My Favorite Alaska Landscape Photo

It has been longer than I intended between the time I mentioned that I would post my favorite landscape photo, and the time I actually did! Without further ado, here it is. The Seldovia Harbor during sunset. (click the photo to view it bigger if you are on my blog)

The reason I like this photo so much is because of the colors and the sunset. It doesn’t have quite as spectacular of a landscape as many I saw, but I was just excited about this one because I had been reading about long exposures on my trip, and I managed to use that new knowledge to catch a pretty neat photo! Aperature 3.8 200iso and a shutter speed of over 1 second.

Without leaving the shutter open for a looong time, the photo would look like the next photo. This wasn’t even a fast shutter, for the dark photo, it was 1/25 second with my max aperture of 3.8 and 200iso.

Other cameras, that are not SLRs will brag about their iso speed, but boosting iso is not the most graceful way to catch a scene like this. I did take a test shot with an iso speed of 1600 and a shutter of 1/13 and when compared to my long exposure at 200 iso this is the difference in color and noise. (ie unwanted graininess)