The Swedish photographer Karin Linde happens to be in Kunming right now so we decided to have a little session together. We went to a near by park (for her, not for me) and she brought her mighty camera and me mine. (she also brought her boyfriend and my old pal Anna Hult) We had a great time, no sun (we where hoping for some nice morning light) but we manage to find some nice subjects anyhow. BTW, I went up 05:45!! That’s way too early to be normal.Camera used: Sigma SD10 Lens: Sigma 30mm 1.4
IMPORTANT! Here comes a warning! There is a butt among those 13 images. If you can’t handle that I suggest you don’t continue. If you like I could send you a butt-less zip with the other 12 images.
UPDATE! Downloads: I decided to give you these two images as raw image and developed tiffs. Right click and choose “download linked file” RAW files can be opened using Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 or Sigma Photo Pro.IMG03858.X3F | IMG03843.X3FIMG03858.tif | IMG03843.tif Continue reading ‘..but a butt! | 13 images’
About a week ago we (that would be me and Linn) went to a new print company that has specialized in making BIG screen prints. The screens are huge, as you can see on the above image. Max size is 1,5×3m and size doesn’t stop there. By stitching you can continue. I have 12 images from this little trip, and it shows a little of everything that this company does.Camera: Sigma SD10, Lens: Sigma 30mm 1.4 EXProcessed using Adobe Lightroom. Continue reading ‘A screen company | 12 images’
Studio session
Working with pearls again, this time in the studio. I asked my friend Jacob to help me. (holding reflector, and whatever) At one point I wanted to test the light and asked him to 
pose for me, he didn’t mind, and I asked him if he could maybe try one of the pearl thingis that we where shooting, he naturally refused at first but after some; hey it’s just a test talk, he tried it on.I took some pictures and asked if he maybe could take his t-shirt off, just for the sake of art. :) He laughed and said no, after a little while and a lot of talking he agreed and off it went.
And for me, after playing a little in lighroom these images just came out so beautiful. Of course you might be of another opinion. :) but I like them very much. All three images are more or less lightroom dumps and should be viewed in there original state. They’re so so detailed and has a very natural noise that I just love! click an image and a slightly bigger version will appear. Ask if you want original.Camera: Sigma SD10 Lens: Sigma 30mm EXDownload preset file for LightroomPut in “User - Library - Adobe Lightroom - Develop Presets”
Now you have the chance to prove yourself as the best ever post processer! All you need to do is downloading this RAW image. It’s named IMG02950.zip, but it’s not a zip. Just rename the last three letters to x3f. The final name should be IMG02950.X3F.What you need in order to process this digital negative is one of the following free softwares: Sigma Photo Pro 2.1 or Adobe Lightroom beta. Or if you happens to have Adobe Photoshop CS then you can use the built in “camera raw” tool. There are more, but me know nothing ’bout them.Over at dpreview there is a thread going on about this little competition. The price is more knowledge! How about that?! :DCamera used is a Sigma SD10 and the lens is a Sigma 30mm F1.4 EX.
Sigma 30mm EX 1/2000 @ F5.6 - ISO400 (by mistake)Lightroom dump.
Yesterday I was walking my 30mm 1.4 and in the middle of everything I saw that my fellow walker was visible in a mirror of a motorbike. Happy as I am about mirrors I took a quick snapshot and not realizing that the two persons sitting at the table behind the mirror was two good friends of mine. I got three for the price of one!
I was reading my RSS streams and came across this story at Wired news: “The entertainment industry claims it has file-sharing sites on the run. But Sweden-based torrent tracker The Pirate Bay says it isn’t going anywhere. And there’s a national movement behind the site” Read full story
Over at Legal threats against The Pirate Bay page You can read threatening mails from many of our well known giants such as Microsoft, Apple, DreamWorks, Sega, etc. All in their full glory. There is also humiliating responses of which is great fun to read.
