Northwest Passage | Dominik Marczuk

Driftwood at the shore of Lake Otomińskie (Otomin, near Gdańsk, Poland) pointing northwest at a small isthmus. The other side of the lake is enshrouded in mist. The water is smoothed out thanks to a long exposure time.

I was hiking around the lake with a friend. My hope was to photograph the sunrise, but the weather conditions that day didn't allow anything of the kind. Instead, I had to focus on making the best of the morning mist. This particular image was a tough capture because I didn't have an ND1000 filter on me. To achieve a 10-second shutter speed (that's after adjusting for the Schwarzschild effect) that smoothed out the waves, I had to resort to my ND64 and to closing the aperture to f/16, where f/5.6 would likely suffice to have everything sharp front to back. The mental gymnastics with the exposure maths and the wet knees (I had to kneel on wet sand to look into the viewfinder) were worth it: the image easily turned out to be a portfolio shot!

The two stacked filters at 16 mm focal length produced a horrendous vignette, which I had to remove in post. The edits include a fair bit of precise dodging and burning in the fore- to midground, but besides that, very little has been done to the image.

Nikon F100 + Kodak Pro Image 100
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 16-35 mm f/4G
16 mm | 10 s | f/16 | ISO 100
Marumi Exus CPL
Marumi DHG Super ND64

Baba Yaga's Fence

Old Gods' Altar

Parallel Universe

Shattered Sceptre

Work in Progress

Jurassic Marshland

Victorious among the Fallen

Selective Memory

Two Shores, One Bridge II

Hanged and Quartered

Master/Apprentice

The Accusing Hand

As Above, So Below

Running in Circles

Old Year's Resolution

Surface Tension

Drawing the Line

The Black Standard

Let There Be Light

Leviathan's Rib

Between Two Worlds

A Silent Strike

The Gnarled Monarch

The Living Pillar

Archimedes' Screw

Orpheus' Ascent

All Things Must Come to Pass

Streaming Service

Where Błudnik Leads

Into the Static

Infrared Incantation

The Bark Knight

The Napping Spot

Midas' Daydream

Division Algorithm

The Crow’s Nest

The Fog of Peace

Tree of Enlightenment

Pining for Birches

Littorally Stoned

Reed Between the Lines

Where the Trees Dance

Between Pale and Dark

FLICKR-Roll-39-Frame-24

Eviction Notice

Gold and Copper

Pure Water Creek II

Slippery When Frozen

Dawn of Industry

Leaves and Let Flow

Stream of Unconsciousness

Northwest Passage

A Mist Opportunity

Mistful Thinking

Pure Water Creek

Secrets of the River

Autumnal Convergence

The Rocky Shore

Gold Behind the Fence

Bracken Senescence

Go Towards the Light

From Emerald to Copper

Oliwa Waterfall II

At the End of the Tunnel

As Summer Fades Away

Borovoi's Demesne

Devana's Hunting Grounds

Whispers of What Was

Mirror, Mirror on the Swamp

Concrete Cypher

The Reaper's Mirror

Pathway to Nawia

Where Nature Meets the Saw

Sunfire & Steel

Composing Decomposers

Obstacle Course

Passage into the Unknown

Where Whispers Linger

As Winter Recedes II

As Winter Recedes I

Invernal Wrinkles

And Winter Taketh Away

Crystalline Crest

Two Shores, One Bridge

One Autumn Dawn

Over the Stream

Lycoperdon Waltz

The Conversation

Death the Lifegiver

Creation in Decay

Ripe and Radiant

Jungle of Pomerania

Roots to Branches

Growing Emerald

Reaching Out for the Sun

Oliwa Waterfall

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Created on: Saturday 18 January 2025

Albums: Portfolio
Nature

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2025 Analogue camera: Nikon F100 Colour film: Kodak Pro Image 100 focal length: 16 mm format: 35 mm lens: AF-S Nikkor 16-35 mm 1:4 G ED

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