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Just received the new Sigma 50mm F1.4 and due to heavy sunshine I couldn’t really in a fair way try it wide open – but even if the above shot is taken at F4 the bokeh is amazingly sweet.
I was thinking it would be bigger. a whopping 500g piece of glass could have been heavier. It’s pretty short and very fat somehow – gives a very cool impression – big opening that tell you I’M BRIGHT.
Alright, another shot at F2.5 and a shutter speed of 1/3200s. A friend holding a reflector to even out the light a bit. The widest I could go was F2 – so here goes another shot at F2.
(This one is not perfectly focused, it’s kind of hard at F2 – hard training lays ahead)
I will try hard the coming days to find other things to photograph and hopefully I’ll be back with some nice pics.
Linn is pretty active in some Chinese photo-forums and they have these missions that they give eachother. This time it’s about coffee and well, I became assistant! Nice. :D These are two of the resulting pictures, the rest can be seen over at Linns blog – put together in a very Chinese fashion with texts etc. We did that i Apple Pages.
Oh, and in a couple of days my USB sound card will arrive and I can do a screener with RD. I’m thinking about making a series. My problem so far has been that I can’t use my Hackintosh because no mic in. there is one but not supported. So a USB sound card will solve this and make everything much more fun.
AND one last thing. Jeff Sickel has begun the hard work with a Quicklook plugin for X3F files and all I can say is WOW! I had a chance to try it and it works better than I thought. Thanks Jeff. It will become public when Jeff is done. Update! Jeff is DONE! :D see http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/01/22/apple-quicklook-x3f-plugin/
Continue reading ‘Fun with coffee..’
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.
Continue reading ‘Dry Ice and Liquid Nitrogen evening. Part 2′
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.
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?
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
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.
Ever since Sigma photographer Olga Vasilkova showed her amazing bubble work I wanted to explore the world of bubbles myself so last night me and Linn took a small, pretty square, glass flower vase and pulled the SD14 trigger. Lenses used was Sigma 50mm and 70mm EX. Click each image for bigger version.
This one should be viewed at 100%, I will later change link to original size. Remember that the vase used had pretty thick glass walls so it was really a very bad setup but result is still so nice. Pretty amazing what you can do with a little bit of water. :)
This was acually the very first image and there has been some cleanup done in the background. You can find a different version of the same photo over at Linn’s blogg.
This last photo was from another serie that I will show more from later and I’m again inspired by the work of Olga. The SD14 is such an amazing tool in the studio! Quality is amazing and prints are even more amazing. If you look carefully you see that red is blown-out but that’s just my tweaks fault. I just don’t have the energy to go back and make it nice again. hehe. There is a redish tint in the background, it IS part of the image. :)
[Bubble photo talk over at www.99.se and www.fotosidan.se ]
My little sister has some pets, they’re growing fast and soon their tails are gone. (or built in) so I had to take these images tonight, at least she wanted me to. So here goes. Small mini tiny frogs. Five close ups.
Camera Sigma SD14 – Lenses 50mm and 105mm Sigma Macros.
I underexposed by mistake (hard to use flash when something is this small) bounced to some paper that I asked Linn to hold and as I moved she had to move too. Not very easy. So these are much brighter than my originals. Lucky me I shoot RAW! :D
Continue reading ‘Very tiny frogs – Five Macros’
Linn as many other girls has this talent of making small things, Linn can spend hours on Google to find out best possible way of making the doe and shapes. All flowers you see here is made from homemade something that makes it eatable (some sweet stuff). They will be used for a cake or something (I turn 30 the 11th of May) and she’s now practicing her skills and wanted me to take some pictures for a Chinese wedding/birthday cake site.
Me myself and I are really impressed and I thought I could share these pictures from last night with you all. Images shot with Sigma SD14 + Sigma 50mm manually in evening sunlight (just before sunset) I used an A3 sheet as bottom and reflector. (just bent over the flower).
Oh, and EVERYONE wanting to come for my birthday are WHOLEHEARTEDLY welcome to do so! Anyone! I will treat home made ice cream cake and some chinese food (made by Linn). 11th of may 2007 at Malmers v 5 – 446 33 Älvängen. Sweden.
[EDIT] Movie is up!
[Edit 2008 | 1 | 23 - Now I look at these shots and I can clearly see that with todays software (both SPP 2.3 and RD 1.72) I could make better developments. So if you happen to download these are RAW - don't be surprised if they look better! :D /Edit]
I went to Denmark yesterday invited by the Danish photographer Alroe to record my third “review” of the SD14. This time in his studio. It will take a couple of days to finish the movie but until then I want you to see some of the resulting images that came out and in full size and possibly soon as downloadable RAW files. (depends if you’re able to use a decent raw converter. ;)
I must say that I’m very happy and very satisfied with the result of our shoot. mr Alroe is using a Canon 5D with L lenses and that made this shoot a little more interesting. Now, we don’t want you to kill your eyes with pixel peeping so we didn’t take “exactly” the same shots, maybe next time. I’ve heard that Sigma SD14 images are too sharp and might hurt your eyes.
Last in this article you can read some more about my inital 5D feelings. I was using the latest firmware 1.01 for my SD14 and it’s a GREAT update. Colors of the LCD is now very nice and speed is also improved. It’s overall a better feeling doing photography with it. Many of these studio shots are shot at ISO200 BY MISTAKE! But, Bo also did on his 5D so for the sake of review it’s a good thing. But I’m sure result would be even more impressive using ISO100. Now over to some of my images.
One more thing. Lenses used was 30mm, 28mm, 70-200 and 50mm Sigma EX lenses. My ABSOLUTE favorite in the studio was the 28mm, it just nailed focus all the time and it’s very “correct”.
Continue reading ‘[img] SD14 in the Studio together with 5D..’
Link broken, take a look here for some of them: http://www.pbase.com/rytterfalk/minority
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Sigma SD9 – Nikon 50 1.4
Underprivileged..
Originally uploaded by rytterfalk.
Outside places where people with enough money strives you often find unfortunate children like these two. They often have a written note beside them telling their story, often a heartbreaking story about deceased parents and nowhere to go. Their only hope is to find some support from people passing by. It\’d5s a true tragedy and it\’d5s really hard to walk by. They’re not many, some organizations are working hard to get kids off the streets, often with local volunteers or from other countries.\
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Feel free to comment, maybe you have ideas about what to do, how to help?\
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I have no organization behind me but maybe I can do something more then just talk. (My Chinese is still not good enough I sometimes use a translator.) I want so much to give them some hope. Whatever reason, this IS no life for anybody.\
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There are organizations that gives shelter to kids, if they at the same time becomes beggars for their protectors, owner. There is many stories about this, about parents that brakes their kids bones and the more terrible they look the more income they bring. I know very little about the truth about all this. I just see them and I know some of them and their stories are often reliable and about a born handicap. Rarely mind related.\
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If you’re Chinese and read about this, please feel free to comment. Maybe you have a story to share?\
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