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One bridge, two shots..

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on August 8, 2010

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One bridge, two developments

Those fire shots from a couple of days ago made me wanna try SPP 3.3 again and I realize that I should try it much more in the future. Above shots are developed using SPP33 too even though I’m not sure it would differ that much from SPP4.1..

It’s also interesting to note that it’s the same light – well, more or less the same exposure too just a few minutes apart but I played differently with white balance in SPP. Which do you prefer?

Lots of new shots taken mostly with DP2 at my China 2010 set at flickr.

Dali fire festival! (edited, new shots!)

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Carl Rytterfalk

on August 7, 2010

in High ISO/ASA (400+), Sigma DP2 and Sigma Photo Pro

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EDIT! I redeveloped some using SPP 3.3 and added some others. Please see the full set for higher resolution.

Now, it was getting dark, really dark and that’s when people started to gather in the city center of Xia Guan, the Capital of Dali County. Now, this festival sounds nice and I’ve noticed preparations for days. People walking around with large torches, or truck loads with them preparing for the final day of sells.

Fire festival. I heard about it for years but I never had the chance to go and now, finally I’m here! My SD15 (had to return the “pre-version” and being sent a real one) is stuck in customs and I only have my DP1s and Dp2. Not that they’re not good but the SD15 would give me more situational shots – but I’m very very happy with these images! Not as many as they could have been but SPP did a great job on those colors!

Dali Fire Festival, second batch

The strange thing is that EVRYONE was here, streets where filled with people of all ages and torches was being lit everywhere. Some placed like on the picture above as a big fire others where carried around.. Everything would have been just fine if it stopped here but no, these Chinese are crazy! in every street corner sits people selling some kind of powder containing wood and from the smell I guess it’s something else that ignites superfast and this powder you buy and then you take a hands full and throw it into the fire! It all fires up with a woff and a huge flame and people are cheering.

Dali fire festival

Three images below, made using SPP3.3. First is Linn, second me and third her mom.

Dali Fire Festival, second batch

We bought some too and we had lots of fun but we soon realized that people carrying those torches was looking at ME with fire in their eyes and suddenly I find my self in a huge flame and my back is superhot – they’re throwing this powder at each other too! And me and girls are perhaps the perfect pray – it’s from now on I feel like a hunted animal and I don’t want to go home! It’s dangerous and it’s not dangerous and they’re putting me on fire with a smile! SOO STRANGE!!! :D

Below, the second more blue version is SPP 3.3 while the first is SPP 4.1. ISO is above 1600, but exposure compensated for higher so more noise visible. Still, fire is beautiful!

Dali Fire Festival, second batch

This guy was trying to get closer to me without me seeing and his friend had his hand full of powder getting ready to throw at me, luckily I turned around before it all happened and could get this shot instead. hehe.. We where really running around like crazy trying to hide with groups of people and at the same time I was eager to get some shots. aaaaa

Dali fire festival

I would be surprised if there was less than half a million people on the streets – it was that many and I didn’t see ONE foreigner. So I was the haunted one. haha. And beautiful girls too, like Linn. So we tried to stay together as much as possible – she went up in flames a couple of times and her but hurt.. at least she said. My eyebrows was curly the day after, says something about the heat.

Dali Fire Festival, second batch

All images available at full size at my flickr China 2010 set.

DP2 in the mirror..

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Carl Rytterfalk

on August 5, 2010

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Dali countryside <a onclick= DP2" width="500" height="333" /> Dali countryside DP2 (crop)

Crop from first shot. not 100%.

I found this cool mirror when passing a beauty shop. Btw, all these shops are located in something that looks very similar to a garage – both by design and size. And it’s not uncommon that the owner sleeps in the back or above. So, when the shop opens the whole door is pulled away and it’s like one wall is gone, no door no nothing. Like opening a garage. That also brings the possibility to fast find mirrors and stuff that you can shoot at like this one directly from the bright, sunlit street.

And yes. I had to take this shot like four times to get the correct exposure. It’s really a tricky situation. It’s also tilted slightly but I wanted you to have the full size original without any corrections made.

Or like this one, it’s not easy to hide when there is no wall.. (would have been great if I looked at shutter speed before pressing that trigger. Hoping for Sigma to add full auto ISO too.. :) Would really help me in situations like this one. I do use auto ISO, but would use it MUCH more if it gave me a better reach.

I remember that I shot a kid with some cool t-shirt some time ago, someone thought it was cool and I found another one - if anyone seen the movie, then you know what the text refers to. :D Often when I see one it’s either on a person that I feel bad shooting or inside some dark shop OR no camera at reach.

Sometimes the owner has this problem of what to do, cut hair or sell toys?

Sigma DP2. Developed using Lightroom 3. I know, shots would most likely be nicer if at least first processed using SPP but I developed lots of shots and I really don’t have much time for SPP..

Extra: And just came home from the fire festival which I wanted to visit last year but couldn’t and now, finally I had a go.. so crazy. I did bring cameras too, but it was pitch black except for the fire – will post some images. But it’s sleep time now.

