Hiking in Norway

[Joost Bollens]

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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[Nasos Kosmas]

Very nice captures Joost 
My favourites are the Red ones

[Øivind Tøien]

+1, particularly the scenes with snow. Impressed Joost that you carried multiple IR bodies on such a hike!

[Thomas Stellwag]

no 2,3,4 are my favs, a really good series from a region I most probably will not see in reality

[Joost Bollens]

@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!

[Birna Rørslett]

Scenery looks familiar -- and so do the "red ones Nice trip.

[Fons Baerken]

I like them!

[Akira]

Nice IR landscapes.  Thank you for sharing!

[armando_m]

6 day hike ! and carrying 2 cameras

Wonderful photos, thanks for sharing them

[Bent Hjarbo]

Very nice images, just wondering why not a non converted camera?

[Birna Rørslett]

Perhaps he was in IR mode?? I have that happen often to myself.

[Joost Bollens]

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.

[Bent Hjarbo]

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.