Archive for August, 2007

Up and running!

Published at August 31, 2007 in photography. 12 Comments

So what do you guys feel?! Maybe you could download some Raw Packages, some full size images, maybe watch a movie or something and give me some feedback on speed.

It feels great from my side of the fence, that’s for sure. I currently have 198GB of free space! :D
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Another shot from same time and place as the others. Foveon brings reality to the screen in such a fascinating way. If you’re the owner of Nikon / Canon and you feel you can show something that looks “real” I’d love to see. Add a comment with a link. Thanks.

Sunset in Foveon colors :D

Published at August 28, 2007 in photography and portrait. 3 Comments

This weekend Bengt Werner called me and said he wanted to take some sunset photos and asked if I might wanna come. Sure thing! Sunsets is not exactly my thing so needed the training. :) It was a beautiful evening and Linn took a bath and I wanted to join but time was running out. :D Air was warm as long as the sun stayed above water. So here is: Swedish sunset in Foveon colors!

Camera: SD14 Lens: 12-24 with grad filter
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Changing web-space provider

Published at August 27, 2007 in photography. 6 Comments

Not sure if this will create problems. It might. Moving from one.com to dreamhost.com.

Visiting Per Bäck | Art of Macro

Published at August 27, 2007 in 30mm, high iso, photography and sd14. 0 Comments

Per Bäck photography

Per Bäck photographyPer Bäck photographyA couple of weeks ago a senior named Per Bäck and his lovely wife comes to my garden and shared a cup of coffee, they’re both young looking so I was very surprised when they told me they’re both a bit over 80 - they had this look and way that told me that they had something more - something to teach. (I think they saw the same thing, but other way around - you know hopeless case sort of thing) While talking we realize that we have an interest in common and that is the love of photography. (I like to think I saw it in their eyes).

Per told me that he’s been taking photos of flowers and that his wife would look them up in fauna-pedias etc. Sometimes they would search for a special rare something or do experiment to find out how they work.

See below image showing this small little thing that is said to find its way on animal hair and move on - Per made this experiment by using his wifes hair and see if it worked as planned. :)

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He used Yashicas and lot’s of extension tubes and flip-floped lenses and homemade focus assist holder he was able to take something like 10:1. Quite amazing and very difficult. He said he sometimes had to work an hour only to get focus right for ONE single shot.

Per Bäck photography

Above picture: With a 2x extension tube + 200mm lens + flip-flopped 50mm lens + you get terrible shutter speeds and VERY very small part in focus. very shallow DOF.

Per Bäck photographyIt was terribly hard to focus with the focus ring alone so he built his own focus assistant. A beautiful wood + Plexiglas creation to support his work.

After being at his home in Alingsås - drinking coffee and eating delicious sandwiches I have this urge to take macros. Strange huh? Not very. Problem is that I don’t have the equipment (read lenses) nor the full knowledge how to pull it together in order to get closer than my current macros says and that’s only 1:1 - pretty far from 10:1. Any good inputs from you guys out there?! Is there any possibility to use Yashica lenses on a SD camera with Pentax converter? They’re not screw mount or anything.

Per Bäck photography

All pictures in this article is taken with SD14 using Sigma 30mm lens. ISO400 used most of the time. To see two more photos of cameras and flowers:

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Hammarkullen - suburbia.

Published at August 24, 2007 in 30mm, portrait and sd14. 9 Comments

Today I went together with the Finnish artist Otto to Hammarkullen - Purpose, to find out what type of questions you should have for a “svenskhetstest” swedishness test. I filmed and took photos. We had a great time and we’ll continue tomorrow but tonight I wanna show you some shots. click to bigger.

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XiaoGang and Maria wedding pictures

Published at August 19, 2007 in 12-24, 30mm, 70mm, Adobe Lightroom, full size, portrait, sd14 and wedding. 18 Comments


Click above picture to get full size view. Lens: 12-24 @12mm with some plastic in front of the lens.

