Leif Hegdal

Hvaler – The perfect surroundings for art

29/08/2016 by hegdal

Yesterday I was in Hvaler in South Norway. Hvaler is a group of islands that are placed in the Oslo-fjord towards the open sea to Denmark. So it offers surroundings that are quite unique, at least to where I usually am. Whenever I am at places like that I wish I could quit my day-job and move into a cabin and spend the days creating art in the vastness of the nature. Although it is only 2 hours with the […]

Categories: fine-art, long exposure, nature • Tags: art, canon, clouds, fine art, nature, ocean, stillness

Retrospective 50 shoulder bag

14/07/2016 by hegdal

So now vacation time is over us and that means travel for many of us. If you travel with car it is no problem, the challenges arise when you need to pack a limited amount of things. So for my vacation this is the case I am flying to NYC, and will spend vacation in the Capital region of NY State. Since I fly economy I cannot take limitless of stuff with me. For a photographer what counts is to […]

Categories: gadgets, travel • Tags: camera, equipment, think tank, tips, travel, USA

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Skilled people have more luck?

07/07/2016 by hegdal

One big advantage with doing something regularly is that you in time get better because you know the techniques, because you are better prepared and because you know the surrounding landscape better. I have heard this expressed as that “skilled people have more luck” once. This evening I was again out, it was a good day, a mix of rain and sun, which means clouds, possible good lights, possible more. This evening it turned out to be a light rain […]

Categories: fine-art, long exposure, nature, night • Tags: art, canon, clouds, evening, fine art, fjord, landscape, lee filters, long exposure, movement, nature, oslo, out door, rocks, sunset, tripod

Storm is coming

05/07/2016 by hegdal

I am not really a fan of photos taken with a mobile camera. My biggest concern isn’t that it is a camera in everyones hand, but more the fact that the photos are not really that great unless they are presented at that screen or as a tiny web image. On the other hand is todays DSLR’s and mirrorless cameras totally overkill for most usage, you will never really need 20+ Megapixels for presenting a 72dpi photo in normal resolution […]

Categories: documentary • Tags: clouds, iphone, out door

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Most days life is grey

27/06/2016 by hegdal

Most days are exactly what you make them. There is nothing really remarkable happening. It is only you who have the opportunity to make them differentiate from other days. It is only you who can see the beauty in the day when most just see same old. It was a grey day. It was flat light, it was no particular waves, it was no particular wind, the clouds where high. My thought was to use the motion on the waves […]

Categories: creativity, long exposure • Tags: grey, landscape, nature, oslo, tripod

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Focus on process

26/06/2016 by hegdal

In this blog I have tried to focus on the process behind creating my visual expressions. I want to offer a bit deeper insight in to how I work. I see myself as an artist using photography as a medium to express what I want to express. In this lies the concept that taking the photos isn’t where the art starts. Art starts with inspiration and ideas. An idea gives me the ability to create a concept. With this in mind […]

Categories: creativity, fine-art, long exposure, nature, night • Tags: art, concept, fine art, process, sketch

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Panorama

03/04/2016 by hegdal

Last evening I was down at the beach at a place I like to go to. A peninsula called Bygdøy. On the south end you have some distanse to the horizon and can often view the sun going down. This day was rather dark. However as it is with clouded days there are always, or close to, cracks in the cloud layer where sun gets trough and with long exposure this spots or cracks get more visible. All photos here are […]

Categories: fine-art, long exposure, nature, night • Tags: bygdøy, canon, clouds, evening, expression, fine art, fjord, lee filters, long exposure, movement, nature, oslo, out door, tripod

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Streetphotography

30/03/2016 by hegdal

Not my best genere. I feel that if I take photos of people I invade their lives, even though the expectation of privacy should be rather slim out in the streets. As I also have a rather bulky and large camera rig I do not come off as a random tourist either, and I tend to get reactions; Some very positive and some negative. Well enough excuses. What street-photography is very useful for is to learn yourself to see interesting […]

Categories: documentary, travel • Tags: b&w, easter, street, USA

Baybysteps II

28/02/2016 by hegdal

Well I have inspired myself. I liked the video of simplicity I made last time. So I have made more, and they are much like the earlier once rather simple. This is on of the tide rising, and trough the film it rises just about an inch.

Categories: creativity, nature • Tags: bygdøy, evening, fjord, movement, nature, oslo, stream, sunset, tripod

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Inspired

25/02/2016 by hegdal

Yesterday I found a book in the store that I for once felt resonated with me. There are many books about photography, but I do not experience that to many of them focus on the kind of photography I do. This book does, it also added some cool ideas I will work with in the future. The book is called “Moodscapes” and is written by Rebekka Gudleifsdottir. The book gives a history of her photography, suggestions what she thinks […]

Categories: creativity, fine-art, nature • Tags: 500px, book, bygdøy, canon, inspiration, lee filters, moodscapes, oslo, sunset, tripod

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