http://www.rytterfalk.com Digital film user since 2002 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:26:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/07/02/50mm-compared-nikon-vs-sigma-vs/ The Sigma 50mm F1.4 in my hands during my hands on test. Photo taken by Gerhard Joren + Nikon D3. http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/06/30/50mm-14-in-my-hands/ get PicLens http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/06/27/piclens-my-flickr/ The above shots are wide open - shot at F1.4 and processed this time with my good old favourite - Raw Developer. Not sure why I jump from developer to developer like this. Maybe I'm crazy. The next shot with the flower is more or less wide open, shot at ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/06/27/sigma-50mm-f14-wide-open/ 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 ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/06/24/sigma-50mm-f14-first-look/   Second wedding with SD14 and DP1 hand in hand. Same workflow as before. SPP PC (on Mac) + Aperture. I will link to halfsize images later - but for now you'll have to do some clicking if you wanna see more details. Btw, We had a great time! :) And ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/06/23/kristofer-och-anneth-wedding-session/ So you think it's a hazzle to buy Windows XP and VMware in order to try Sigma Photo Pro 2.5 on your Mac? Well, try Crossover! - some sort of vierd software that makes it possible to run windows software without the need of windows - in OS X! ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/06/23/crossover-mac-running-spp-25-pc-version/ I got lots of mail lately regarding my strange choice of running PC version of SPP rather then the native SPP 3.2 on my Mac. Well, as you will see in this video there is a good reason for me to do this. Watch this video in better quality. Hopefully some ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/06/23/spp-mac-32-vs-spp-pc-25-on-a-mac/ Another wedding session, and I'm happy to announce that DP1 is a great b camera! :D Linn had hers with her all the time (she assist me) and she took quite a few really nice shots. I used mine as well and I got more keepers from the DP1 (compared to amount ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/06/21/daniel-maria-wedding-with-sd14-and-dp1/ About a week ago I received the much awaited (at least by me) close up lens made by Sigma. I must say that I was happily surprised about the little leather box that came with the lens! Soooo retro and beautifully crafted! WELL DONE SIGMA! Now, is the lens as ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/06/19/sigma-dp1-aml-1-lens-review-in-video-and-pictures/ Went out with family and friends yesterday late evening and played in a nearby lake called Hultasjön. The 120-300 is wonderful to work with. So fast and easy to handhold. It's very well balanced together with the SD14 body. Most shot at ISO400 and ISO800. Manual mode. Directly from SPP3.2 mac. I ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/06/02/yesterday-together-with-120-300-iso400/ Not much to say, have a session tomorrow and wanted to know how much I could trust my 30mm wide open. Some shots turned out quite nice so I decided to share. :) All images are uploaded as full size (converted automatic via 1001 flickr uploader - in case you ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/05/31/sigma-30mm-f14/ 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 ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/05/30/crazy-studio-session-sd14-dp1-part-1/ Three shots using HDR function on the SD14 (bracketing +1.7) - then using Bracketeer to bring them together. I haven't bought the software yet so there is a big sign saying "Demo mode" in Swedish. :) http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/05/26/bracketeer-hdr-from-last-night/ Trying to embed using "high video quality" but can't so please click here and also click "watch in high quality" - if not it's not worth watching. :D Recorded with DP1 and in the end there is a "stop motion" part recorded with my SD14 + 50mm lens. Did not use ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/05/24/wang-fei-music-video-dp1/ This one is saved as "double size" = 18.5MP res. Click to open each picture in full size. (or more) I went to this very place with my Danish friends recently (SUG meeting) but felt the urge to go back and see if sunset would give some better pictures. To be ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/05/13/dp1-at-sunset/ The movie is self explanatory, not sure I need to write anything here. I do thou need to tell you one more time how to deal with your movies AFTER you're done shooting. Btw in this particular shot you see some flickering and that's due to 50Hz light. :) (or ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/05/10/dp1-1000w-super-resolution-love/ Listen carefully in the end and together with this movie you can go and create your own great DP1 epic thing. AEL + WB + Close focus + ND = great stuff! 