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Crazy studio session, SD14 + DP1 | Part 1

Published at May 30, 2008 in 10-20, 120-300, 16.5mm, 30mm, 70-200, 70mm, Sigma Photo Pro, dp1, full size, portrait, sd14 and studio. 9 Comments

Photo session - first upload
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).

Photo session - first upload

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!

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Yes, it’s me (above and below).

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There is more to come.
Click below for some more from this very session.

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Sigma SUG Sweden ‘08 - clip 1

Published at May 7, 2008 in 120-300, Movie, dp1, photography and review. 7 Comments

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

Lens and light test

Published at February 5, 2008 in 10-20, 120-300, 30mm, 70-200, Raw Developer, flash, full size, sd14 and studio. 10 Comments

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.

Arkadia studio session | lens test
Sigma 30mm - RD note: Monochrome XDR

Arkadia studio session | lens test
Sigma 10-20mm

Arkadia studio session | lens test
Sigma 120-300mm RD note - colors slightly damped.

Arkadia studio session | lens test
Sigma 70-200mm

Arkadia studio session | lens test
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

Painting colors in air

Published at August 15, 2007 in 12-24, 120-300, 30mm, 50mm, portrait and sd14. 9 Comments

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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


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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.


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50mm - Tiramisu - Linn is crazy about making, I’m about eating. Really nice! Wanna try?

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my mother Painting colors with water

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Emilia - my sisters kid - trying to make a rainbow for my car.


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She was also trying to make me wet - and sort of lost it. :D


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Definately trying to make me wet. I got a few drops on the lens.


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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.


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Who is this? mm.. Not sure why we went down to the railway this time but I had to snap a few. 120-300


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Hultasjön again. This time it’s Elin trying to hold her breath - competing with my brothers. I think she managed 10s or so.


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Not easy to catch something like this. But it WAS beautiful.


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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


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Details with 70-200. It’s fun shooting like this with a zoom.

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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?

XiaoGang stag party - 100+ images.

Published at August 4, 2007 in 120-300, 24-60, 30mm, portrait and sd14. 11 Comments

You’re all invited to my friends very private stag party! It’s my chinese room mate from Kunming / China that’s getting married with a friend of mine. (Maria). Enjoy!

Oh, and don’t judge any lens from these pictures. Vignetting IS my doing. ;)

Raw pack 3 and Flash movie!

Published at July 31, 2007 in 10-20, 120-300, 50mm, 70mm, Movie, RAW, how to and sd14. 7 Comments


Click to download four SD14 RAW files
Download RAW pack 3 now.

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.

Software recommended: Sigma Photo Pro, Adobe camera raw 4.1 or Lightroom 1.1

Norway - 121 images

Published at July 22, 2007 in 10-20, 12-24, 120-300, 30mm, 50mm, 70-200, 70mm, high iso, photography and sd14. 9 Comments

I’m back with some pictures! First some here on the blog, and then if you click the picture you will be moved over to the big version (1000px). And the rest.

Camera: SD14. ISO100 - 1600.
Lenses used: Sigma 10-20, 12-24, 30, 50, 70, 70-200 and 120-300 EX DG.
Developed using Adobe Lightroom 1.1.

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Sigma 120-300 2.8, 70-200 2.8, 24-60 2.8, 30 1.4 and 70 2.8 | EX DG lenses shoot.

Published at July 5, 2007 in 120-300, 24-60, 30mm, 70-200, 70mm, photography, portrait and sd14. 13 Comments

I took Linn out to the railway for a focus test and for your enjoyment I publish some of the resulting images. We had a nice time and rain was in the air. We had to run before we were done.

If you want full size, write a comment about it and I might consider posting. :)
To see them all in a bit higher resolution click an image or click here.
120-300 EX @ f3.5
120-300 2.8 EX @ 300mm f3.5 [edit: color adjusted]
24-60 2.8 EX
24-60 2.8 EX @ 50mm f2.8
70 2.8 EX
70 2.8 EX @ 70mm f2.8 (blue desaturated)
70-200 2.8 EX
70-200 2.8 EX @ 160mm f3.2

Processed using Adobe Lightroom 1.1, camera SD14.