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   Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 17:43:10 JST Håkan Geijer

   The journey started in Lindesnes.

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     Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 17:56:18 JST Håkan Geijer

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     Mountains.

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     Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 18:10:05 JST Håkan Geijer

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     More mountains.

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     Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 18:19:41 JST Håkan Geijer

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     Further mountains

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     Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 18:34:45 JST Håkan Geijer

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     Additional mountains.

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     Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 18:47:43 JST Håkan Geijer

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     Yet more mountains.

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     NeonSnake (neonsnake@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 18:52:31 JST NeonSnake

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     @hakan_geijer Obvious like is obvious, but that sunset photo is stunning, as is the one with the fog. Loving the foreground interest on the latter.

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     NeonSnake (neonsnake@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 19:02:00 JST NeonSnake

     @hakan_geijer They're always the best shots!

     Golden rule of photography: No amount of getting up at 5am because sunrise is at 5.48am precisely, setting up yer tripod, focus point etc will *ever* trump your mate who went "that looks nice" and pulls his phone out.

     Your shots are really well composed

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     Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 19:02:31 JST Håkan Geijer

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     mountains_more_v3_FINAL(2).odt

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     Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 19:17:29 JST Håkan Geijer

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     jfc still more mountains fuuuuck

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     NeonSnake (neonsnake@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 19:21:50 JST NeonSnake

     @hakan_geijer Phones nowadays (and for several years tbf) have had enough physical technology in them to easily stand up against the decent cameras of yesteryear.

     Not just megapixels (basically sensor size), but the actual lenses are - within the bounds of physics - as good as a consumer grade digital camera.

     It's obviously *very* dependant on what type of photography you're doing, but landscape like this set of yours is very well within the reach of your phone, where you essentially want the whole photo to be in focus.

     And in all honesty, composition *always* trumps sharpness, depth of field, dynamic range and all the other technical bollocks anyway 😉

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     Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 19:30:24 JST Håkan Geijer

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     fjäll

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     Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 19:39:21 JST Håkan Geijer

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     mer fjäll

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     NeonSnake (neonsnake@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 19:45:22 JST NeonSnake

     @hakan_geijer All photos are biased 😉

     When I occasionally do my "on this day" sessions on here, I'm picking a multiple of 4 (for fedi posting reasons) from a bunch of photos that I took and decided were good enough to process and keep, that were themselves a subset of *every* photo I took. Like, I'm showing you 8 out of - sometimes - 500 or so, most of which went in the digital bin for being rubbish, and the others don't represent what I'm trying to show about (most recently) Amsterdam, say.

     I'd also very strongly encourage the idea that the "moment" is personal to you.

     Like: if you're taking a mountain shot and you feel warm, but the camera (on its settings) takes a "cold" shot, then use software to warm it back up until it represents what it *meant* to you at the time. Your eyes don't work the same way as the software in your camera, which is just trying to grab 50% gray, or whatever!

     In terms of equipment, this is always a tricky one - cameras are *bloody expensive*. As with anything, I'd always advise to start with something cheap in case it turns out to be a fad that you're not gonna keep up.

     I personally like Panasonics, but I've just looked up the price of a used TZ100 and it's 50% more than I think I bought mine for when new 😳

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     Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 19:48:13 JST Håkan Geijer

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     fjäll. igen.

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     Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 20:00:27 JST Håkan Geijer

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     It ended at the Nordkapp.

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     NeonSnake (neonsnake@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 20:22:20 JST NeonSnake

     @hakan_geijer Editing is a mindset; I used to enjoy editing over a coffee or a glass of something nice after a day out of shooting, but it's very much a "second stage", I started with film, so it was natural.

     In terms of equipment, I had a very old second hand-DLSR, and gradually moved down to mirror-less, and then to point-and-shoots. Hauling around lenses and bodies became less and less attractive to me.

     I'm currently rocking an LX-100 (second-hand) and the TZ-100 (new, at the time).

     These two very easily cover all my needs, whilst sitting in a bag, and can be charged from a USB port. A little bit of dicking about, and I can perform edits on my phone, or wait until I get home to do more major stuff. I'd say we're well past the point of needing a bag full of lenses, unless we're doing something professional.

     Second hand camera equipment isn't hard - there's a decent amount of "oh, shit they bought out the LX-200, I need that one instead!" types that you can pick up an LX-100 off for cheap (for example) - but, again, I'd always say, don't spend money on something unless you're bloody sure you'll use it!

     if it's something you think you might want to get into, then try to - if you can - grab a cheap camera and work with it for a few months, then maybe expand from there.

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     NeonSnake (neonsnake@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 21:49:10 JST NeonSnake

     @hakan_geijer For sure! Again, I would go back to "your photos are well composed"

     Beyond that, it's up to you, and I'd guess there's a bunch of us who are willing to help *if* you want to add that to your capacity - but if not, mate, that's some good shit!

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     Idzie (idzie@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 23:58:56 JST Idzie

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     @hakan_geijer absolutely stunning. I hope your trip was everything you hoped it would be!!