Candle light Todays topic is probably absolute nonesense for those of you who doesn’t speak English, but there is no direct translation of the word “hygge”. In this case the closest meaning I refer to is cosy and having a nice time inside while it is snowing outside.

I had to stress my creative mind today, as it was already dark outside when I got a chance to find the camera, so I decided to look for something inside. I found a cute little table with a flower and a candle on it, and began to shoot it from different angles and with different light settings from the two tungsten lamps I had nearby in my hotel room.

I got a few decent shots and got to try some different set ups of these two simple things, with different light and different compositions. Even though I was a bit annoyed with having to take a picture I ended up having a really good time. Proper white balance

My choice today is hardly edited. It is not cropped nor rotated. I have darkened the shadows a bit, to turn the brown background into a black background. The composition is one where I zoom in on a detail of something. I this case a candle. I have got some of my best shots that way. But I hope I will improve to be able to take good photos of other things as well.

One thing I learned today, is to pay attention to all settings at once. A thing I still have problems with. I deliberatly put the whit balance for tungsten, as both my light sources were tungsten lights. And then I later decided to pop the on camera flash, without changing the white balance, the result is as you can see on the photo to the right. Something with a “slight” blue tint. Even though it was an accident, I kind of like the picture, so the lesson might as well be expanded from “remember the correct white balance “, to “you can use white balance for creative purposes”.

/Kristian

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