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Jon and Carolina | Wedding session

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Another really fun wedding session, this time a bit north or everything in a town called Mariestad - more famous for it’s fine beer. It was a bit tricky as Linn is now working down south as a guide on a castle and she couldn’t be my assistant. I really wanted that - so we improvised and used the best man for the job. Lucky for Jon and Carolina, it worked great! You can actually see him on several shots.

Oh, I also improved my car shooting style thingi - fun stuff! Lucky for me we had the time needed to play.

Cameras used was SD14 and DP1 - I had many lenses with me - more or less all but I ended up using the trusty 12-24 the most as I love the cokin filter border effect so much. Second place I think is 30 or 50mm 1.4 not sure as 50 is so new for me I tend to reach for the 30mm. 120-300 does give me joy when needed. It’s not very easy to find good occations or locations for it but when it’s time then it’s great!

I also noticed a slight magenta cast in some of the “just out of the church” shots - just so you know. :D

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When open the whole article more pictures appears as well as some whom has been shown already above. Don’t be frightened about that, it’s perfectly normal.

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Oscean trip..

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Rainy day going out with my little brothers boat. Windy and dark sky made my day. Light changed rapidly as sun sometimes came throu and I must say there is lots more easier tasks than correct white balance a day like this. :D - So bare with me. Btw, we went out to fish - the only fish we saw was this one. (see below shot)

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And above shot shows myself doing one of those - don’t know how to behave in FRONT of the camera. I really do have a problem with that. Behind me is Xiao Gang - the guy that I used to live together with during some of my years in China.

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Minath Tirith?! No, it’s some huge river flow balancing tool. They do look monstrous.

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Wide open at 2.8! The 70-200 has recently given me really nice pictures.

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Lenses used: 12-24, 24-60, 70-200 and 120-300.
Camera: SD14
Developer: SPP2.5 + Aperture.

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Daniel & Maria | Wedding with SD14 and DP1

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Another wedding session, and I’m happy to announce that DP1 is a great b camera! :D Linn had hers with her all the time (she assist me) and she took quite a few really nice shots. I used mine as well and I got more keepers from the DP1 (compared to amount of shots taken) than with the SD14. More time to think? I think one or two of Linns are among these too.

My workflow has slightly changed and looks like the following. I make the basic adjustments from SD14 and DP1 RAW in SPP 2.5 Windows. After adjustments are done I import all into a new project in Apple Aperture.

In Aperture I use the new plugin called Viveza to further adjust certain spots - add light to face or simply to enhance black and white images. I also use Aperture to dodge and burn, crop and straighten, add vignetting and my little watermark. I don’t apply vignetting to all but to many shots. So don’t judge lenses because of my images. hehe..

During all this I also add stars to my favorites, this I later use when publishing to the couple and the very best here on my website. I ended up with 44 images in this post and 133 to the couple, I started with about 300 from SPP and around 700 in total from field..

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There is all in all 44 images in this post. Click each image to view the full size image. Remember that this is copyrighted material.

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First Sigma 4.5mm fisheye portraits!

I went out yesterday together with Linn and the amazing Sigma 4.5mm circular fisheye. We had a great time and my goal was to do some QTVR - stupid me forgot a small screw for the 303SPH - and had to play with the lens in other ways possible.

Like this: (Click for bigger)

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All shots taken wide open at f2.8 with a shutter speed of around 2s. I used the 500DG Super turned back. I did drive at the same time (look at the light outside) - kind of stupid but I just couldn’t wait. (tricky stuff) The last shot was shot by Linn.

All shots developed with Raw Developer. Want to know more about this lens? Click here.


Links to discussions: Fotosidan.se (swedish) | Sigma forum / dpreview.com

Göteborg - QTVR At sunset

gbgI was visiting Göteborg today and I brought my pano equipment with me and decided to try a HDR (High dynamic range) movie. I set the camera at HI and at tripple exposures. This is the result. Click the image for a closer look. The full is too big, so this is a smaller one. Besides, with three exposures per image in a city that moves - not everything will be perfect. Tree is moving, birds are flying and people isn’t still. Even buses and cars are playing games with me.

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Boring weather makes me do this:

Showing you how a ND Grad filter from cokin works. It’s from this very summer and I might have posted something like this before. Not sure. Now these photos are developed using Raw Developer and no PS. Click for bigger.

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Also notice how the sky changes from bright blue to a much more deep color. The ND I used here was pretty strong.

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Now, hoping for some sun or snow or both!

Nordstan - Göteborg

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Walking the dog this morning and came home with these. It was cold, very cold. The second photo is 2,5s at f22. The water was very noisy (a bit windy) and that’s why I tried to get as long shutter as possible. I had the polarizer on too for this reason. Click both images for high res version.

For the burned car I couldn’t see how well I focused (I didn’t wanna climb inside) and I wasn’t very successful. I should have focused 10-20cm further away.

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Panoramas indoor - first try!

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Kitchen - Sigma 10-20mm @ 10mm. f4.5. ISO50. 3s
Developed using Raw Developer 1.71 “Auto1″ used for colors. Exposure + 0.5 in RD. AutoPano Pro used for putting these together (It’s sooo easy to work with.. greaaaat tool!). Manfrotto 303 Panohead used. Slightly miss aligned.

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Bedroom - Sigma 10-20mm @ 10mm. F8. ISO50. 6s
Developed using Raw Developer 1.71 Grey picked from paper on desk. This was my second try and I worked a bit harder to align the pano head better. :)

These was shot at night (an hour ago or so) so nothing else than mixed indoor light. Click for higher quality. I know that I over exposed quite a bit, I could have saved some more highlight. Especially on that second bedroom shot or if I used ISO100 I would have gotten so much more. But quick and dirty and fun. :)

Dry Ice and Liquid Nitrogen evening. Part 2

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We had lots of fun and after looking thru the resulting bunch of images I found a couple that I’m willing to share. :) Some flower closeups are pictures taken by Linn, and I’m sure some more. Anyways. 27 Photos to look at. If you can’t get hold of Dry Ice and Liquid Nitrogen, this page might help a little. :D

PS. Thanks Thunderlance and Linn for making this possible.
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Liquid Nitrogen and my Dad

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Above flower and a 16MP crop. Both these shots are developed using Raw Developer 1.7 using X3F file. My friend Filip aka Thunderlance had the wonderful idea of bringing dry ice and liquid Nitrogen to my home. We had fun with it. Not very easy to just take picture of / with it.. but we did try. hehe. Will post more soon.

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Strange fish..

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Or is it an insect? Click image for closer look.
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New Studio session! Great babe!

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Our dog Ester had puppies the other day, nine of them. One look like this. Click image for much bigger version. :D worth it, specially on the last one were I got focus just right.

Gas station by night

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SD14, ISO50, polarizer, 2.2s, F8, tripod, one shot, darkroom mac
Click for bigger. (image captured a couple of hour ago.. it was beautiful sky!)

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