Landscape photography in Tenerife

 In january I was in Tenerife - a place which offers al lot of opportunities for the landscape photographers : wonderfull beaches, lava fields, rocks, mountains, big waves, beautiful sunsets and sunrises.

The most important advantage of a small island is that both - sunset&sunrise - are accesible. It's easy to move from one side of the island to another. I booked my hotel in Playa de las Americas, so that I can have quick acces to both sides : east and west. To rent a car is a must in order to reach easily any place. 

Near Costa Adeje I found a nice beach for sunsets - Mirador Stone Pebble Beach. It has rocks in the water and the sun is in the perfect angle in january. 

A very nice place for sunsets is the road which goes up to Teide. From a high altitude (ex. 1800m) there are nice landscapes with the ocean and with the islands arround. 

For sunrise I went in the other side of the island. I looked for nearby places and I found  La Tejita beach and Punta de Los Abrigos. 

 A photo from La Tejita beach:

And near Punta de Los Abrigos, there is a spectacular rocky beach:

Playa de las America is not the ideal place for sunrise because it's on the west side, but even so, the morning light can be interesting:

 

Sometimes I use the fisheye lens to get curved images. Bellow image is a sunset done with an 180' fisheye on Playa de Fanabe:

Big waves can be nice. 

Some big waves at Playa del Castillo in Puerto de la Cruz :

I found big waves also at Almaciga and Benijo:

El Teide - the big volcano - it's also an important destination. From high altitude there are nice views, either with the big mountain, either arround, with the ocean and volcanic rocks. In january the big mountain is covered by snow.

Any place from Tenerife has a good photographic potential and can be interesting. 

I spent there only one week. Probably minimum three weeks are need it to explore all places. 

 

Surfing photography in Tenerife by Olympus 300mm F/4.0 & MC-20

Tenerife is one of the most attractive surfing destinations for Europe and a nice place for photography. It has a great variety of beaches, big waves and good light. 

The pictures bellow are done in Playa De Las Americas, Tenerife. The distance to the surfers was quite big - about 100 meters. So I decided to mount the teleconverter 2x (MC-20) on my Olympus 300mm F/4.0 in order to get close to the action. 

I used manual mode with AUTO-ISO, exposure time 1/2000s, the combo wide open - F/8.0, C-AF and a group of 25 active focus points on my Olympus E-M1 Mark II. 

 I got very good results and a suprising keeper rate higher than 90%. The very long focal length helped me to get a good framing. I thought using the teleconverter will be a wrong decision because it will affect focus and the image quality, but it was not the case. I am very happy about the results I got, MC-20 made a big difference bringing the scene very close.