It took us some time to find the perfect spot to photograph the Chora (village) of Ios, one of the Cyclades, and we had to climb a stone wall, clamber amidst some spiny bushes and rocks, and stabilize our cameras in the face of strong winds, but finally we got the shot we had come for.
What I had in mind was an image that Elia Locardi had taken recently of the same place, but I wasn’t sure exactly where he had put his tripod down. In any case, I was looking to get a shot of the same scene, not to replicate exactly his one. As luck would have it, I ended up pretty much in the same place. How cool is that?
You can see Elias’s photograph in his review of the Fujifilm X-T2.
This image is the result of combining three different shots, taken with the Fujifilm X-E2 and the XF 16-55mm F2.8 lens at 0.8″, 1.5″, and 3″, ISO 200 and f/8. I combined the three images, as in my usual modus operandi, using the HDR feature of Adobe Lightroom 6.
Ios Chora, Cyclades, Greece
