Tag: Landscapephotography
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2025 Photography Milestones: New Gear, Techniques and a few favorite images.
This year has been quite a productive one. I have managed to capture a few images that have been in my head for some time. A couple of visits to Denmark, and a long awaited photography trip to London have contributed to that. But I have also managed to pull out a few keepers from…
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My new gear for handheld, improvised photography: Nikon Z7II with Nikkor Z 24-200mm.
Most of my images are made using a very slow, deliberate workflow: Meticulous planning, almost always shooting from a tripod and often using “slow gear” and techniques that takes time to set up and prepare (primes, tilt-shift lenses, manual exposure, bracketing etc). Everything to achieve ultimate technical quality. I have found that this workflow is…
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Photographing Denmark’s Jutland: A Scenic Adventure
I visited Jutland in Denmark for photography back in April 2015. Although this area lacks the spectacular mountain-ranges and waterfalls, it still has a lot to offer the landscape photographer. Just have a look at the YouTube videos from Mads Peter Iversen. I have planned to return ever since, and this summer the plans came…
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Laowa 12-24mm f5.6 on Hasselblad X2D
For a couple of years I have been playing with the idea of getting an ultrawide lens for my Hasselblad X2D. As much as I love my XCD 21, sometimes it just isn’t wide enough. Especially for the widest panoramas. I could always stitch a pano, but as discussed in my last post (“Ultrawide lenses…
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Ultrawide lenses for Hasselblad X?
For a long time, the widest native option in the Hasselblad X ecosystem was the excellent XCD 21mm f4. By now (dec 2024) the 20-35mm zoom has been released and is readily available. The 21mm now seems to be discontinued. 20mm on the 33x44mm medium format sensor gives an angle of view of about 108…
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My favorite images of 2024
At the start of this year, I promised myself that I would do everything to make 2024 the best year for my photography so far. Now, at the end of the year, it’s time to wrap things up and evaluate. Did I succeed? Nah, I don’t know if I captured my best images ever, but…
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Photographing Romsdalen in autumn. Misty Birches edition.
After four great days in Rondane, I decided to spend the last 2-3 available days further west. Romsdalen is mostly known for it’s mountains and waterfalls, but the forecast was grim with low clouds and rain. Not perfect conditions for mountainscapes. To my surprise, upon arrival in Åndalsnes in the afternoon, the weather was quite…
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Photographing Rondane, Norway. My annual photo-tour, 2024-edition.
Last year I made a post celebrating the 10-year anniversary of my annual mid-september visit to Rondane National Park. Fall-colors usually peak in mid-september, and it is always a pleasure to photograph colorful mountain-birches with snow-covered peaks as a backdrop. This year I might have been a week too late, as peak colors definitely was…
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Looking forward to autumn
Peak autumn is just around the corner. The high-season for every landscape-photographer! I kicked off this season with a few outings in my nearby woodlands, Bymarka in Trondheim. While nights are chilly, days are still sunny and warm. Perfect conditions for making some wonderful morning fog. This particular morning in the beginning of September I…
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Photographing the Algarve coastline
Algarve in Portugal arguably has one of the most beautiful and photogenic coastlines in the world. The dramatic warm-colored cliffs, in all different shapes and forms, give unlimited possibilities for seascape-photography. Algarve has been on my bucket-list for quite a few years, and was this years destination for our family’s summer-vacation. We chose to stay…
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Photographing spring in Tuscany
I have always loved to photographed pastoral, cultural landscapes. Old barns, winding roads and fields of flowers have a strong visual appeal to me, and bring feelings of times long gone. No wonder then, that Tuscany is one of my favorite areas to photograph. I have been fortunate to visit several times for photography and…
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A crisp December morning
Weather has been cold and clear here for the last 3-4 weeks. Fortunately, we got a modest dusting of snow early on, giving some light to the landscape. I have been out photographing a lot in this period. Sunrise is around 0930 am and sunset at 0230 pm. Between that, we have more or less…
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Frozen logs, sunrise
I visited this place three consecutive days earlier this november. The first morning, I fond the scene and started to plan the compositon. The second day, I was happy with the composition, but I was a tad too late and the light was too harsh. The third day I came there well ahead of sunrise…
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Netherlands, November 2023.
Netherlands has so much to offer the landscape-photographer. Although a small country, with no mountains and no waterfalls, both the coastline and the forests are world-class. Granted, I have a soft spot for beech-forests, but if that what you are after, Netherlands comes second to none. I recently returned from my 4th visit since 2018.…
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Finale!
Everyone that has followed my work for a while (hi mom!) probably know that I have a soft spot for photographing trees and woodlands. Of course, autumn is high-season. Every autumn I find myself browsing my favorite photography book, Intimations of Paradise by Christopher Burkett. His forest-work is wonderful and deeply inspiring. The quality of…
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PC Nikkor 28mm f3.5 shift-lens on Hasselblad X2D
The PC Nikkor 28mm f3.5 was made for shift on 35mm cameras and thus has a larger image-circle than regular full-frame lenses. But is the image circle large enough to cover the Hasselblad’s 33x44mm medium format sensor, and is there any room for movements? And how about image quality? Is this a viable alternative to…
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Tilt and Shift in Landscapephotography: will we see a dedicated solution for Hasselblad X?
The recent introduction of two tilt-shift lenses for the Fuji GFX-system actualizes the question of how to apply these techniques for us Hasselblad X-users. Will Hasselblad ever make a dedicated tilt-shift XCD-lens? Will we see an XTS, a version of the HTS-adapter? So far, we are left in the dark. But that doesn’t mean we…
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Rondane, Norway. Annual September trip, 2023
Every year, for the last ten years, I have visited Rondane National Park for fall colors. Foliage usually peaks around september 15-20th, but there’s a slight variation from year to year, and if you’re unlucky and get an early autumn storm, everything might be gone before peak colors are reached. Mid-september may sound early for…
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Northern Norway – summer of 2023
Well, summer is definitely over here in central Norway. Mornings are chilly and damp and evenings come noticeably earlier for every day. I haven’t been very active on this blog for the last couple of months due to summer holidays and different projects. But I have had time for some landscape photography in between. A…
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Romsdalen – June trip 2023
Every year I try to pay a visit to Romsdalen in june. The higher altitude roads are open and the rivers and waterfalls are raging. And the main tourist season is yet to begin. Mid-june is a great time to visit. This year, we had scouted out a few new areas to visit in addition…
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