1. Lock white balance to dominant light source (or whatever you want) in this case “sunlight” 2. Move camera around ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/05/07/dp1-movie-school-movie/ What is a nice, sunny spring day on the cliffs at the swedish west coast like without a cold beer? Well. Ole tried to get rid of it using a tire - but soon decided to pick it up again. Watch the action here! http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/05/07/a-tired-beer-sug-clip-3/ This was FUN! I took a lot of photos this way too, a cool way to frame your subjects but a bit tricky to balance it all. One hand filming and trying to keep sturdy and control the polarizer at the same time. AND walk. I'm not a woman am ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/05/07/dp1-polarizer-movie/ 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 ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/05/07/sigma-sug-sweden-08-clip-1/ Using a filter holder + Cokin filters you can play with black and white the good old way. First I tried with filter and then I tried the photoshop / lightroom way - I used the predefined color filter option that is available in photoshop in order to make a ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/04/20/red-blue-yellow-color-filter-tobacco-tone/ My little sister Anna Ingvarsson went away to shoot nature and lent my DP1. She came back a day later with lots of really nice shots - I'm only going to show you one because that's the only one I dealt with (making it black and white). I think it's ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/04/20/nature-in-black-and-white/ I sometime visit a local school to spend time with local youngsters - most of the time I bring my DP1 and a snap a few. Always at ISO800 (badly needed). Colors looks ok but black and white is just so much better! These have had some vignetting added in ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/04/19/local-gangsters/ My little brother just had his first kid - a little fellow named Jakob. These are just a few shots taken with the Dp1 the very first time I saw him. :) I'm a very proud uncle! (a few more over at my flickr account) http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/04/19/jakob-new-born-friend/ I'm just having a smaller vacation from blogging. I'm also waiting for some good light for photos. Especially street photos. I just upgraded my blogs engine to Wordpress 2.5 - and I'm looking into different possibilities to make my site a little bit better without scaring people away. :) http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/04/14/im-not-gone-d/ [edit - Sigma today announced the new version for PC and Mac here as well as first DP1 update] I've been lucky enough to get my hands on a beta of the next SPP 2.x and for those of you being irritated of green corners I can now tell you that ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/04/07/new-spp-due-soon-first-preview/ Thank you Sigma for making my SD14 better and better! First you gave me ISO50, and wonderful colors that comes with that - and now 2 minutes exposure!! I love you! :D Will try and show images as soon as I've upgraded. I was soooo tired two minutes ago but ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/04/06/sd14-firmware-107/ Red is a new camera (brand) embraced by directors such as Steven Soderbergh and Peter Jacksson - Red is the new cool thing in the world of cinema. And what you probably didn't know - the DP1 is like a tiny Red. Extremely simplified, but still. The Red has a sensor-size ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/04/02/dp1-is-tiny-red/ I was asked to stand in the Sigma booth at another photo fair here in sweden, Elmia Foto & Video the 4-5th of April. I will show the Dp1 and SD14 to the public.  If you have any nice shots that I could use then send them to carl@rytterfalk.com in ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/04/01/attending-photo-fair-elmia-foto-och-video/ Just checked some statistics for my blog and for the last 30 days 114 countries has been represented among my visitors. That's HUGE! Back when I only wrote about photography in general and other SD SLR's (SD9/10/14) I had something like 35 countries on that list. Last on was Zambia ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/03/30/wow-statistics/ Hultasjön One way to use WB Another way same road.. Göteborg by rain Just a little something before I go to bed. ND filter + DP1 used. http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/03/30/cold-and-wet/ Works great! :D Perfect lens protector too. Just the metal plate needed looks cool enough to have on full time. http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/03/29/dp1-cokin/ EDIT, now with sound! Original post 12/3 2008 Sigma will come out with a easy to use solution within SPP itself or by firmware, until then we can do it our self's in Photoshop (or other software such as Gimp). http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/03/27/dp1-green-corner-fix/ Soon I will participate in a photo fair here in Sweden and for this I now have two DP1s - Trying to make the most out of this I connected them via the screw mount in the bottom via a small wooden (chop)stick. Then I started movie mode on both ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/03/26/sigma-dp1-stereo-movie/ I felt for some time that the DP1 have much better battery life than I expected or felt at first - mainly due to the fact that my initial shooting habit changed some with time - my interest in zooming into every single detail in every image has now matured ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/03/25/dp1-battery-test-part-ii/ Alright. I took a deep look into my growing DP1 video library and made a music video out of it. Upsized to 640x480.m4v (which is the iPhone format). Some quality is still lost but I think you get a feeling for what the DP1 can do. It's not a HD ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/03/24/first-dp1-music-video/ http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/03/23/sigma-dp1-used-for-interview/ Stopped the car and brought my little buddy out in the winter night. It's cold he said and asked me to make it quick - I thought to myself - ISO800 could work. He looked at me with his big black eye - scared that I would go all the ... http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/03/19/dp1-8s-at-iso800/ Found this while reading a post on Dpreview. Oh, How much I want one of these! Click here to go to their site. (in Korean) http://www.rytterfalk.com/2008/03/18/leather-case-for-dp1-must-have/