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Travelogues => Travel Diaries => Topic started by: Joost Bollens on August 27, 2024, 22:03:07
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In the beginning of july, we did a 6 day hike from Dale to Vossevangen (Norway). As I had to carry stuff and food for 6 days in my backpack, there was not much room (nor courage) to bring a lot of photo gear. I however managed to bring my smaller DX cameras, a infrared converted D5500 (630nm) and a infrared converted D5300 (550nm), along with the 10-20mm af-p and the 18-55mm af-p .
Here some impressions of this rather beautiful hike.
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Very nice captures Joost :)
My favourites are the Red ones
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+1, particularly the scenes with snow. Impressed Joost that you carried multiple IR bodies on such a hike!
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no 2,3,4 are my favs, a really good series from a region I most probably will not see in reality
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@Nasos Kosmas : "My favourites are the Red ones", thanks, same goes for me, though not everybody in my inner circle seems to be convinved, probably some kind of an acquired taste?
@Øivind Tøien : "Impressed Joost that you carried multiple IR bodies on such a hike!": Once you are there, there is not much you can change...but if I were to go again, I wouldn't hesitate to do the same thing
@Thomas Stellwag: thanks Thomas, and indeed: there are so many beautiful spots on earth that we will probably never be able to visit, and, well, that s' ok!
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Scenery looks familiar -- and so do the "red ones :) Nice trip.
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I like them!
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Nice IR landscapes. Thank you for sharing!
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6 day hike ! and carrying 2 cameras
Wonderful photos, thanks for sharing them
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Very nice images, just wondering why not a non converted camera?
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Perhaps he was in IR mode?? I have that happen often to myself.
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Birna, Fons, Akira, Armando: thanks for the kind remarks!
Bent: "why not a non converted camera?" A reasonable question, indeed. I have two answers.
(1) My initial reasoning was, well, we will walk predominantly during daytime, and from experience, I know this is not the best time for landscape photography in the summer. On the other hand, these conditions are less of a problem for IR-camera's, so, let's go for this avenue.
(2) a week before departure, I reconsiderd and decided it woud be better to take one converted camera (the d5300 with a 550nm conversion, combined with a hoya r72 filter to have more options) and a non converted camera. But I did not have a nonconverted camera with a cropped sensor, and taking a full frame body was not really an option (heavier, different lenses, different batteries,...), and therefore I bought a cheap d3400 on the internet. But alas, this camera arrived during the day I departed early in the morning for Bergen, so I missed it.
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Birna, Fons, Akira, Armando: thanks for the kind remarks!
Bent: "why not a non converted camera?" A reasonable question, indeed. I have two answers.
(1) My initial reasoning was, well, we will walk predominantly during daytime, and from experience, I know this is not the best time for landscape photography in the summer. On the other hand, these conditions are less of a problem for IR-camera's, so, let's go for this avenue.
(2) a week before departure, I reconsiderd and decided it woud be better to take one converted camera (the d5300 with a 550nm conversion, combined with a hoya r72 filter to have more options) and a non converted camera. But I did not have a nonconverted camera with a cropped sensor, and taking a full frame body was not really an option (heavier, different lenses, different batteries,...), and therefore I bought a cheap d3400 on the internet. But alas, this camera arrived during the day I departed early in the morning for Bergen, so I missed it.
OK, I understand. But your results are very good.
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Very nice and colorful IR images!
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Lovely series, Joost. Great landscape.
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Erik & John, thanks!
Here a block in a (seemingly) unstable equilibrium
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A truly erratic boulder.
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Lovely series, Joost. Great landscape.
Also my opinion. Excellent!
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A truly erratic boulder.
For those not familiar with the term 'erratic boulder', it is a rock that has been shaped and moved by the glaciers of the Ice Age, and left standing in the oddest of positions when the ice retreated. One sees them everywhere in the Scandinavian mountains, strewn erratically over the landscape.
This sample was a nice illustration of what we call 'wiggling stones'.