Requested update here we go.

Theese are 2 new skateboard shots.. Shot with the Flash on a tripod straight from the side.
Edited in Camera raw and PS..

Skateboard again

New skateboarding images from this weekend.

Work

So my first image for Max.se has been published on their website.

http://www.max.se/restaurants.aspx?id=33

Gonna go shoot another restaurant today. Hopefully published by next week.

Also psyched about the multisport thing coming up soon.

Nothing to write about

Sorry again. I really got nothing to write about. Work is demanding like 1000 % right now so im basicly at work until sleep and then wake up and do it all over again.

Skateboard pictures

Here are the skateboard pics from sunday.. Turned out ok.

Skateboarding

Ok so yesterday i had some big plans to go shoot some highkey landscape shots by the ocean.
My car wasnt really onboard with the plan so i went skateboarding instead. Got some nice shots.
ill post them later tonight or tomorrow. It was a great oppurtunity to try out the cactus v4 some more and also the positioning of the flash when shooting skateboarding.

High key landscaping today

Im going to hit the ocean today.. all day and just try to find something nice to shoot.. Its my first free day in forever. Gonna try to shoot all images Highkey today..

High key is when the image is dominated by the light tones. your histogram almost flat left and center. and all the action on the bright part.

backpack, Peleng 8mm, Holga

My birthday´s coming up and i have to choose what i want. Not cause i know im gonna get it but because i need to wish for something.

This backpack ?
http://www.cyberphoto.se/info.php?article=464031

This lens ?
http://www.rugift.com/photocameras/peleng_fisheye_nikon_lens.htm

or this Camera
http://www.rugift.com/photocameras/holga-120gcfn-white-camera.htm

Help me!

Sorry theres no posts today..

Sorry for the noneposting. Ive been looking for something to write about. Im mostly in planning and not executing my plans.. Im gonna get a Lomo camera!

Portfolio preview imagesize

The imagesize of the preview is not right thats why its a little blurry.. i just like to hear what you think about the layout and design!

Portfolio and some work.

Been working really hard on getting my portfolio ready for the web. I also had a meeting and got hired to cover a multisport competition for a magazine. I have to shoot the qualifier at 26 august and the finals at 17 september. I also have to find a model for a muddy covershoot and a location for that shoot where i can have mud and still use backgrounds and flashes.

Heres a preview of the portfolio. Tell me what you think.

Photography, Slow shutterspeed

Had a great day today.. Went out on a drive with the D2X and went to shoot some locations ive heard about.. The pics are below. The top 3 are HDR and the bottom one is regular.

Cactus v4 flash trigger review

I dont have the time to perform a elaborate testing of this gear.
Need to get a Wordpress design done in Photoshop then break it apart
in CSS and put it on the web.

Here is a review anyway.

Horrible, Ryan Sheckler, Jereme Rogers

Dave hill tecnique

Been too busy with work today. Couldt write that review i promised yesterday.. Had a 20 minute break and came up with this. Think im starting to get the hang of it!

Tell me what you think while i go to sleep. And ill read it tomorrow and write that tutorial i promised.

Cactus v4 flash trigger rewiew

Ill been trying out this Flash trigger for 4 days now.. Ill post a full review tomorrow!

Dörr A3, Dörr HB - 36

Ok so i went and picked up some gear yesterday and i think for the low price i got the best gear avalible.

This is my review of the Dörr A3 tripod with Dörr HB-36 Ballhead.


First of The Tripod. Its great Sturdy like a 400 $ tripod. with all the features of a much more expensive one. It can easily handle equipment up to 5 kg. and maximum height is 157 cm.
Then how low can it go ? You can push it all the way down in a split. so with the head your camera will be about 15 cm above ground. You can also invert the centerpole for even closer shots.
What about grip ? First the rubber feet of the tripod has a great basic grip. But then if your in really harsh conditions you can screw the feet up to expose spiked grips under them. Really great. Highly recommended. Its priced at about 100 $ in sweden.

