Monthly Archives: April 2010

Chinese artist XuYun, late session..

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

My friend and artist, XuYun has been artist in residents at the Nordic Watercolour Museum on Tjörn. She’s just leaving and I rushed out to her little island to take some last minutes pictures of her. Here’s some of …

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Reflections..

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

Was visiting a friend out on the islands today and saw these beautiful reflections from red barn type of house in the water. The blue sky, the partly lit wall and some white paint made these incredibly nice reflections. The …

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A kids portrait.

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

This is Joakim and I shot him today with my SD14 + my good old 30mm.
And yes, it was really cold when I took this shot, and bit of warm reflector comes in from the right.

It’s really an amazing …

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A 5D duck.. Full size. (updated with RAW)

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

Developed using Lightroom 3 Beta 2 – Original size – Original RAW

Developed using Capture One 5.1.1 (noise red, off)  - Original size – Original RAW

Canon 5D Mark 2 shot taken with the very good 100-400 IS and now, after …

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Sigma 50-500 OS vs Canon 100-400 IS

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

Alright, let me put it like this, today I was going to test how the Canon 100-400 4,5-5,6 IS compared to Sigma 50-500 4,5-6,3 OS and I …

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H&M Spring collection..

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

Another 50-500 OS shot.. :) Golden reflector reflected too much yellow – skin tone was gone so I made it black and white. Still nice I think. :)

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Sigma 120-300 shot Linn @ 2.8!!

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

Sigma SD14, 120-300 @ 2.8  1/500  ISO50 (hand held)

The 120-300 is a classy lens, here I’m trying hard (especially the second shot) to shoot it against the 50-500 and I might add it was a bit tricky as the wind was …

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50-500 OS @ 300mm – hand held 1/60s

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

I really do enjoy the Stabilizer, I feel like I could take those impossible shots such as this one. :)  Camera used: SD14, at ISO200. Lens set at f7.1 and a shutter speed of 1/60s. Pretty amazing really. No extra …

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Elke, Dennis, Niklas, Martina and Ester shot with 50-500 OS

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

And at a full 500mm:

Below: And some more from the dog session, this time playing with F16 1/100s compared with F7,1 1/500s. Handheld of course. And you might notice a slight back focus which I think I need to …

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A lonely seagull..

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

Was caught on tape yesterday from my balcony. 50-500 OS using continues AF.

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