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Gas station by night

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SD14, ISO50, polarizer, 2.2s, F8, tripod, one shot, darkroom mac
Click for bigger. (image captured a couple of hour ago.. it was beautiful sky!)

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Jeannette & Magnus. Part 3 - Together

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 2 - Face

This is the second part of the series around Jeannette & Magnus Wedding. This part contains images from a hotel room in Malmö. The bride did her own make up and her best friend was there to assist her. (you saw her in the first Hair serie) - btw, the bride is from Venezuela.

Many of these shots are ISO400 to 800.

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Jeannette & Magnus. Part 1 - Hair

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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High ISO raw for download

Lot’s of talk lately about SD14’s high ISO capabilities and I wanna give you some files to play with. I also put together a list of software that you can use in order to develop. Most of them has a trial version.

This time I will not give you as a full package! You select the photo you want to view as RAW and you download that particular shot. Slightly bigger quality shots of these are available on my flickr account. These are developed using Raw PhotoStudio 1.59 for OS X

Developers:
SPP3 (PC) and SPP2.2 (Mac): Go to website
Photoshop Lightroom & ACR: Go to website
Arcsoft PhotoStudio Darkroom (PC): Go to website
RAW PhotoStudio (Mac): Updated link! Go to website
Raw Developer: Go to website

ISO800: Click image you wanna download X3F (RAW) version from.
(Thanks Chunsum!)

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ISO1600:

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Image: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 (in case there would be a problem)

Raw PhotoStudio in Action

Developed with Raw PhotoStudioThis is a pretty different look from the Lightroom developed version. I found Raw PhotoStudio (also called Arcsoft PhotoStudio Darkroom) to do a great job, a Sigma Photo Pro 3 on steroids. You have great color control, great picture control, and you can play with the picture in a way similar to Lightroom. The way of the slider! BTW, click on picture for full size - be aware. Not very sharp. :) Should have brought a tripod or not used ISO50 so much.

Developed with Raw PhotoStudioNot a very good photo BUT - Here we have one that is adjusted for more correct vertical perspective. Great stuff! You can even remove both distortion and CA (Chromatic Aberration). Very easy to use and VERY fast. Someone said it’s made by the same people who gave us SPP3 and in that case this would be the perfect upgrade for us SPP lovers!

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Developed with Raw PhotoStudioISO50 - wonderful wonderful ISO50. Thanks you Sigma for bringing this to us!
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Developed with Raw PhotoStudioLast pictures are ISO500 (cheep is ISO400) you have great vignetting control and the only downside to this software is the pretty lame sharpening control (not terrible result but..) and maybe black and white control. It works but I’d like RAW Developer implementation better.

I’ll see if I can do a video about this software. It’s worth it. Oh, and full size of all images available on flickr. .