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SD14 at night clubs..

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Carl Rytterfalk

on December 22, 2007

in 30mm 1.4, Flash, Portraits, Raw Developer and Sigma SD14

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I’ve started to take photos at night clubs here in Göteborg for a online magazine called www.aveny.se - my first night has come to an end and first images are up. I have never done something like this before and I must say I was a bit nervous. Not because of meeting people but because of equipment. I heard I needed at least ISO400 and some wide fast angle lens to do the job.

Vimmel / Lounges

I wanted to do this my way and equipped myself like this: SD14 + 30mm + 500DG flash + a paper bounce card on top of the flash (home made) - the flash pointed straight up and only reflecting light would hit the subject.

ISO at 100 and M mode with an aperture of F1.6 and shutter speed of 1/4th of a second. I tried ISO50 but highlights was too much clipped. I will try ISO200 and 400 next time. Just to see what difference it makes.

Developed all using Raw Developer 1.72 and lucky me the new version just came out with great reds and wonderful dynamics. It was pure joy to adjust colors.

The 30mm was set at F1.6 and I was really relying on AF as it was way to dark to really see anything useful in the view finder. I took a quick look and more than 90% was perfect focus and by that I mean perfect. NO shot was trashed because of out of focus problems. This is a huge different from my 30mm before calibration. Even my Flash worked like magic. Bam Bam Bam.. :D Before this first night I wasn’t sure this would a good time for the SD14 - but clearly I was wrong. All images could probably be printed at A1 and look amazing.

SD10 revisited.

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Carl Rytterfalk

on December 13, 2007

in 30mm 1.4, Full size, Raw Developer and Sigma SD10

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I tend to forget that I lived in China for a very long time and during that time I took a huge amount of pictures all in raw. Since then lots have changed and new raw developers has popped up such as Lightroom, Sigma Photo Pro 3, Darkroom and Raw Developer. I decided to test one of them and this is SD10 images with the Sigma 30mm lens converted using Raw Developer. Click each image for a full size version. If you have time you can dig and find the old versions from back then. :)

Awesome 30mm + RD

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Carl Rytterfalk

on December 3, 2007

in 30mm 1.4, Portraits, Raw Developer and Sigma SD14

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The 30mm is awesome. Both pictures are ISO50, the one of dad was badly underexposed and thanks to the ISo50 it had enough to be brought back to life. I used Raw Developer for both shots. Click for full quality. (worth it)

These are in badly mixed indoor lightning. (and outdoor as you see in blue)

thru his extra eyes..

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Carl Rytterfalk

on November 29, 2007

in 30mm 1.4, Portraits and Sigma SD14

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I like mirrors and glasses.. :) Here’s my little brother Per.

Sigma 30mm @ f1.4 - SD14 ISO50.
Developed using Raw Developer 1.71

Jeannette & Magnus. Part 3 - Together

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Carl Rytterfalk

on October 15, 2007

in 10-20, 28mm, 30mm 1.4, 70mm, Adobe Lightroom, Arcsofts Darkroom, High ISO/ASA (400+), Portraits, Sigma SD14 and Wedding sessions

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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.

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Jeannette & Magnus. Part 1 - Hair

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Carl Rytterfalk

on October 15, 2007

in 10-20, 28mm, 30mm 1.4, 70mm, Adobe Lightroom, Arcsofts Darkroom, High ISO/ASA (400+), Portraits, Sigma SD14 and Wedding sessions

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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.

SD14 ISO50 - ISO800

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Mushrooms yet again. :D

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Carl Rytterfalk

on October 1, 2007

in 30mm 1.4, 70mm, All, High ISO/ASA (400+) and Sigma SD14

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I went out with mom yesterday (sunday) and we decided to pick some mushrooms again. Linn was working which was too bad, nature showed us her very good side. Weather was British and colors very strong - and light low. grrr - sun actually came through one or two times and I tried to do something when it showed but we often sat in the car when it happened.

These are developed using Lightroom, I did develop side by side with SPP3 but Iwasn’t sure which one I liked the best so I went for the easy ride. I did try Raw Developer again and I still like the way it handles colors but it’s so much fiddling to get there. Too much work and too little time.

I will tomorrow end my “product” job - it’s now done and we’re very happy with the result. Next up is a week long real estate photo session.

Horse: Picture taken by Elisabeth Ingvarsson. She didn’t know how AF worked.

