture and explore for
yourself let your eye see your images
so here's my fifth and final tip: don't go with a photo tour! This might not be a
very popular one I know quite a few photographers that guide tours
photography tours in Iceland and they may not be very happy. but unless you're
willing to learn photography on location you don't need a photo guide in Iceland
Iceland is super safe and with a four by four you can go almost anywhere
so make your research online and plan your tour ahead, you will be so happy to
be at sunset alone in front of the Stokksnes Headland, rather than sharing
that moment with eight or twelve other photographers and tripods! These are my
tips. I hope you liked this video and hopefully you found some good
information for your trip to Iceland so like this video if you found some
helpful information and please subscribe to my channel to follow my next
explorations. Thank You!