Pirate bays legal adviser says in one letter: “And as we have explained the information contained in our servers is clearly not of the nature required of Swedish law, to be considered an infringement of intellectual property. This would be similar to outlawing a map outlining where to find the library or the local video-rental store.”
Now, what do you think about all this?! Should information be free?
I found a sharpening method that is very interesting and fun to play with. And it’s called “high pass sharpening” . This little movie (18MB) will show you how it works and what you can do with it.
Play High pass sharpening movie.
Download photo used on movie for your own practise here.
There is many test print targets out there and I’ve been searching to find the perfect one. None has really been great so I decided to make my own. This test-print is made for testing grey scale, CMYK as well as RGB possibilities on your printer.
Thanks to Günter Hördt, Thomas Mottle and Yi Ding I not only have a great test target for printers I also have great photos to look at. All photos are taken with Sigma cameras btw. This target is also a great way of testing different sharpening methods in order to get that great look out of your prints.
Image data:
File size 10.8MB | 8bit AdobeRGB | 287 x 184 mm @ 300Dpi | 3385 x 2173 pixels.
(click on image to download original TIFF, 10.8MB (re-uploaded, should work now)
Or right-click on link and select “download linked file” Don’t convert to CMYK before printing.
Download Color correction action file for Adobe Photoshop. Provided to you by Bob van Ooik. Unzip and load. It will do most of the work for you. Remember to always press OK after each dialog. Look at videos for further instructions.
Color correction is not always simple, and what I wanna show you is one way that I found (on the internet) works very good. If you have a monitor that isn’t calibrated then this method might save your day. All three movies shows the same thing, but with different scenes. I made them as a test.
Do this many times and soon you can do it on the fly and it’s a great way of at least check how your image could look like. And I know I should have sound and say something. I’ll try soon.
Play Part 1 (12.9MB - this one includes how to setup your curves tool correctly)
Play Part 2 (2.5MB - DivX test)
Play Part 3 (4.8MB - tricky indoor scen)
Hold down the shift key when setting numbered markers. You can only set 4. (one black, one white, two grey) Grey marker I set two because grey point is tricky and you might wanna test two spots.
Feedback please.
A little info about the “Hacked mac in 30 minutes” thingi that went out to press in 30 seconds. Read more about it here
The ZDnet article, and almost all of the coverage of it, failed to mention a very critical point: anyone who wished it was given a local account on the machine (which could be accessed via ssh). Yes, there are local privilege escalation vulnerabilities; likely some that are “unpublished”. But this machine was not hacked from the outside just by being on the Internet. It was hacked from within, by someone who was allowed to have a local account on the box. That is a huge distinction.
My mac is still a safe place. :)
Something happened to Pedersen PHOTOgraphic that I didn’t know. The article they wrote about me back in nov 2004 now shows up on Shutterbuggs website. Link.. So if you wanna enjoy the same article again with a new package, go ahead.
Published at March 7, 2006
in Movie.
Now it’s been some times since last post, and now I wanna make this blog a blog again.. so how about starting with two small movies, well, more a music video style thingi. Please comment on these two when you have time and patiens.
Version 1 (about 3min)
a finished piece based on Blond Readheads music.
Version 2 (59 seconds)
Version 2 remake, new faces added (52 seconds)
an ongoing project based on music from the French movie “Amelie of Montmartre”
Shot myself today (except last picture). with a Sigma 30mm, 1/160 @ F1.8 - ISO400 (except last image where Linn (min vapendragare) is the gulity shooter @ ISO100). I calibrated at the barbers chair and didn’t change anything in computer (not even in the last image).So here you have him. Straight out from camera with a blade thingi to his throat. Me.
My first impressions on image quality is as follows: sharp, saturated, contrasty and very very nice bokeh. There is some distortion but I’ll get back to that later. Right now I’ll use it for some up’n'coming projects and tell you more as time goes by.Photo has been processed using Adobe Lightroom beta 2, no sharpening applied in lightroom (does a very bad job) but normal amount applied in PS.Over at Dpreview I’ve posted some more images and thoughs. 
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