Jan 31
I was visiting my sister and her boyfriend, to celebrate that he just got a new job. So I took the opportunity to get a few shots of the cat. This is one of the better, and I like it. There are a few more in the gallery if interested, as well as a few shots of my sister’s boyfriend’s niece.
You can see a few more photos of the two here
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Jan 30
Today I took a shot at my work place, or at least part of what my company owns and operates. That I work right next to it is more of an random occurrence. But I think it looks beautiful when I can see the mirror image on the silent fjord on a nice sunny winter day.
I don’t want to go into the discussion of climate here, lets save it for a time and place.
Normally I don’t like a horizon in the middle and many people will agree with me that it looks boring. In this case though, I did it on purpose, since it gives me a symmetrical image with the mirroring effect in the water. So once in a while I think it can work.
Normally though, I would likely try to aim for the horizon at either one third or two thirds into the image to follow the rules of thirds.
It was fairly hazy so the image didn’t have much contrast, so I tried a few different options for post processing, this one I am fairly happy with.
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Jan 28
I didn’t post anything yesterday, I got home from work at around 3am, so I kind of didn’t feel like it. But I am making up for it now, by posting what I think is a great shot of Oskar. I took the day of today, which meant I was home while it was light outside, and what a wonderful sunny day we had. I caught Oskar during his morning nap on the carpet in the hallway.
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Jan 26
I went to Aalborg University to have a talk with my supervisor, and when I saw martin, who I share an office with speaking on the phone I thought it would be a motive for today.
I chose to make it black and white in post processing since it made the subject stand out a lot more, and the colours didn’t add much to the photo. So by removing them the photo was made simpler. The subject is clear in the image, since there is only one thing in the foreground, and the background is fairly uncluttered. Besides the subject is dark on a light background which is another reason is stands out I think.
The windows makes a frame in the photo which I think is a good thing, the perspective should be corrected, or rather I should have taken one step to the right when I shot the photo. Too late now though. It follows the rule of thirds, which was not as much of a concious choice as Martin just standing there, but he is standing on one of the lines in that grid.
Apart from my laziness to correct the perspective I think it is a pretty good photo.
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Jan 25
Oskar and I went golfing today, but we couldn’t find the ball after the first shot. It is really hard to find in the snow. So I went to take some photos instead during the sunset.
Finally the sun is shining again, I think it is a week or so since I saw it last, and apparently I need sun to exist. At least I am pretty happy today with the nice weather. It is cold, but that can be dealt with by an extra layer of cloth.
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Jan 24
Today’s image is of my favourite subject – Oskar. I tried capturing him while he was eating one of his bones, and the combines low light with him frenzied on his bone created kind of a blurry photo. Best thing I could produce today though.
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After the first post about workflow, I now have the photos in lightroom, and the default selection is the photos I have just imported. So now I am ready to work on it.
This part of the work is shamelessly stolen inspired from others, but it works for me so why reinvent the wheel. I have several runs through the images, where I each run narrow them down and exclude the images not worth working on.
1. First run through is a very basic and quick run. By quick I mean I don’t use more than 5 seconds per image.
To start this, double click the first image from the day to get it up in a larger view. For each photo I either pick or reject it. This is done by pressing “x” for reject or “p” for pick. That way it is marked with either with a black flag with an x in it, or a white flag.
If you press the capslock before starting this, you will automatically go to the next image once you have either picked or rejected the image.
I have multiple reasons for rejecting an image, it can be camera shake or horribly wrong exposure. Or whatever reason you can come up with.
Once you are done press “g” to get back to the overview.
2. Now I do one of two, either I delete the rejected photos right away, or I hide them for now. (Yes I do delete photos, there are no reason to keep irrelevant data, it just helps filling your harddrive).
If I choose to delete them, in the overview I press ctrl+backspace.
If I choose to just delete them now, I put on a filter to only show photos marked with “picked” flag. This is done in the “library filter” bar above the grid of photos. (see image) 
3. The next run through I mark the remaining images with 1-3 stars. Like the first run through I choose the first image and get it in a large view I then press the buttons 1-3 depending on the score I want it to have. (Pressing capslock, advance to the next image as well).
Depending on how many photos I have, I hide the photos with less than three stars, in the same way as I hid the rejected photos.
4. Once this is done, I am now left with what I feel is worth working on. I now take a tagging round. I go through each photo with three stars and tag them with keywords.
I usually add place, names of the people in the photo along with event and subject of the image, and not least whatever strikes me as relevant for the photo. It can be either done either by typing keywords into the box on the right hand of the grid view, or by clicking the keyword list. I type in what I find obvious and then scroll through the list of keywords I already have to see if I missed something obvious.
I just realised you can have a hierarchy of keywords, which I have started to use. I don’t want many levels, but I have a top level keyword called “Location” and then in that category I have all locations I have tagged. This makes the overview in the keyword list a bit easier.
You can arrange the keywords in the list by dragging them around.
While I am tagging each photo I usually also go through the other information on them, giving them a title, maybe a caption if that is relevant and so on and so forth. This seems like a tedious task, and it can be. But the keywords will follow the photo later on, so doing it now is just going to save you time later on.
5. Once I am done with tagging all the photos I start post processing the most interesting one. I wont cover the post processing in this series.
6. After I am done post processing an image, I give it 3-5 stars (press 3-5 button),
This was a rather long run through my work flow. I hope you can get some inspiration. One of the things I think is good about the multiple runs through is that I see the images more than once, and already after the first run through I have an idea of what I like and what not. And sometimes this run through triggers something inside me which I feels but can’t explain. The other comment is; this workflow is not set in stone. I don’t do it like this every time. Some times I am too eager to process one particular image and so on. But it is a good template for me.
Next time I will cover the export for the web phase of the my work flow.
Jan 23
I promised I would try and make up for the missing photos during the weekend. Here is a photo of Slotssøen in Kolding. People are having a good time on the ice ice skating, playing hockey and just fooling around really enjoying it since it is so rare that we have frozen lakes in Denmark. Koldinghus makes up the background of the image.
The light on the photo is nothing special, and that usually makes a bit of a dull image, but I tried to increase the contrast as much as I could to get the people and Koldinghus to stand out from the snow.
I re cropped it a couple of time, until I got the people into a more central position, so than in the beginning. That helped to move the focus towards them I think. Light could be better, but all in all a decent photo telling a story. And a scene I don’t shoot very often.
Wintery greetings
Kristian
I know I didn’t manage to post a photo every day of this week, due to my workload. I did manage to shoot a few photos that day though, so here they are. 
The first one is a tower of some sort right next to the hotel I lived in. It seems to be used for mobile communication. What I do like about the photo is the framing of the tower between the trees, and the very evenly lid look of it.
The other photo is an abstract photo where I try to play with light and dark during the night. You figure out what it is for your self 
Non of them are post processed, and non of them are my best work. But it does work as a reminder to for me to slow down and take a deep breath every once in a while, even when I am busy.
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Jan 22
Today was pretty grey and foggy, but I got an idea for capturing my friday subject the great belt brigde. This time I did it from the Funen side. A bit on the less colourful side unlike what I typically do.
Have a nice weekend
Kristian