Where to start with our trip to Iceland. Well, it was magical, mysterious and takes your breath away at every opportunity it can. Chris and I hired a car, became adventures and travelled around the entire island in 9 days, and what a journey it was. We battled rain, wind, and hard terrain to reach each location, and when we thought the weather and tiredness couldn’t get any worse the sun appeared and the most amazing landscape revealed itself!

The 20 hours of light gave us more than enough time to explore Iceland to the full, and a long day driving and hiking makes for a hungry couple. The food was amazing and very expensive, however, after 7 days of lunching on cheese and crackers in the car, the evening meals were a welcome relief! Check out our Vblog to see the full 9-day trip which includes the most amazing whale watching experience.

Chris and I have bought a new plaything, the Mavic pro, and what fun we had on our first flight. I am still in the need of some serious practice to be able to capture the mood we would like for our Iceland trip (watch this space). However, after making sure I don’t take down a helicopter or mow down any birds, I was starting to get the hang of it. 

We did change a few setting within the drone but while editing the video we realised we still need to make a few tweaks to get the feel and look we require. On this occasion, because we had no ND filters, still in the post. We shot at 1/400 sec, ISO 100 and style was set to standard. 

The images came out great, on this occasion we shot JPGs, they are between 5 to 7mp, 4000x3000 pixels, they do look a little over sharpened, which can all be changed in post-production. Next time we will shoot RAW to see the difference.

Check out our video!

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