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Bohusläns museum - Exhibition by friends

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Carl Rytterfalk

on September 23, 2007

in 30mm 1.4, All, Portraits and Sigma SD14

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Yesterday I attended the opening of a new exhibition held in Bohusläns museum in Uddevalla. Kinesisk samtidskonst - identitet och förvandling. I just wanted to show some of the pictures I took and share with the artists and you - I know they will have a look here now. :) I will add (added some) info and names for each picture later. Some more to see at my flickr page.

Janeric Johansson - Artist and friend.

Xiao Gang. Room mate in China - Now living in Göteborg. Skilled musician.

Linn found a photo showing the fast growing city thingi - and oala! She point her finger at the very apartment that she lived in back in Kunming! (We don’t know the photographer)

Maria Ådahl

Anna Frid

Magnus Frid, Anna Frid and Wu Yen Xi (spelling?!)

Luo Fei - He tought me so much back in China. (words in Chinese etc) Very interesting artist - here doing performance - showing true love by washing anyones feet.

(Luo Fei - here washing my feet!) - Photo by Linn.

Janeric Johansson talking to friend.

A little something from yesterday

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Carl Rytterfalk

on September 3, 2007

in 30mm 1.4, Full size, Sigma Photo Pro and Sigma SD14

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Went to a market this weekend, weather was terrible. I took lots of photos of old tractors, engines, horses etc and I might post some more later but this one first (I know I posted some more, but I wasn’t satisfied with colors, still working on my SPP skills). Full size for download. SPP3 used as developer. Aperture used for adding watermark. I know, a bit boring. :)

Now I’ll eat something nice with my Linn in Göteborg. Jaij!

Visiting Per Bäck | Art of Macro

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Carl Rytterfalk

on August 27, 2007

in 30mm 1.4, All, High ISO/ASA (400+) and Sigma SD14

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A couple of weeks ago a senior named Per Bäck and his lovely wife comes to my garden and shared a cup of coffee, they’re both young looking so I was very surprised when they told me they’re both a bit over 80 - they had this look and way that told me that they had something more - something to teach. (I think they saw the same thing, but other way around - you know hopeless case sort of thing) While talking we realize that we have an interest in common and that is the love of photography. (I like to think I saw it in their eyes).

Per told me that he’s been taking photos of flowers and that his wife would look them up in fauna-pedias etc. Sometimes they would search for a special rare something or do experiment to find out how they work.

See below image showing this small little thing that is said to find its way on animal hair and move on - Per made this experiment by using his wifes hair and see if it worked as planned. :)

He used Yashicas and lot’s of extension tubes and flip-floped lenses and homemade focus assist holder he was able to take something like 10:1. Quite amazing and very difficult. He said he sometimes had to work an hour only to get focus right for ONE single shot.

Above picture: With a 2x extension tube + 200mm lens + flip-flopped 50mm lens + you get terrible shutter speeds and VERY very small part in focus. very shallow DOF.

It was terribly hard to focus with the focus ring alone so he built his own focus assistant. A beautiful wood + Plexiglas creation to support his work.

After being at his home in Alingsås - drinking coffee and eating delicious sandwiches I have this urge to take macros. Strange huh? Not very. Problem is that I don’t have the equipment (read lenses) nor the full knowledge how to pull it together in order to get closer than my current macros says and that’s only 1:1 - pretty far from 10:1. Any good inputs from you guys out there?! Is there any possibility to use Yashica lenses on a SD camera with Pentax converter? They’re not screw mount or anything.

All pictures in this article is taken with SD14 using Sigma 30mm lens. ISO400 used most of the time. To see two more photos of cameras and flowers:

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Hammarkullen - suburbia.

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Carl Rytterfalk

on August 24, 2007

in 30mm 1.4, Portraits and Sigma SD14

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Today I went together with the Finnish artist Otto to Hammarkullen - Purpose, to find out what type of questions you should have for a “svenskhetstest” swedishness test. I filmed and took photos. We had a great time and we’ll continue tomorrow but tonight I wanna show you some shots. click to bigger.

XiaoGang and Maria wedding pictures

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Carl Rytterfalk

on August 19, 2007

in 12-24, 30mm 1.4, 70mm, Adobe Lightroom, Full size, Portraits, Sigma SD14 and Wedding sessions

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Click above picture to get full size view. Lens: 12-24 @12mm with some plastic in front of the lens.

[edit, text updated #2] We had a great time at the Wedding and I shot something like 700 photos - 83 of them are now published. Their full names was Zeng Xiao Gang and Maria Ådahl - the new name is unknown. [EDIT: Putt Mr and Mrs before, no other changes are made] :D I was too busy taking pictures to listen. Maria, maybe you could add a comment about it?! These pictures will now find its way into a picture book.