Lucky little Bee

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Carl Rytterfalk

on July 29, 2010

in Adobe Lightroom, Full size, High ISO/ASA (400+), ISO50, Portraits, Sigma DP2 and Sigma Photo Pro

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Now, I had a some days together with only DP2 – the strange thing is that when I bring the DP2, then all situations are begging for wider – and when bringing the DP1 the opposite. But these below worked perfectly well using the DP2′s 42mm lens. Also, a reminder. Edited on nothing calibrated but I think they should look ok.

Lucky Bee
This little girl stood outside the window of a restaurant and she looked at me constantly – the guy sitting there is the restaurant owner and he tried several times to scare her away by banking on the window and by by looking at her with angry face.. But she remained with the same face, looking at me.. This is perhaps the only time I been thinking about adoption. :P

Also notice that some have a cropped version as well.. it’s not me taking two shots. :)

Let there be light!

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Carl Rytterfalk

on May 19, 2010

in Adobe Lightroom, Flash, Full size, How to, ISO50, Portraits, Sigma DP1, Sigma DP2 and Sigma Photo Pro

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Decided that I wanted some practice using my Sigma 530DG Super and my Elinchrom Quadra. Today was a bright sunny day and I was hiding together with my students in the shadows trying to get optimum conditions for photography. I used both Sigma DP1 and DP2 and as soon as you see strong colors around the flash, that’s the DP1 used and It’s me forcing it by placing the light inside the frame (I enjoy those colors tremendously) . All shots processed using Sigma SPP4 and Lightroom 3 Beta 2. (from TIFF)

These above where the very first shots, I noticed that I had to turn on something in order to make it work. :) And as you might notice it has a very strong “flashy” feeling and by increasing shutter speed and lower the quadras power I got a more natural looking light. See below. Also notice that there is no “color” problems as long as light is outside frame.

Continue reading ‘Let there be light!’

Some re-processed Sigma RAW with SPP4.

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Carl Rytterfalk

on March 31, 2010

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SPP 4.0, ISO400
Mixed ISO (ISO25 – 400), Mixed cameras. SD14, DP2. Developed using SPP4.

SPP 4.0, the good and the bad! [edit]

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Carl Rytterfalk

on March 29, 2010

in High ISO/ASA (400+), ISO50, Review, Sigma DP1, Sigma DP2, Sigma Photo Pro and Sigma SD14

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Alright, I guess this will be the first in at least two reviews of SPP4 and I want to concentrate on differences between this version and the old 3.3 image wise (will come back to selective noise reduction a bit more later on). Most things with this new version is good. It’s faster, has better colors and you can adjust amount of noise reduction. But, and there is a big but! Sigma forgot about all of us that loves BW conversions. :´(

Now you might wanna try out different WB´s instead of just fooling around with the color wheel. Each pre-white balance has been altered some and correct WB can sometimes make your day, more so with this version than with old 3.3.

If you have lots of ISO50 images around then you can go ahead and redevelop them because they will most likely look much better in this version, especially if some of that highlight was burnt. Higher ISO shots now has a much more vibrant look, greens are more green, reds are less yellow and less saturated at the same time but in this case this is all good. Also, you can now select white balance for a big bunch of images instead of having to select them one by one. Nice!

First, SPP manage to squeeze much more colors and life out of old high ISO images. Also, have a close look at that fire!!

SPP3.3 on the left and SPP4 on the right. ISO400. You can see how fire has lots more dynamic range and the reflection in his face looks much improved. Also notice how the green trees behind looks more saturated and less dull. Both images has been treated the same, same settings, same WB (shade) and white balance picked from eye.

SPP3.3 on the left and SPP4 on the right. ISO1600. Sigma worked hard to improve image quality in bad indoor light. Be careful with your WB selection as this one looked terrible with the wrong one selected. Also play around with that new noise reduction. Some images don’t need so much and you gain some nice saturation to leave it at lower levels.

SPP3.3 on the left and SPP4 on the right. ISO50. What’s really amazing is how they improved ISO50′s dynamic range! Take a look at the sky, and remember this image has lots of fill light applied. I think 0.8 on both SPP3.3 and 4. Colors, especially reds looks better too. Less orange.

At first I thought SPP4 did a bad job, there seams to be less information in the highlight.

But after I pulled the exposure compensation slider back -2.0 you clearly see how much more dynamic range you get in this new version. Looks like a full stop or perhaps even more! ISO50 will certainly be more useful in the future especially with all these OS lenses coming! :)

SPP3.3 on the left and SPP4 on the right. ISO200. Green has been more separated and it feels like you have more tones of green to play with. a very welcome addition! Not sure if Sigma beats Silkypix though, I think they’re still is ahead in the green departement. I know someone over at Dpreview complained about SPP4s green and I tried to find issues with it with many different shots from various cameras but without luck (or should I say, with luck?!) – and couldn’t really find any bad or flawed situations. Help me! :)

SPP3.3 on the left and SPP4 on the right. ISO400. Inside a shop, mixed light. And as you see red has been mighty improved! Now contains much less yellow and has a more realistic tone – also lots more tones and detail inside the red. Nice! (same settings on both images, DP2)

SPP3.3 on the left and SPP4 on the right. ISO1600. Now to the BAD. As you know I’m a monochrome junkie and I love how SPP deals with black and white high ISO images. But that’s now history and we now have something that looks terribly bad.

