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Dogwalking in the forest

Apr 27

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Forest flowers I was walking Oskar in the forest today while it was this awesome weather; sunny with clouds, so there was a constant play of light and shadow moving across the landscape. I got a chance to play some more with my polarizer, and I think am starting to grasp when and what difference it makes in a photo, so that’s nice. One thing I noticed is that the sky needs to be really clear to make the clouds pop. If it is this sort of misty clouds the effect will quickly disappear.

I took several photos which I thought would be good, but most of them turned out mediocre. This is the photo I like the most. It shows a small hill top with white flowers on it. I have tried to frame the photo such that a tree frame it on both sides and the roots of more trees frame the top. This gives a framing and a sort of vignette feel to it.

Unfortunately it is not nearly as sharp and crisp as I would have liked, many of my photos turned out that way today. My best guess is that I wasn’t paying enough attention to my focus when I played with the polarizer. Or move the focus a bit when adjusting the polarizer. I will have to look into that later, so it wont happen again…

One nice thing is that the polarizer really saturates the colours and give a green which is much closer to how it felt like with the forest floor all covered in these fresh flower leaves.

/Kristian

New Polarizer

Apr 25

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Polarized flower I just bought a polarizer and a set of ND grad filters. If you are the kind of person who doesn’t know what it is, just regard it as new photo gadgets for me to play around with :) . If you know what it is, I bought cokin ones to so they fit for all me lenses.

The picture on your left is one of the first shots I took with the polarizer on, and it seems to work just fine. It is supposed to remove non-metallic reflections which means it will often remove the highlights and thereby saturate the colours. What it does exactly to the photos, and when to use it I still don’t know. So I have spent the last few days playing around with it.

Returning to the photo on the left, it seems to me that the colours are more saturated than I would have been able to get them without the filter, but this is one of the shots I didn’t shoot without the filter, so I don’t have a direct comparison.

Composition wise I aimed for the rule of thirds, so each of the flowers is on line separating the image in three equally sized parts. I have added a bit of contrast in post processing, but nothing too fancy.

/Kristian

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Team building event at work

Apr 22

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Crab claw This monday we had a team building event at work where we cooked dinner. I took lots of shots at that event, but here are a few of them taken of the ingredients we used.

The shot to the left is a claw from a Norway Lobster and the photo to the right just a whole lot of mixed berries we used for the desert. Both are taken with my 50mm at a fairly low DoF and with only natural light available. DSC04209

We cooked a four course dinner with good supervision and guidance of the chefs at work, and I am quite surprised by the quality of the outcome.

The dinner was yummy.

/Kristian

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A weekend at art exhibition with my parents

Apr 22

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Looking at art I went to an exhibition at Aros to see a photo series by Jacob Holdt called American pictures. I was touched very deeply by the story his photos told about the people he met. I can only recommend it, but it is a light and happy exhibition as a such. I took this photo which I think turned out well and showed what I wanted to show.  (I know you will hate it mom, but it is a really good photo of you :) ).

I am quite surprised or happy that my 50mm lens could cope with the light situation in the gallery.  We also went to see the photo journalist pictures of 2009, and some of them were really inspiring, others were kind of “blah”.

Neo We went to my sister’s place to get some coffee and some very nice buns. As usual I couldn’t resist to photograph Neo who is such a lovely cat and so fun to take photos of. His stare is so intense and so does well on pictures.

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No new photos lately

Apr 21

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Hi Everyone

I know I haven’t posted any new photos lately, I have been hugely hung up by work as well as other interests, so my energy levels havn’t been able to keep up with my desire to pursue the project.

I have thrown the towel in the ring and admitted that I wont be able to post one photo per day, but I will still pursue a picture at least once per week and possibly more often.

/Kristian

A dog’s view

Apr 11

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A dog's view When I walked the dog I saw this scene which was such a nice play of shadows (not sure I quite captured it the way I saw it).  And I wanted to make it into a photo. I tried a few different things, but I didn’t quite get the foreground the way I wanted until I by accident included Oskar in the frame. If nothing else I like the concept of showing what the dog sees.

/Kristian

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Hazel tree

Apr 11

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Hazel Yesterday we had some wonderful weather, so I went into the garden to make a shot with a simplistic almost abstract goal. This was the result.

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More dog and a tree

Apr 9

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Looking up I haven’t been uploading photos the last few days, I have been busy doing nothing. But I went out and photographed some. I gave up on the red/green/blue assignment, it was simply too difficult to find anything interesting.  Well there is still blue in one of the photos and green in the other, but it doesn’t really count.

The photo on the left is taken in a forest with these really big trees, so I played a bit around with how to capture the size, and ended up with this shot.

Oskar Yesterday I went outside to shoot the dog for a while. The weather was wonderful and I had plenty of opportunity to shoot both in sun light and shadow and a mixture of it, so I got to play around a lot with light. It was a good experience.  I got several really good shots, but picked this one as I think he smiles and it shows his personality very well.  I cropped it in a 4×5 instead of the usual 2×3, mainly because I could make it a tighter crop around Oskar and make the stick he is chewing on a diagonal line to give the image a bit of tension.  It is shot with my 50mm lens which yesterday certainly didn’t let me down. It is stopped down a bit and gave me some really good details and sharp images. With a wonderful contrast.

Enjoy
Kristian

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Coloured boats

Apr 7

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Coloured Boats Finding something which is red, green and blue on one photo turns out to be a major challenge. But I guess that is good, at least I had a fun time trying yesterday. I found a greenish boat and a blue/red boat and thought that would be the answer to tuesday’s photo.

With a bit of post processing of the sky, I think the photo turned out really well.

/Kristian

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Things that start with C

Apr 5

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Shy cat Yesterday I was away all day, and brought a camera with almost no battery… How clever is that. Anyway, one of the few shots I managed to get was of my sisters cat hiding from Oskar. This photo turned out decent though.

Today I went on my daily walk with Oskar and thought I would see if I can include some of the primary colours; red, green and blue in all of this weeks photos. Primary colours Today I made an attempt and it was fun to play around with, though the result is “blah”. I have included all three of red stones, green grass and a somewhat blue sky.

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