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 1,5x3m 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.
You wonder what I’m currently doing?! This. Free hand free handed. Images taken with Sigmas 30mm 1.4 EX. Click on image to bring up a slightly bigger version. PS. Model is of course Liu Dong Yun aka Linn.
Remade three with better colors. Click under to see old article and old photos. Click photos for bigger size. Continue reading ‘Inner city village | 17 photos | Updated’
Sigma 30mm EX 1/2000 @ F5.6 – ISO400 (by mistake)Lightroom dump.
After a couple of days walking the 30mm I decided to visit one of the small studios that I used many times before. I had 28 pictures left in my camera (and no memory dump thingi with me) so we had to do the best we could with our precious time.Who are we?! It’s always been the question, and now also our theme. Is this us? We used the memory space with great care and love. One thing is for sure. My glasses are stronger then yours!Btw. By clicking one of the images you get a larger version. Not full, but large. And if you look carefully enough you might notice that focus is on the eye, but not on the face. Isn’t that kind of weird?! I’m sure there is some optical voodoo going on..
A couple of days ago I got my hands on the new 30mm 1.4 EX from Sigma. A lens that me myself and I have been looking forward to a lot. And now when I have it I must tell you, I’m sold, in love!It’s a well built, pretty small, good looking piece of glass that behaves as you which it would. (most of the time, more of that later) Here comes the first teaser image. A 100% crop taken with auto focus and @ F1.4. (Wide open)
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. Take me there!Link to edge sharpness test and my first studio shots: Take me there!
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.
Shot myself today (except last picture). with a 
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