Montenegro Rijeka Crnojevica River Bend, Skadar Lake

Hey dear Stef, now I am jealous. That's such an amazing area around there. I got there by car from above, driving that very narrow road. In general I would say yes, it's possible to get there by bike since there is a road you will be able to drive. I am not sure though how safe this is, since some of the roads are really narrow. As far as I know is the road beyond the spot a little bit wider, but I don't know how much traffic there is. Maybe there is a bus station nearby and you walk the rest...? Whatever you do, please take care and have a great time in this unique region in Montenegro!

Hi Manuel, I got someone who wants to bring me to the view this evening by car. Thanks for the information. Greetings, Stef

Hey Sabrina, thank you for your feedback. I guess I should write an article about that topic, because this question is often asked and the answer is always the same: ISO100 + f9.0 and the exposure time depends on the light situation. In my case it was 1/40 sec for the scene itself and I guess around 4 minutes for the sky. I used a 10 stop ND filter, to be able to expose the image as long as I could and set the ISO to 50, which is possible for some cameras. Afterwards I composed one image out of these 2 photos and reduced the color grain in the sky, because that happens if you expose this long quite quickly. Until here, the answer will be the same for nearly every image, so what is more important in my opinion is the question about "is it a full frame camera" and "which focal length did you use?". Because these 2 questions are the only "limiting" factor to recreate the image, because you would have to stack the images for a panorama, which is fine of course, but takes a lot of effort. I used a full frame camera with 16mm by the way :-) I will try to explain why these questions are more important in an article soon I guess. Let me know if that helped you and feel free to answer if you want more details! Manuel

Thanks for the detailed explanation, Manuel. :) I have never composed such a picture by layering two pics together. Until now I am only using my POL- & ND-filters, stativ. My Lightroom skills are very poor. :D

You definitely need Photoshop or any comparable tool for this though, Lightroom is usually not enough. But it's definitely worth it to work on the post processing skills, especially if you are using filters. The only filters that might not need post processing are polarizers or graduated ND filters, which I wouldn't recommend for scenes with high mountains because they have the bad side effect, that they darken the top of the mountains as well. For this scene they might work though, because nothing is standing out too much.

So first I will try to make a nice picture with the stuff, I have. Thanks for all your explanations!

To be honest I would do it the other way around or at least that's what I am always doing: I know which exact exposures I need to get the final photo I want because I already know which parts of the images I will combine in post processing. The same is true for focus stacking and all the other techniques and therefore it's important to know which photos you need to take to get a great result in the end. I am never changing the scenes or using a completely different sky, I am only taking multiple shots from the exact same spot to combine them later to achieve the result I imagine while standing there and enjoying the view. :-)