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..
The two above shots are DP1
DP1
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.
Finally after much wait - here is the first of two parts from a photo session I had for the second year somewhere in the wilderness of Sweden. Now, these shots are not meant to be examined deeply - much because some of them are not extremely in focus. (I left the camera sometimes on a tripod having just a trigger in my hand and therefor they could walk out of focus).
I alternated between three different PS plugins to get the look that I wanted or simply to blow out the white background. The ones used most (for white background) is Viveza, the secondly most used is AlienSkin Exposure and the third used for one or two shots is Nik Color Efex Pro.
All shots are here presented in full resolution. Two shots have been slightly cropped. The rest have been left as is.
Click each for full size view. Enjoy!
Yes, it’s me (above and below).
There is more to come.
Click below for some more from this very session.
ArkadiaFoto in Partille / Göteborg invited me to help them shot some models. I wanted to see and test the studio so I went there this very evening and tried light and some of my lenses. So here’s some of the resulting pictures. All images availible as almost full size download. I ended up using one profoto softboxed 1200w light slightly behind me to the right.
Lenses used: 30mm, 70-200, 120-300 and 10-20. Camera: SD14 - ISO set to 100 by mistake. Should of course have been ISO50.
Sigma 30mm - RD note: Monochrome XDR
Sigma 10-20mm
Sigma 120-300mm RD note - colors slightly damped.
Sigma 70-200mm
Sigma 30mm again. Too much fun.
Note: All images has been altered slightly in PS with vignetting and some has seen a touch of Alien skin Exposure. The man on these images belong to Arkadiamodels.com
I 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.
I realized when I got home that I didn’t calibrate the 303SPH carefully enough. (some lines aren’t that nice) If anyone has the same with SD14 + 10-20 please share your numbers. :D I’ll try to do a Church tomorrow. That will be fun.
I went to Göteborg today with Linn to take some indoor panos and while taking one a man approached me and wanted to be inside. I promised him that I would post the picture if it turned out ok. So here it is.
and here’s another 30s ISO400 black and white shot from the same evening (this very evening) - it was raining a lot and I couldn’t just NOT go out so I took a chance and went out into the rain. Camera and lens works still. :)
A couple of days ago someone posted a pano made by a Canon. It was very nice looking night pano and in strong moonlight it looked like if it was daylight. (ISO800 at 10s) So I went out in the swedish darkness hoping to do something with what we have. It was really really dark, no moon and few stars.
The Sigma can only do 30s so the picture came out 2.5 stop (ev) underexposed. So from ISO800 at 30s it becomes ISO 4800. The second shot is something like ISO2000 and you see how much less noise there is.
Lens: 10-20, camera: sd14
Developer: Raw Developer
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.
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.
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. :)
I bought a polarizer and went out today to chase colors of fall. I was surprised of how well the BW polarizer worked and how extreme colors and sky turned out. Pictures below with my sister included has been flashed. :)
Camera SD14, Lenses: 24-60 and 10-20. ISO50 - 100 UPDATE #2, two more added: Click each image for 1500px width or height.
This is the third and final part in the series about Jeannette & Magnus. We have covered the preparations for the bride in two sets (Hair and Face) and here, finally we put the Groom into the picture and look at him! :D
Pictures are mainly taken with Sigma 10-20, Sigma 28mm and Sigma 70mm. Camera used is SD14. This last series contains 36 photos. Processed using Lightroom and Darkroom. (read more about them here) - Assistant was Linn (Liu Dong Yun)
All pictures are linked to my flickr album. Half full size images are available there.
This is the second part of the series around Jeannette & Magnus Wedding. This part contains images from a hotel room in Malmö. The bride did her own make up and her best friend was there to assist her. (you saw her in the first Hair serie) - btw, the bride is from Venezuela.
This is the first part in a series of three. Hair,Face and finally Together. These images was all taken this last Saturday, 15th of Oct and I used SD14 + four lenses. 10-20, 28mm, 30mm and 70mm.
This first part from the hairdresser contains 19 images. Processed using Lightroom and Darkroom. Some images have been altered using Photoshop. (colors) - click on each one for half, full size.
I did a quick sweep in my lightroom Norway directory and found some images that I here use as examples of what the differences are between Raw Developer DNG and Raw developer X3F. I found that Lightrooms way of handling colors was pretty much the same as Raw Developer + x3f’s converted to DNG’s. ISO100 - 400. and some as close as 500%. Images always sharpened the same way and if possible I used eye dropper for white balance (clouds or snow etc). DNG mode in RD will only use RGB sliders. No temp slider. So it wasn’t that easy to make them look the same.
Me and Bengt Werner (another SD14 / Nikon D80 / Sony R1 photographer) went out for a little “learn your tool” photo session and these are some of the resulting images. I might publish some of Bengts images as well if he wants me to. :) But these are mine.
All pictures taken with Sigmas 10-20. I’m more and more in the likes of this lens. Easy to bring (small size) easy to focus (bright and clear) and always so sharp.
I just bought a screencast software named iShowU - very small and cool. Makes screen movies in real time in whatever file format you want. Cool! The Lightroom movie you see is made with it.
..photo from Norway. Click for closer inspection. I played some in PS and maybe I overdid it? I deepened the sky a bit and gave it some extra overall contrast. But it’s more like the memory I have of the place. Just look at that water, do you see how much colors there is? That’s so beautiful!
SD14 + 10-20 @ 10mm
Yesterday Linn decided that we should go out and pick some food in the forest (mushroom food). So I decided that that was boring and that I could take some photos instead of the picking part. Continue reading ‘Test: Sigma 10-20 vs Sigma 12-24 (updated)’
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