Category Archives: How to

Photography and retouching how to articles

Macro photography with reverse lens

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Carl Rytterfalk

Me and my friend Martin Carlsson had one of our nerdy meetings yesterday. We didn’t have a real plan, more then go out for a session but weather was really as dull as it gets and none of us …

Posted in 10-20, 70mm, Canon, Flash, Full size, How to, Sigma Photo Pro, Sigma SD14 | 11 Comments

Video from Schillerska.. (NEW, IMPROVED)

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Carl Rytterfalk

EDIT: You saw it? Please check it out again as it’s now much nicer looking, especially full screen” Make sure you have HD selected.

This video is made for Linn to show on her last day at work for …

Posted in 12-24, 18-50, How to, Movie, Sigma DP1, Sigma DP2, Sigma SD14, Studio | 9 Comments

What a strobe!

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Carl Rytterfalk

UPDATE: Some of these shots has now been redeveloped using Lightroom 3 beta. Just wanted to try the flickr upload function, not sure these looks any better, but contains lots more black. Previous upload was developed using Raw Developer. …

Posted in Adobe Lightroom, Flash, Full size, How to, Raw Developer, Studio | 4 Comments

The making of fluid females series

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Carl Rytterfalk

Recently we had some friends over – all the way from Germany. Bob, Olga and Anastasia came for Linn’s birthday (Days later Olga had her birthday as well). Bob and Olga are two well known artists in the Sigma …

Posted in All, How to, Link, Portraits, Sigma SD14, Studio | 2 Comments

Silkypix First look and Mixed raw pack!

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Carl Rytterfalk

Updated! Now including the RAW from Flyingrooster and Biggydogs english fix.

Movie is now OK. ;)

I also baked a nice little raw pack for you so that if you don’t currently have a Sigma, you can at least play …

Posted in Flash, Full size, How to, Movie, Portraits, RAW, Review, Sigma DP1, Sigma DP2, Sigma SD14, Silkypix | Tagged , , , , , , | 61 Comments

Beautiful fighters.. plus mono video.

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Carl Rytterfalk

Here’s the RAW from the video if you wanna play some yourself. All Raw developers links can be found on the right side. –>

Playing some with RD’s monochome settings. It gives something cool. Pretty dirty if you press the …

Posted in 18-50, Adobe Lightroom, Apple Aperture, Flash, Full size, How to, Movie, Portraits, RAW, Raw Developer, Sigma Photo Pro, Sigma SD14, Studio | 2 Comments

SD14 + Jpeg studio experience. Part 3

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Carl Rytterfalk

Continuing from Part 2.

So the time has come for the final post in this series of my forced jpeg experience. I do feel silly about the whole thing really – User of Foveon equipped Sigmas since 2002 and still …

Posted in 18-50, All, How to, Sigma SD14 | Tagged , , , , , , | 26 Comments

Walk among mushrooms – once more. [update]

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Carl Rytterfalk

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With the Sigma AML-1 you get closer, and not only that you get even shorter area in focus. You can create new worlds. :) I had the Sigma polarizer attached as well. Further down in this article you will …

Posted in Adobe Lightroom, Full size, How to, ISO50, Polarizer / Filter, Sigma DP1, Sigma DP2, Sigma Photo Pro | 6 Comments

Behind a face at the barber..

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Carl Rytterfalk

When I’m doing weddings I always go to the hairdresser to take the first shots and to get to know the bride. Sometimes it takes forever – like two-three hours and that’s sometimes boring time, time sometimes hard to …

Posted in 30mm 1.4, How to, Sigma SD14 | 2 Comments

Again, a Sigma DP2 shot developed with RD, LR and SPP [updated]

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Carl Rytterfalk

Sigma DP2, ISO200. SPP conversion. Click above photo to enter article. EDIT: The above shot is taken using Sigmas optional polarizer  (DG Filter, Wide C-PL).

Another shot converted.
Sigma DP2 shot, ISO100. [edit! It was those extra shots in the end of …

Posted in Adobe Lightroom, Full size, How to, Raw Developer, Sigma DP2, Sigma Photo Pro | 9 Comments