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REYKJAVIK (Iceland)
The tour gave us the chance to enjoy many
of the most amazing things Iceland has to
offer – a great mixture of nature, history Ridge (6200 km)
and adventure.
We thoroughly enjoyed it!!
Jules Verne was inspired to write the classic
tale, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, the other one mounted on the helmet and
after a visit to the volcanoes of Iceland.
operated by a smart phone.
TEAM
Premjith Narayanan – Engineer by We had taken alongwth us the above camera
and lens attachments with tripods. But we
profession, Photography is a passion and soon realized that by taking photographs
publishes his photographs in BBC, Canon with tripod a lot of time would be consumed
and other popular travel & Nature & as the ground were uneven setting up the
photography magazines around the world tripods would be quite cumbersome. As
on a regular basis.
the time given was around half an hour we
Jathin Premjith – Age 18 wanted to cover the whole area as much as
possible.
Currently Doing Engineering in Mechanical
Branch. Has a passion for travelling, We went in different directions to get the
Photography & Music. 4 Times Young best views. To avoid shake we had to
Astronomy Photographer of the year increase the ISO settings to a range of 4000
awardee on a global basis.
– 6000 and started capturing the scenes at
wide angle. As we had cameras which could
Nithin Premjith – Age 14
Studying in 9 grade in Bahrain, Hobbies, be set up for low light photography easily,
th
the results came out to be quite good.
taking movies, Karate (brown belt etc.) and
travelling.
Info for the Public
A tour for the general public started in
CAMERAS and PHOTOGRAPHING INSIDE
THE VOLCANO June 2012 and continued through August.
it was decided then to offer the tour again in
Camera equipments used were all CANON
the summer of 2013 and 2014. Conditions
in Iceland make it impossible to operate the
Canon 1Dx with Canon 16-35mm F2.8 tour outside the summer season, from May
lens.
until September. As the area is classified
as highlands located 500 Metres above sea
Canon 5D MK III with Canon 16-35mm level, snow begins to set in from September
F2.8 lens.
itself with regular storms and unpredictable
weather. And so It simply wouldn’t be safe.
Canon 7D with Tokina 11-16mm F2.8 lens
2 GOPRO 3 . One mounted on a stand and
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