I tend to forget that I lived in China for a very long time and during that time I took a huge amount of pictures all in raw. Since then lots have changed and new raw developers has popped up such as Lightroom, Sigma Photo Pro 3, Darkroom and Raw Developer. I decided to test one of them and this is SD10 images with the Sigma 30mm lens converted using Raw Developer. Click each image for a full size version. If you have time you can dig and find the old versions from back then. :)
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
Camera: SD10
Lens: 15-30
Exposures: four (background + inside + ouside + side reflection). Handheld.
Light: Halogen table light
Me and Linn had some fun last night. We wanted to see if we could make a bottle of wine look nice on a photo using many shots. And here’s the end result. For the moment I’m without my SD14 so I went for my SD10. Worked like a charm. :) White balance is kind of off, but we liked it warm. We felt free. The wine is made by my grand mother and taste great so so! I think it’s black red currant.
And there is one more..
The most mighty building I’ve seen must be the Köln Dom (and I have seen the great wall and the heart of Linn). A huge, enormous catholic church in the center of Köln, Germany. I went there many times during my days at Photokina and the outside was as powerful as the music was on the inside. I will go to bed now but before doing so I wanna show you this image. Please enjoy the full resolution version as well.
Short history, first stone were laid in the 13th century. Work stopped 1520 at 57m height because of no money. Work continued 1842 and was finished 1880 at 157m height. (if I remember correctly)
Lens: Sigma 30mm. Camera: Sigma SD10. Good night.
Sorry, one more bunch of photos that has not much to do with anything. mm.. If you like, please take a look. :)
I took my girlfriend under one arm and my SD10 under the other. Together we spent today at Photokina in Köln, Germany. It’s been great. I wanna tell you so much but I can’t. It’s sleeptime and I’m so so tired.
Please enjoy some pictures that has little to do with things and more to do with people. Some of which some of you know. Maybe I’ll post some more tomorrow and I think I will give some sort of first view of the SD14 too, if you like. :) Now enjoy this little flash slideshow made in Lightroom B4. it’s fast dirty work.
PS. Many of the pictures are taken by Linn. The dome etc. :)
On the way home from our oceanic trip we saw two young moose and stopped to see if we could get close enough for a photo (wanted to use my 30mm at F1.4 because this was after sunset but had my 70-200 on, you know, maybe I at least could get something). But this was about the closest we got. The girl you see is Linn.
plus; they ran away as soon as Linn started to sound like a cow. I ran too.
Sigma SD9, ISO400, 70-200 EX processed using Lightroom.
Me and my brother went for a little ride today, trying to find a place for a multi exposure shot of him climbing all over the place. In our search for a good spot we found this horse. When we took the picture, pretty far away from civilization, the owner came out wanting to talk. And this he did. about everything and nothing. About an hour later we found our selfs almost washed away and drained in water and home we returned. So my next picture is from that last part.
For horse image I used The SD10 and Sigmas 70-200 EX (old version) and for that other from inside the car I used Sigmas 12-24 EX. Both very nice lenses.
Camera SD10 and Lens Sigma 30mm, I think it was at F1.4.
Here I wrote a long text about me, “home and behind bars”. I deleted it and from plenty it all ended up behing worth nothing. I love being home, but my longing back out is strong. It might be the food.. :P
I have i big family. In this big family there are some brothers. Most of these playing a game called football. (you might refer to it as soccer). After some time a ball gets trashed, there is many reasons to why this would happen. One could be that we have sticky bush, another that our dog eat balls for breakfast. Whatever reason I now have documented their current state and here it is:
All pictures taken with my rusty SD10 and my trusty 30mm.
I’m back in Älvängen and my mind is still puzzled about choices I make. But to ease the pain I’ll publish some pictures from my daily life. I have some more I wanna show but they’re on another hard drive. I’ll try to show them soon as well..
My brother Josef is here trying to show me how to throw yourself as a goalkeeper. I always wanted to do that but somehow my body just says NO. -Don’t do such stupid moves. Sometimes I dislike my behavior.
My mom is an artist, and I wanted to catch her somehow inside one of her paintings. I used a Sigma 30mm at 1.4, and I ALMOST nailed focus.. hehe
Our dog, Ester. yesterday me, some brothers and this dog had a deep forrest sleep-over. It was a very nice evening, we had hot dogs (no, we didn’t eat Ester) but we woke up this very morning by heavy rain. Packing up quickly, half running to the car we saw our little Ester coming from a nearby field. She had been norty. She was covered in horse shit. :/
My big sister Britta, here trying to figure out how to best use my reflector when it’s windy. not too bad.. :)
And finally my smallest brother Samuel.
Will try to be a little more.. well.. online. and do things. I have landed in the state of waiting and got stuck. Just a bit. too much.
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’
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’
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.
Sigma 30mm EX 1/2000 @ F5.6 - ISO400 (by mistake)Lightroom dump.
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