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Happy New Year 2010!! Well, I’m late, I know. But I just came back from celebrating the new year up at my big sisters place in Brålanda. It’s so far away from everything and Internet hasn’t reached them just yet.. (not). I’m not too often up at her place, it’s a 100km drive (that’s the only good excuse I have not to go there more often and I know she reads this)..
Ah, and you might wonder why I have no splendid pictures of cool firecrackers – Well, it all comes down to luck and really, really bad timing. In Brålanda (a small town of what seams to me to be around 10 people) people have firecrackers but they all live randomly around my tripods position and none of them had ANY understanding of photography or photographers. They could have said: – I’ll let another rocket up right now, and I’ll wait for your signal Carl. But no, they just let them up a little here and there and always in the wrong direction from where I stood with my 20-30s exposure.
Oh well, there is always another one coming!
Now, all these shots has been taken with my Sigma SD14 – some of them using the 120-300 and others using a new lens that I will get back to in a while. (all wider shots). 90% has been developed using SPP with minor adjustments using LR3 before flickry upload. The rest (two shots) has been developed using Silkypix.
Flickr gallery with all shots in full size.
(All above shots except the bird has been shot using the other lens..)
Now, the new year started with lots and lots of snow. We had to stay one extra day because of it. Below you’ll find “extra day with snow and my sisters family”, pictures.
Continue reading ‘One week Winter.. 2009/10′
Just came home from a car photo session – an old Ford Escort from the 70th with about 700hp. We drove into a beautiful landscape, my assistant Bengt drove my car, I sat in the trunk with back open. It was cloudy with strong sun now and then, a bit chilly – three nights in a row with frost. Well, the car broke and we were stucked in the middle of nowhere with these little fellows as company. Sun was really low and I tried to shield the 120-300 with my hand without too much success. :D (to my delight)
I developed once more with Raw Developer. I did first with Lightroom but RD gave more filmic feeling. These are ISO200 and 100 – noise reduction turned off. All available as full size at flickr.
Just wanted to share two late shots taken during the session that you saw previously and they’re both taken with the Sigma 120-300 at ISO50 and SD14. It was a VERY bright sunny day so stayed in the shadows under some huge trees – Tried to equal the light so that my elinchrom quadra wouldn’t be too noticed, used a white umbrella and without a meeter I had to test shoot some before setting the correct power and exposure. But I never really used a light meter before so I’m not sure it would make things faster. As long as my assistant was staying on the same distance exposure would stay about the same. My biggest problem was that clouds would come and go, so light would change LOTS in a couple of seconds – and so would exposure. Lots of shots trashed because of this.
Raw Developer used for these. :)
Some of the exposures from the other day (very cold day I might add). These are all taken with the wonderful Sigma 120-300 2.8 lens and although it’s a bit on the heavy side it’s so much fun. I should definitely take more walks with it. All images has been processed using Sigma Photo Pro and later post processed using PS, reality is sometimes boring. :)
All images available on flickr in full size.
SD14 + DP1, 12-24 and 120-300 used most on these. Sigma Photo Pro for all color pictures and Raw Developer 1.80 used on all Black and white shots. Aperture for post and publishing. Click more for more! :D Full size images for all.
Trying out the new Lightroom 2.1, these shots were taken with SD14 + 120-300 and 50mm 1.4. (Sigmas). I did add lots of vignetting, so don’t blame sigma. ;) I’m not satisfied with Lightrooms way of handling the RAW Foveon data BUT I’m VERY happy with Adobes approach with DP1 images. In their latest RAW update for Photoshop and Lightroom there is support and it’s more vibrant and better color separation than Sigmas photo pro. I’ll do some more tests and share later.
I think I’ll redevelop these and see what they could look like using SPP 3.2 + Aperture. Just for fun! :D
and some other from the same occasion..
120-300. Sigma Photo Pro.
Alright – with my new Mac I had to get started! These are produced with the help of Sigma Photo Pro 3.2 (color shots) and Raw Developer 1.8 (black and white shot). All pictures ends up as 16bit tiffs in Aperture. From aperture I add some final adjustments – sometimes with the help of Viveza and sometimes with a little bit of vignetting etc – it’s mostly for the easy upload to flickr and possibility to add my signature without hazel.
Look, it’s me!! :D 12-24, cokin, SPP + aperture. Sky enhanced with Viveza.
120-300. Sigma Photo Pro. Too warm? Version two.
12-24. Sigma Photo Pro. Cokin filter. (ND Grad)
12-24. Raw Developer 1.8.
All pictures are available as full size shots. Just click each picture.
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
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.
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)
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.
Minath Tirith?! No, it’s some huge river flow balancing tool. They do look monstrous.
And some from the day before at the cliffy beach.. :D
Wide open at 2.8! The 70-200 has recently given me really nice pictures.
Lenses used: 12-24, 24-60, 70-200 and 120-300.
Camera: SD14
Developer: SPP2.5 + Aperture.
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.
Continue reading ‘Crazy studio session, SD14 + DP1 | Part 1′
Video clip hosted by the Norwegian photographer Yvind giving us important info on the 120-300 and how to use it properly. Inside you’ll find people like Ole, Filip, Oliver and myself. We also try to find another lost soul – the danish dragonfly photographer Fritz. – these are regular posters over at Dpreview and we had a little “get together” here at my place this very weekend. We had really great weather and much to talk about. And of course to shoot. I will post several un-cut videos.
These are all taken with the Sigma Dp1. If you wonder why you can’t see the SD14 display in this clip, that’s because I looked exposure by using AEL (because sunlight was very strong at the moment) and therefore the LCD will not show.
Somehow the movie became squeezed, not sure when or how. hehe
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
30s of my home – this was pretty late. F11 – can you see my sister Emmy? She came in the middle and… Oh, the strong yellowish tone comes from streetlight behind me. I’m thinking if i should go and swap the bulb to something cooler. :D
30mm – Tiramisu. It’s not perfectly stable – not sure what I was doing but It should have been sharper. For the next one I used a tripod.
50mm – Tiramisu – Linn is crazy about making, I’m about eating. Really nice! Wanna try?
my mother Painting colors with water
Emilia – my sisters kid – trying to make a rainbow for my car.
She was also trying to make me wet – and sort of lost it. :D
Definately trying to make me wet. I got a few drops on the lens.
My smallest brother Samual – in a small lake which is 77m at the deepest. (Hultasjön – if you wanna know) – nice, warm and clear water. You see the fish beneath you most of the time.
Who is this? mm.. Not sure why we went down to the railway this time but I had to snap a few. 120-300
Hultasjön again. This time it’s Elin trying to hold her breath – competing with my brothers. I think she managed 10s or so.
Not easy to catch something like this. But it WAS beautiful.
My brother Sven Ingvarsson is selling his car and needed some pictures for the advertisement. A Xantia Activa – a very cool car to ride. (not so much to look at but I tried my best). 70-200
Details with 70-200. It’s fun shooting like this with a zoom.
So much fun to do this type of photography. Should have done some more. Next time I’ll stay in someones trunk and do it from there. Anyone?
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