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Reynisfjara, Iceland

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Location added by Buddhagamer1985

The information about this location have been automatically translated with Microsoft Translator.

Rank : 9.0 (average on 10 votes)

Coordinates : 63.404460, -19.045012 (Open in Google Maps)

Subjects : As main subjects are the puffins. You can take pictures from the beach, they throw themselves off the cliff and fly into the sea, where they're a little bit in the water for fishing and after returning in the cliff, but the parties are far apart, or you can take pictures from above the cliff, I highly recommend this option , where you can get close to them and, if you're lucky, make photos more interesting and, above all, it is closer to the subjects. The reef is beautiful and the beach has a particular black sand. How to photograph the landscape is not particularly photogenic (my personal taste), especially because that particular area of ??Iceland is famous for its constant rain, so the light for a picture landscaping is very bad. In contrast to the puffins constant rain "helps" to make special photos, for example, the puffins are wet and have the body covered with droplets.

Recommended equipment : As for the puffins me I photographed with a 55-300 mm, more than enough if you put over the cliff, where the puffins are close to the path that you can do on foot. Conversely, if you are shooting from the beach i mm focal are not enough. You have to have a tele pushed. If you want to make a photo scenic beach and the cliff it takes a grandangolo.Procurarsi a waterproof raincoats because of steady rain, and if you get a chance, something waterproof to protect the camera equipment, is the one in your backpack that what it is processing during the photo session.

Best months : There is not a better time, I went in late July-early August, I found light rain (a constant for that place). To see if there is snow in winter.

How to get there : Take Route 1 and take Þjóðvegur Reynishverfisvegur route 215 and go straight ahead until you reach a small parking lot. There is a path to do on foot that leads down into the black beach (where all the tourists, a few do not worry). Definitely to do a walk on the beach, but mostly I highly recommend to take a small path on the right, with respect to the main path leading to the beach, it is barely visible and hidden seeds to go into the cliff where you can see and photograph the puffins for more close. This path is beaten, marked by signs and stakes, but the beginning is not very visible.

Visits : Admission is free and there is no control. Even in the parking lot we were parked camper.

Notes : I reiterate to take the path that leads over the cliff to take pictures from as close as the puffins, take the main route from the car park, after about twenty meters on the right, part of this inconspicuous street.

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