Mutants

This famous mutant is obviously a Photoshop product. A well known course objective for most classes. The images used for this mutant is copyrighted by Moderskeppet.se, where I took a very good Photoshop class a while back.









The apple, however, is not a Photoshop product, but a nature mutant. It might be the result of the Tjernobyl disaster many yeas ago. As a curiosa you might also want to know that I finally got good usage of the government pension funds, at least the orange envelop that the statement came in, which I used as a background for this shot. Right now, I don't think the fund is worth much more then the envelope to be honest.

I will soon post again. The next shoot will be one outside my comfort zone. I took a short, but very fun, studio photography class. Fun but difficult, there were so many things to think about. Here is a sneak peek of what we did.



Until next time, keep shooting.

Drama

The theme for this post became Drama. This was one of those photography occasions when you don't know what to do with the images. The lunch shoot session was pleasant but I wasn't sure what to expect when reviewing the images in Lightroom. All I was trying to do when shooting was to find some interesting angles and add to the drama with contrasting colors, mainly blue and orange. So, I just let the sliders in Lightroom play and let the post processing make it's own way.

You can watch the complete set of images by clicking here. Please critique my images below or at my Flickr account, both negative and positive feedback is welcome. Until next time - make sure to pick up the camera more often.

Boats

For this post I decided on a theme - boats. Some of the boats where captured in winter landscape and some in spring landscape. It's just that time of the year when you really don't know what season you will end up in. You can watch the complete set of images by clicking here. Please comment on the images below or at my Flickr account, both negative and positive feedback is welcome. Until next time - happy shooting.

Kvarnfallet

Once again I visisted the very nice area of Kvarnbyn. About a month ago a shot the demolition area in the neighborhood and I have also done other parts of the area. I would recommend any photographer to spend a few hours there to get interesting photographs. It works well with all kinds of weather since you don't have to inlcude the sky if you don't want to. The old type of environment works well for black & white too.

This time I focused on the water from the lake Stensjön above the falls as well as the upper parts of the fall itself. I opted for both black & white, as well as color photos. The last image of the set is an HDR, using Photomatix and Photoshop. I did not shot three separate images, but instead used the RAW image to produce thre images with 1 EV separation in Lightroom.

Since the beginning of this year I only shoot RAW, having the camera set to lossless compressed RAW, which seems to be OK.

I hope the images works well for you too. I'm really happy with this set. As you might have seen lately, I only publish the few best images, which is my future goal as well, unless the image set is a documentary where I would like to tell as story or just share images from an event.

I have a tool recommendation for you. If you want cool web image viewer I would strongly advice you to install Cooliris. With Firefox, it works nicely as a plug-in for both images and videos.

You can watch the complete set of images by clicking here. Please comment on the images below or at my Flickr account, both negative and positive feedback is welcome. Until next time - happy shooting.

Contrast & Views

The theme for this post is Contrast & Views, which goes both for sizes and colors. I had my eyes on a large red ship in the harbour of Gothenburg for a few days, which I thought would be nice in the sunset against a blue sky. Finally, I brought my camera to work the other day to caputre the ship on my way home. After a few other harbour shots I saw the ship leaving the harbour and first thought I would miss the whole thing, as I realized that that it would only add action to the images. I was lucky. I had plenty of time to capture the ship from several angels and with different foregrounds and backgrounds as it took a long time to get it out of the harbour. I learned that the Nowegian ship M/V Tijuca made its maiden call early this January. With a total length of just over 760 ft it has a capacity of unbelieavable 7,500 autos.

I also took the opportunity to shoot some images of one of the tallest buildings in Gothenburg, known as the Lipstick. I even went up to the top floor and grabbed a few shots of the view. That would be quite and office location to have.

You can watch the complete set of images by clicking here. Please comment on the images below or at my Flickr account, both negative and positive feedback is welcome. Until next time - happy shooting.