The black corners a due to a filter thread that I use sometimes with my wide angles. (I got it very recently) It’s something that could be described as a “sky saver” a faded one stop saving plastic. I felt very happy about using it because it gave me the feeling of 6×6 (you can easily see the black left / right frame on some pictures). It’s much more fun to balance the picture this way (and I got more powerful skies at the same time).

I still wonder why there isn’t any 35mm digital SLR’s that has a square image. That would be so nice! You would never have to think in terms of landscape / portrait any longer. Just like in the good old days!

Click the above picture to see them all. or click here.

Painting colors in air

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Carl Rytterfalk

on August 15, 2007

in 12-24, 120-300, 30mm 1.4, 50mm 2.8, Portraits and Sigma SD14

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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

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?

Raw Developer - X3F vs DNG

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Carl Rytterfalk

on August 13, 2007

in 10-20, 30mm 1.4, 70mm, Developed with:, Raw Developer and Sigma SD14

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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.

Left: DNG - Right X3F

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XiaoGang stag party - 100+ images.

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Carl Rytterfalk

on August 4, 2007

in 120-300, 24-60, 30mm 1.4, Portraits and Sigma SD14

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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. ;)

Norway - 121 images

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Carl Rytterfalk

on July 22, 2007

in 10-20, 12-24, 120-300, 30mm 1.4, 50mm 2.8, 70-200, 70mm, All, High ISO/ASA (400+) and Sigma SD14

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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.

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Carl Rytterfalk

on July 5, 2007

in 120-300, 24-60, 30mm 1.4, 70-200, 70mm, All, Portraits and Sigma SD14

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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 2.8 EX @ 300mm f3.5 [edit: color adjusted]

24-60 2.8 EX @ 50mm f2.8

70 2.8 EX @ 70mm f2.8 (blue desaturated)

70-200 2.8 EX @ 160mm f3.2

Processed using Adobe Lightroom 1.1, camera SD14.

[img] Village photo session

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Carl Rytterfalk

on June 18, 2007

in 28mm, 30mm 1.4, All, Flash, Printing, Sigma SD14 and Studio

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The 24th of May I was invited to hold an open photo session for the locals in a smaller village in Sweden. To view the whole session (around 90 images) and view images in higher quality please click here: CLICK ME!

Camera: SD14
Lenses: Couple of EX.. (see gallery for info under each image)
Software: Adobe Camera RAW 4.1

[img] Finally Sven & Jeanettes wedding pictures.

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Carl Rytterfalk

on June 17, 2007

in 12-24, 30mm 1.4, 70-200, All, High ISO/ASA (400+), Portraits and Sigma SD14

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I’ve been fighting with my new monitor today. It’s a used Lacie 22 blue IV and I’m using a spider2 (thanks Thunderlance) to calibrate it. But I did it when it was bright and well, I wasn’t very satisfied with the result and I’ve been draging pictures back and forth between my laptops screen and the Lacie in order to see what it could look like IRL.. hehe Feels like I should only work in darkness with CRT’s..

This time I decided to give Camera Raw CS3 a chance and it worked pretty well. Good color control but a bit noisier. I never turned on noise reduction, maybe that’s why! ;) Black and whites looks far better using SPP, I think I will renmake those later.

ISO ranging from 100 to 800. Flash used in church sometimes. oh, Thanks Daniel Premberg for helping me with that reflector. :D

Lenses: All kinds of.

[RAW] Sigma SD14 & 5D RAW for download!

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Carl Rytterfalk

on April 15, 2007

in 28mm, 30mm 1.4, All, Full size, RAW, Sigma SD14 and Studio

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Carl Rytterfalk Fotografi

Archive for the '30mm 1.4' Category

SD14 at night clubs..

SD10 revisited.

Awesome 30mm + RD

thru his extra eyes..

Jeannette & Magnus. Part 3 - Together

Jeannette & Magnus. Part 1 - Hair

Mushrooms yet again. :D

Bohusläns museum - Exhibition by friends

A little something from yesterday

Visiting Per Bäck | Art of Macro

Hammarkullen - suburbia.

XiaoGang and Maria wedding pictures

Painting colors in air

Raw Developer - X3F vs DNG

XiaoGang stag party - 100+ images.

Norway - 121 images

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

[img] Village photo session

[img] Finally Sven & Jeanettes wedding pictures.

[RAW] Sigma SD14 & 5D RAW for download!

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