Mølen is quite a special looking place. It is a sort of beach made of millions of round rocks that were dragged by ice from the mountains of Norway during the meltdown of the ice age. The lengthy process of getting the rocks here also shaped and polished them. The types of rock you can find here are of large variation, but they all share the same basic shape with few sharp corners if any. According to an information plate the area took shape around 300 million years ago when Norway was situated near Equator. Imagine that..
For any photographer this is a rewarding trip and I wish I could have spent even more time there today. The landscape is quite unique and on an overcast day like today, the light can be in your favor.
The images here were developed roughly by the same process. Because of the harsh skylight I duplicated the base layer twice and applied a mask for the highlight and shadow areas respectively. The shadow layer’s blend mode was set to “Lighten” and the highlight’s to “Multiply”. Then the base layer was duplicated once more and given a gaussian blur of 20px and that layer’s blend mode set to overlay. Image flattened and last exposure adjustments applied. The image at the top was left untouched from camera by the way. I wanted a totally honest one there to show you exactly how the place looks. EXIF was roughly the same for all images so I’ll include the data for the first one here:
EXIF, Model: NIKON D200
EXIF, Lens focal length: 10.0 mm
EXIF, Exposure time: 1/125 s
EXIF, ISO speed rating: 400EXIF, White balance: Cloudy
EXIF, Flash: Flash did not fire.
EXIF, Exposure program: Normal program
EXIF, Exposure method: Auto exposure
EXIF, Exposure bias: 0.0
EXIF, Metering mode: Pattern
EXIF, Date and time of original data generation: 2007:11:18 14:03:16
File Format: JPEG/JFIF Rotation corrected (EXIF tag)
