Bob and Olga did a amazing job, I never thought I would fit properly inside any of those images but they managed to squeeze me in! :D They used three cameras, the Sigma SD15, the Nikon D700 and a Sony 850. Nice setup, uhu? :) Click here to see the rest over at Bob and Olgas place!
There will be some really amazing shots made by the SD15 posted later as well.
Sigma announced yesterday the release of the new Sigma Photo Pro 4! In addition there is a Ranger Quadra Ringflash!
Ahh, finally! A ringflash for my Quadra! I can already see how cool images I’ll be able to take with the SD15! :D
2 världar and Broshan (names of above guys) is about to release a new album called Hollywood and asked me if I could take their cover shot. Bob and Olga was staying at my place at the time so we decided to have some fun together. With me and Bob dealing with the camera, Olga took the job of running around with the light, light in this case is my beloved Elinchrom Quadra. It was difficult to find a good spot that was dark enough because we were limited by time – (we had about 30min). Actually we took what was closest at hand, beside the very parking lot that we were at. :) But it worked out great! Olga did a great job of light painting. (above shot is taken with a Nikon D700)
I also went to Brålanda taking this shot of one of my students there – this time using a small LED lamp that someone lent me. and then ending the whole thing with a flash from the Quadra. Above shot is developed using the latest version of Silkypix pro for Foveon. And that shot is a 30s exposure taken with the SD14. Heavily cropped too..
Recently we had some friends over – all the way from Germany. Bob, Olga and Anastasia came for Linn’s birthday (Days later Olga had her birthday as well). Bob and Olga are two well known artists in the Sigma oriented photographic community and our roads crossed many years ago deep in the dpreview forums and later we also met when exposing our photographs at the Photokina fair.
I often discuss work with them, they’re two brilliant artists with a rare eye combined with great technical skills.
Now, during their visit in our home they showed me some photos they’ve taken for Schwarzkopf German Hairdressing Awards – photos were taken back in February but they weren’t allowed to show them in public due to the rules of the competition. But I could have a peak.
Fluid females. Photos taken with the Sigma SD14.
I remember that my first feeling was, oh, such nice light – perfectly lit and great focus on hair. Cool expressions from models, dead cool! Soon I had too look again, something was wrong, (right) and I saw that one of them must’v had some body paint or something. Looking even closer I saw some drops hanging in mid air from one of the girls cheek and I soon realized that it was liquid. I don’t know if Olga perhaps told me before I fully understood but oh how cool I thought it was. Is! If a jaw can drop, this was it!
Now I begged them to tell me how, and we talked for hours about how these shots saw the light of day and I was totally inspired! I’ve been waiting for them to be able to publish them somehow and not only that, here’s an article with a “how to” guide so you can – at least try – your own liquid person!
A huge thank you to Olga Vasilkova and Bob Van Ooik for sharing their work and this article on how they created magic!
“how to” liquid Females article.
V-Studio international. The blog.
480p version. 640×480
720p version. 960×720
Original version. 320×240
What does a 320×240 resolution DP1 video look like when upsized to 480p and 720p? That question has been on some peoples mind and one reader took action and made two versions of the above video. Resized by Dik Hoek with something called “super-resolution”.
“Super-resolution” is a term for a set of methods of increasing image or video resolution. All these methods are based on same idea: using information from several images to create one upsized image. These methods try to extract details from one frames to reconstruct other frames. This approach differs a lot from some sophisticated image upsizing methods which try to synthesize artificial details”. – To get your hands on a 30 day trial version of the software doing this – Click here!
And I can just say, Wow! It really works and it does look awsome! Sure, pixalation etc but it looks very cool indeed and using this you can cut together movies much easier in software such as Adobe premiere and Final cut without coming out with lower resolution video. (useful to take away the hi pitch “cut” sounds) I use the video-part of the DP1 quite often and results are very good. I really love the feeling it gives – something super8 like. :)
What’s next? Said Karlsson’s
Second impressions of the Sigma DP1
He’s another DP1 user that doesn’t come from the world of SD-cameras. He is a professional photographer and journalist – he’s mainly using his Canon 5D but been waiting for something to replace his Ricoh GX100. Said is now an DP1 owner and reading his blog is very interesting as it gives a little different view then the one from me. :) – But maybe best of all, he’s really good with the camera.
Photo and copyright: Said Karlsson
And more from the east: Euyoung’s Soliloquy..
We have a Ricoh GR fan site that have tested the DP1 against the Ricoh’s – it’s in Chinese but interesting. Especially the part where they compare out door, real life images between GRD2 and DP1. Go, check it out. (The good and bad thing about visiting a Ricoh fan site is that they’re really not trying to hide any flaws. :)
Ricoh GRD2: (copyright Euyoung’s Soliloquy)
Sigma DP1: (Copyright: Euyoung’s Soliloquy)
More to come..
[updated] It’s time for the first RAW pack! I think it’s an interesting selection of handheld shots (mirror image on tripod) that shows the ability of the Sigma DP1 in different environments. Make sure you have the Sigma Photo Pro 3.1 (mac) or Sigma Photo Pro 2.4 (PC) installed. The new DP1 raw format is different from the SD14′s. Photos taken in all different ISO speeds and different light. Good for SPP training. :)There is a video out where I play with these shots as well as others. Go to video.
Download 111mb dp1rawpack.zip!
Just saw that I didn’t have a shot of the dp1 in any of my articles. Here’s one. :)
I know some of you may want to know. Lot’s of Sigma specific issues has been solved.
RAW Developer 1.7.2 is now available here:
http://www.iridientdigital.com/products/rawdeveloper_download.html
Continue reading ‘Raw Developer 1.72 released’
Dear Sigma users!
The RAW Developer 1.7.1 update was released today and features completely new image processing algorithms for the Sigma SD model cameras. Hopefully, these changes resolve all crashing issues with the X3F file format as well. The release is available for download here.
Color rendering for the Sigma cameras should show major improvements and special noise reduction processing has now been implemented to better handle higher ISO images from these cameras as well. A couple items of note related to the new Sigma specific changes:
Continue reading ‘Raw Developer 1.71 released. Letter from Brian Griffith.’
I want to show you an interesting comparison between SD14 (4.6MP) and the Kodak 14nx (14MP) which is the only semipro bayern camera that has 14MP and not utilizing a AA-filter (softening filter in front of the sensor).
http://www.whisperingcat.co.uk/scans/sd14vs14nx.htm
Words and scans by David Millier, images shot by and © Erik Muehlberger
Pawel Miszewski wrote an article over at Dpreview.com about resizing SD14 images. He currently used my public RAW files and so should you! :D But if you don’t have the time or energy to do so, read this and look at the result.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1027&message=23941482
My brother owns a mobile phone. A Sony Ericsson K608i. It’s a pretty functional, standard 3G phone with a simple camera. The thing is that he carries it with him all the time, and can therefore take pictures all the time. This guy, named Josef, has a special eye for things that you have to take a closer look at. Please pay his blog a visit and enjoy his art. All his pictures shows something more. If you look deep enough.
Go to josef.webbiton.se
UPDATE! For the moment the “Call me” button doesn’t work, if you know how to get the small javascript used to work, please tell me. Will update this post whenever it’s fixed. Until then,
Please feel free to give me a call! If I’m not at the computer you will be redirected to my mobile phone (you don’t pay anything). If you’re in Sweden you can use this local number: 031-360 7486 and still get to China. Download skype at www.skype.com
EDIT: If you’re a skype user, my user name is “rytterfalk” – add me and we could have a chat some day.
Recent Comments