[edit, text updated #2] We had a great time at the Wedding and I shot something like 700 photos - 83 of them are now published. Their full names was Zeng Xiao Gang and Maria Ådahl - the new name is unknown. [EDIT: Putt Mr and Mrs before, no other changes are made] :D I was too busy taking pictures to listen. Maria, maybe you could add a comment about it?! These pictures will now find its way into a picture book.

click for all 83The black corners a due to a filter thread that I use sometimes with my wide angles. (I got it very recently) It’s something that could be described as a “sky saver” a faded one stop saving plastic. I felt very happy about using it because it gave me the feeling of 6×6 (you can easily see the black left / right frame on some pictures). It’s much more fun to balance the picture this way (and I got more powerful skies at the same time).

I still wonder why there isn’t any 35mm digital SLR’s that has a square image. That would be so nice! You would never have to think in terms of landscape / portrait any longer. Just like in the good old days!

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Painting colors in air

Published at August 15, 2007 in 12-24, 120-300, 30mm, 50mm, portrait and sd14. 9 Comments

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30s of my home - this was pretty late. F11 - can you see my sister Emmy? She came in the middle and… Oh, the strong yellowish tone comes from streetlight behind me. I’m thinking if i should go and swap the bulb to something cooler. :D


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30mm - Tiramisu. It’s not perfectly stable - not sure what I was doing but It should have been sharper. For the next one I used a tripod.


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50mm - Tiramisu - Linn is crazy about making, I’m about eating. Really nice! Wanna try?

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my mother Painting colors with water

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Emilia - my sisters kid - trying to make a rainbow for my car.


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She was also trying to make me wet - and sort of lost it. :D


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Definately trying to make me wet. I got a few drops on the lens.


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My smallest brother Samual - in a small lake which is 77m at the deepest. (Hultasjön - if you wanna know) - nice, warm and clear water. You see the fish beneath you most of the time.


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Who is this? mm.. Not sure why we went down to the railway this time but I had to snap a few. 120-300


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Hultasjön again. This time it’s Elin trying to hold her breath - competing with my brothers. I think she managed 10s or so.


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Not easy to catch something like this. But it WAS beautiful.


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My brother Sven Ingvarsson is selling his car and needed some pictures for the advertisement. A Xantia Activa - a very cool car to ride. (not so much to look at but I tried my best). 70-200


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Details with 70-200. It’s fun shooting like this with a zoom.

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So much fun to do this type of photography. Should have done some more. Next time I’ll stay in someones trunk and do it from there. Anyone?

Raw Developer - X3F vs DNG

Published at August 13, 2007 in 10-20, 30mm, 70mm, Raw Developer, sd14 and software. 9 Comments

I did a quick sweep in my lightroom Norway directory and found some images that I here use as examples of what the differences are between Raw Developer DNG and Raw developer X3F. I found that Lightrooms way of handling colors was pretty much the same as Raw Developer + x3f’s converted to DNG’s. ISO100 - 400. and some as close as 500%. Images always sharpened the same way and if possible I used eye dropper for white balance (clouds or snow etc). DNG mode in RD will only use RGB sliders. No temp slider. So it wasn’t that easy to make them look the same.

Left: DNG - Right X3F

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Studio trial’n'error software. Where is it?

Published at August 11, 2007 in how to. 10 Comments

I’ve been searching the internet for a studio setup test drive type of software that gives you the possibility to try different soft boxes, light sources, temperatures, backgrounds, lenses but nothing to be found. Is this an area that has been over looked or is it me that just don’t know how to find it?

I’m taking something simple to use, easy to setup and that isn’t branded but covers most things that you can do in a studio and with some common used shapes, bodies, things as test objects.

This way you could by using the computer find the look you’re after without the need of 3D Studio Max or Alias - and without a model. Of course there should be some standard setups included that you can play with. mmm..

Does this exist already or is there any good programmer out there that wanna do this with me?

Raw Developer mini-review flv..

