Fall at the woodland lake

Took a walk the other day around a woodland lake near our house to capture the fall colors. It was "hard to resist" not going as the weather was wonderful, pretty much summer temperatures and I actually felt a "need" to make photos, something that sadly doesn't happen too often these days. I even brought out my Nikon SLR with the "big lens" and the tripod, not just my handy Sony Nex-6, which have been an easy-to-bring-photo-friend lately - maybe too easy. All seven photos can be viewed here. Enjoy!

Closing day at Liseberg

The summer season came to an end (in early October is just crazy!) at the local amusement park Liseberg, so the family decided to enjoy the summer like weather, have a dinner, a few roller coaster rides (not me though) and watch the fireworks. I took the opportunity to make a few low light photos, this time with my Sony Nex-6. Handheld and mostly with the 55-210 mounted. I even shot a few videos, which doesn't happen too often. All 25 photos and two videos can be viewed here. Hold on as we take off.

Fender fun

Spent Saturday enjoying an awesome gig by Jelly Belly's at the River Café in the evening and Fender exhibiting at the Fuzz guitar show earlier that day. 

Was challenging my Sony NEX-6 in the low light, but I think it stood up to my expectations pretty good - just as Fender and the band did. Not something I do very often, but I even gave the NEX-6 video feature a shot when Jelly Belly's kicked-off their gig. Watch the video first and then the photo slideshow, or just the individual photos.

Thanks Fender for a great day!!

Mats' Gift Wrap Vernissage

We where invited to Mats' Gift Wrap Vernissage, which also included a Jazz consert with Lars Jansson and his son. Mats' artistic skills are amazing. He always surprises us one way or the other, no matter if it is clothes, food, gift wraps or just having fun together.

All photos are taken with my Sony NEX-6, with no flash and no tripod. Ultimately I had made the photos prior to the vernissage with better equipment, but it is always an interesting challange to capture the moment live. There is some noise due to the high ISO (3200), but I think it works pretty well with the environment and the mood of the event. However, and external flash is on the wish list and might soon becomre a new member of my photo toy collection. Who knows.

Link to the photos

Soppis 2013

Årets Soppis-promenad avlöpte precis som vanligt i sol, lite kylslaget, god mat på vägen, fantastisk soppa vid målet och otroligt trevlig sällskap från start till mål. Det som var lite ovanligt var att årets promenad förgylldes av två yngre förmågor som visade att framtiden för promenaden är säkrad i många decennier framåt, vilket gjorde dagen ännu bättre. Ser redan fram emot nästa promenad. Tack Mona och Anders för en kanondag tillsammans med era vänner. Glimtar från promenaden kan avnjutas här.   /Monica & Mikael

Windras dop

Mitt i julstöket fick vi chansen att dagen före julafton lugna ner oss och ha det mysigt tillsammans i samband med Windras dop i Lindome kyrka. Släkt och vänner samlades till en fin stund för att bevittna den unga damen döpas i finaste klänningen. Windra skötte sig alldeles utmärkt till mammas och pappas glädje. Storebror Winton underhöll såväl i kyrkan som i församlingshemmet. Tack för ett härligt minne tillsammans. Klicka här för att titta på bilderna.

Mats 50

Ojdå, ytterligare ett 50-årskalas. Ett fantastiskt roligt, välorganiserat och unikt kalas med god mat. Massor av trevliga släktingar och vänner till Mats satte pricken över i'et. Klicka här för att se alla 337 bilderna. TACK FÖR ETT KANONKALAS MATS!!

Vi återkommer separat till er som lämnade er emailadress för att få en digital kopia på bilden på er i trappan. Är det någon annan som vill ha en kopia på en bild är det bara att höra av sig till mikael.orbratt@gmail.com.

Kramar från Monica och Mikael.

Peter 50 år

Vi var bjudna på Peters 50 årskalas, en seglats till Väderöarna med övernattning. Ett fantastiskt kalas med massa trevliga och roliga människor, underbart god mat och en del äventyr bland master och tampar. Tack Peter för en härlig helg!!! Klicka här för att se alla 279 bilderna.

Handheld HDR

Thought I would try out producing a handheld HDR. This is the result after post processing in Photomatix and Photoshop. Bracketed seven images, with a 0.7 EV difference and threw away image 2, 4 and 6. Images 1, 3, 5 and 7 went into Photomatix and the final result was adjusted in Photoshop which came out as a 615 MB TIFF file. Can't do too many of those before the hard drive is full.

Until next time, make sure you pick up the camera often. Happy shooting!!

Need for Speed

Visited the local amusement park to catch high speed face expressions. It takes maaaaaany photos to get the expressions you want. Amusement parks are great to do people photography. No one can really stop you from taking these shots and most people don't even know... :-).

I have never seen so many mothers almost killing their kids. Just watch the photos, you wonder if the kids are screaming because they are afraid or because their mother is strangling them.

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 you pick up the camera often, and play with the features in the camera - you will always come up with something cool.

Happy shooting!!