I’m sure Sigma will do something about this and I hope that they at the same time realize the need of monochrome white balance in RAW mode so that we can enjoy high ISO shooting for real!

SPP3.3 on the left and SPP4 on the right. ISO1600. The only good is that with lower ISO (below ISO400) this mess isn’t applied.

Please Sigma, have an option to turn this strange massacre off!

Alright.. This was a first look. Comments?

Just another fruit..

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Carl Rytterfalk

on March 27, 2010

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Just had to put up something developed using SPP4. Very smooth tones. ISO100. NO PS except text and cropping. AML-1 used. (close up lens from Sigma)
Full size (slightly cropped)

Rockstar

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Carl Rytterfalk

on March 27, 2010

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A shot from Wednesday evening. DP2. Quadra.
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Splashing water..

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Carl Rytterfalk

on March 26, 2010

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I wisely used some ‘support’ money on a smaller aquarium and took it with me to my photo students. I also brought some fruits and we had some great fun. Setup was simple, my Quadra on one side and a much slower cheapo strobe behind – not a very nice setup really but it works when only fun matters.. Camera who took these? DP2 + AML-1. I added some saturation and sharpness in photoshop.

It was very very difficult to actually catch any of those falling fruits with the DP2 which is a little to narrow – the DP1 would perhaps be better but then the tank would have to be bigger too.. White balance was also hard to set – as you see it looks pretty colorful and blueish and it’s all color wheel thing – and I’m not sure I did the right thing. :)

Linn Göteborg.

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Carl Rytterfalk

on March 23, 2010

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Here’s a shot of Linn taken in the big city of Göteborg. DP2, ISO400. I said in the video that I was about to publish it so I felt obligated to do so. :D Full version.

Local contrast magic – with Ted.

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Carl Rytterfalk

on March 23, 2010

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Ted Johnson wrote to me the other day about LCE or Local Contrast Enhancement and we decided to make this video together. Lightroom calls this “clarity” and has a slider for it, but in this tutorial we will give you an enhanced look into how you can do it yourself inside Photoshop (or Gimp) -- and be in full control.

Portrait of Alex

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Carl Rytterfalk

on March 21, 2010

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Full size image

Alexander is trying to quit smoking and I’m not sure what it is I see in his eye, but a little bit of shame perhaps that I caught him? But it’s a bit of a setup, I asked him to look serious and he tried his best.

I developed this image twice in Sigma Photo Pro. Fist one with ONLY background in mind. Red channel worked nicely but then his face was very very dark. So I developed a second time with the blue channel and this time his face was nicely lit. (shadows often brightens up in the blue channel).. The rest is all about PS.

Develop black and white

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Carl Rytterfalk

on March 21, 2010

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A basic tour in how to produce nice black and white images with the help of Sigma Photo Pro. And in case I didn’t make myself clear in the video, no flash or strobes has been used in any of these images. Only halogen “flood” light, a 1000w of it -- pretty bad really and therefor black and white is a really good solution. Also, camera used? Dp2. Surprise! :D

You made some successful attempts? Please add images to your comments. :)

Some BW’s from tonight. DP2

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Carl Rytterfalk

on March 17, 2010

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Well, we were supposed to have one of my studio classes this evening but our key to the locker containing our strobes were lost and all I had was this strong (1000w) light that we tried to hold and aim. It was way to hot. :) We also had an umbrella that worked as an reflector hand held, really clumsy setup.. :)

Normally during evenings such as these I don’t take many images, they do. But tonight I wanted to play a little with my Dp2. So here you go. :D BW conversion is pure SPP and different red / blue / mono techniques used. You wanna know more about this? Say yes and I’ll make a video. :)

Above shot is almost pure red channel. (color wheel at red, saturation slider at monochrome).

Above is more bluish color wheel thingi.. (compared to red channel in the photo above this one)

And yes, all can be found as full size images on my Flickr. Although remember, no flash has been used and me + coffee + coffee + some more and bad shutter speed = not as sharp as I’d like. :) ISO differs between ISO200 and 400.

Carl Rytterfalk Fotografi

Archive for the 'Sigma DP2' Category

One bridge, two shots..

Dali fire festival! (edited, new shots!)

DP2 in the mirror..

Lucky little Bee

Let there be light!

Some re-processed Sigma RAW with SPP4.

SPP 4.0, the good and the bad! [edit]

Just another fruit..

Rockstar

Splashing water..

Linn Göteborg.

Local contrast magic – with Ted.

Portrait of Alex

Develop black and white

Some BW’s from tonight. DP2

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