Published at August 11, 2007 in Movie, flash, photography, review and sd14. 7 Comments

[EDIT] Open recommendation: Please convert to DNG in order to make Raw Developer 1.7.0 stable and retrieve maximum information from your X3F’s. [/EDIT] Alright, it’s time again for yet another movie. Should play in correct size too! I’m trying to find WHAT it is that makes Raw Developer a nice complement to Lightroom and SPP. (I know I need to keep them all). The built in advanced sharpening does help together with true color rendition (I do not know this for sure, but my eyes tells me ;)

RAW developer 1.7.0 - In action movie.

Published at August 8, 2007 in Movie, flash, review and sd14. 12 Comments

New movie: I made a new movie - would give you a better look at the program and probably my voice is there during the whole show. Does it work? (Grrr - it’s made for 500×374 but comes out different) - Day three with Raw Developer: I feel that colors become more true and the whole image more 3D. It takes some picking but when you’re done it feels great!

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Outlet - grrr

Published at August 6, 2007 in photography. 9 Comments

look what's coming out, feeding my fish!
What is that?!?! - something disgusting coming out from the pipe! Uargh - This is the place I used many times for taking late evening, after sunset, pictures of Linn, dogs, grandma etc and I never seen anything coming out from this pipe. hmm.. Should I call the cops?!

SD14 - 12-24mm - something like 10s - Click for much bigger.

Old house and deep sky | 17 images.

Published at August 6, 2007 in 10-20, photography and sd14. 5 Comments



Me and Bengt Werner (another SD14 / Nikon D80 / Sony R1 photographer) went out for a little “learn your tool” photo session and these are some of the resulting images. I might publish some of Bengts images as well if he wants me to. :) But these are mine.

All pictures taken with Sigmas 10-20. I’m more and more in the likes of this lens. Easy to bring (small size) easy to focus (bright and clear) and always so sharp.

I might connect these with bigger version on my flickr account. There is so much to see if you look closer! Continue reading ‘Old house and deep sky | 17 images.’

XiaoGang stag party - 100+ images.

Published at August 4, 2007 in 120-300, 24-60, 30mm, portrait and sd14. 11 Comments

You’re all invited to my friends very private stag party! It’s my chinese room mate from Kunming / China that’s getting married with a friend of mine. (Maria). Enjoy!

Oh, and don’t judge any lens from these pictures. Vignetting IS my doing. ;)

Till Kamera & Bild om SD14 testet. (open letter in swedish)

Published at August 3, 2007 in review and swedish. 11 Comments

Sigma ser världen lite skarpare - Svar på artiklar i tidningarna Kamera & bild samt Digitalfoto för alla

[edit: texten är ändrad 8 april 2008, om Sigma och motljus] Jag hade olusten att häromdagen läsa testet av SD14 i tidningen Kamera & Bild, en artikel skriven av chefsredaktören Magnus Frödenberg. Jag känner mig tvungen att gå i svaromål för Sigmas räkning, då vi som är ägare av kameran är så få. Artikeln känns helt enkelt inte rättvis. Continue reading ‘Till Kamera & Bild om SD14 testet. (open letter in swedish)’

LiveJournal stories! :D (added)

Published at August 2, 2007 in Uncategorized, sd10 and sd9. 5 Comments

Back in China I didn’t use Wordpress at first but another blog tool named LiveJournal. Now, I couldn’t back then import my old entries into wordpress so I skipped it. Today I was googling my own name (do that sometimes to make sure that noone writes any bad stuff). I found my old LiveJournal, alive!

I logged in and found an Export option and then went inside wordpress and found a nice import dialog. haha. Now everything is here! :D I found some good old photos taken with my SD9/10 that I almost forgot about.. Some really nice ones. :) (like the one to the left)

If you wanna read and see (I wrote a bit different in those days) go to 2005/June 2005/july 2005/august 2005/september and 2005/october.

I also recreated my old flickr account. Now I’m going to use that a little bit more too.. hmm