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Photography and retouching how to articles

A Yak bull.. Single shot HDR

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Carl Rytterfalk

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Another shot from my trip up north and this time it’s a Yak bull (At least I think so).. :) It’s a shot taken at ISO200 – You may want to open the shot in PS in order to …

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Playing with light. (further explained)

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Carl Rytterfalk

If you go to a party, what could possibly be better to bring than your SD15, the 17-50 2.8 OS and a couple of strobes? I asked myself the same question and came to the fantastic conclusion that  - nothing could …

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Dp1x vs SD14 – Long exposures.

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

I tried my best to make a shot that more or less looked the same and to my surprise I learned a thing along the way. The DP1x (and perhaps DP2 and SD15 too) is extremely sensitive to what …

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DIY steady cam for iPhone

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

(Above is shot and painted using iPhone and the SketchBook application)

I’m sorry, I’ve been looking at pictures all day long and suddenly I felt I wanted to do something different – looking around and found much foam board / …

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Jewelry photography – day 6+ (Updated)

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

Here’s a short wrap up on how far I’ve come to date. I now actively use my home built opal plastic tube thingi that some of you have seen and I want to thank Ted who gave me the idea (the …

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Jewelry photography, day five.

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

Now I moved so much away from my initial setup that I feel that I will show you a picture or two of what my current setup actually looks like. Woohoo! I will post some in the comments section.  The above shot is …

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Jewelry photography, day four. (Updated)

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

Final capture for day four: We had a long talk today, me and the jewelry guy. He wanted the text within each ring to be unreadable so we decided that taking each text away using PS would take way to long, …

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Let there be light!

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

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. …

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Local contrast magic – with Ted.

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

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 …

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Portrait of Alex

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

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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 …

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