Now to the ballhead.
Its a fully panoramic ballhead made from magnesium alloy i think. And this really suprised me in a good way.. basicly go for this rather then buying a gitzo. No matter if your a pro or amateur. Just go for it. Really good quickplate thats holds your camera tight. and the ball goes 360 degrees so you can shoot any direction anytime. The wheels sets the stability of the ball in different directions. and they can really hold it tight. No problems with my nikon d2x and 200 mm optics + flash. I highly recommend both theese products.
They get a 5 out of 5 possible.

Portfolio ranking, Top 25

1 Nicolas Henri

2 Dave Hill

3 Matt Stuart

4 Ken Rockwell

5 Denis Rouvre

6 Erik Almas

7 Maciej Duczynski

8 Koen Demuynck

9 Martin Klimas

10 Cosmin Bumbut

11 Christope Huet

12 Phillip Toledano

13 Jill Greenberg

14 Branislav Kropilak

15 James Nachwey

16 Robert & Shana Parkeharrison

17 Corey Arnold

18 Joey Lawrence

19 Holger Pooten

20 Dan Tobin Smith

21 Andrew Zuckerman

22 Michal Karcz

23 Ralph Gibson

24 Michael Muller

25 Tim Flach

Sorry theres no posts today..

Ive been working really hard today. My boss from the HQ was at my restaurant to check up on me and give me feedback on my work.. so i really didnt have the time..

Got alot of new gear today. Tripod filters and skyports. Reviews are to come.!

Lucis art

Been workin in lucis art all day instead of working on the Portfolio roundup..
Think the images turned out nice.. Specially the first one. You really need to see
them fullsize to get a good look.

Video tutorials

great site for Videotutorials http://www.blog.bluehourphoto.com/videolibrary/
Shows you how to create stunning images trough thw whole post production procedure.

Ranking of portfolios

Tomorrow early ill post a Ranking of what i think is the best designed Portfolio.
Also ranked on the quality of images. For example is a portfolio poorly designed but
has great images. it wont rank #1 anyway because the Design is so important for a portfolio to keep your interest going. if you come to a ugly site youll probebly check out like 2 pictures and then be gone. Come to a great design and you might stay to check out entire galleries and such.

Lucis art tutorial.

Get the Dave Hill kind of look with lucisart.. Im gonna try it out tonight and see how it works..

http://axidrain.blogspot.com/2008/09/lucisart-tutorial-get-that-dave-hill.html

http://www.davehillphoto.com probebly the best portrait and comercial photographer today.

dont forget

http://www.vanilladays.com/hdr_tutorial/

Best tutorial ive ever found!

HDR

This is the HDR i made for max.se think it turned out pretty decent. Dont know if there gonna use it or one of the regular flat images i gave them.

Any way i think it turned out great after some 11 hours of noise removal and touching up.

HDR tutorial

Ok ive done some background research. There´s already too many Hdr tutorials out there on the www. So ive decided to just find the best one and post a link to it instead.

http://www.vanilladays.com/hdr_tutorial/ is really good. there you got it all explained from point A to Z.

About the strobing and so many other teqniques ill do the same. The last the internet needs is more and more of the same thing.

Im going HDR hunting tomorrow. Thinkin the trainstation might be a good place.
ill get my salary wednesday. Then ill go crazy shopping.. Tripod, Filters, Radio transmitters and stuff.

Ive completed the pictures for max.se ill post the HDR tomorrow.

HDR

Im having a hard time with this HDR image im creating. Though Noise Ninja is one hell of a plugin i still have some noise left.

The problem with noise ninja is it blurs the areas with noise and i really dont want blur on a image for a nationwide company. Think ill have to go oldfashion on this one and Remove all the noise manually in PS.

Sucks to be me. Having to Remove noise for about 10 hours and then instantly go to work for another 10 hours.

Hopefully ill be able to post the Edited image sometime next week.

Made some tests on a HDRI i call "The boat" Im a noise killer. Only takes like 7 hours to get it done
.

workin on the HDR tutorial

I got so much to do and so little time to do it. Im working on my portfolio and ive set the deadline for it to open 31 of Juli..

I have to Edit pictures from a wedding and from the shoot for max.se

Im also workin on the HDR tutorial and a strobing tutorial.. Strobing is the tecnique behind Dave Hills awesome Images.

check out www.davehillphoto.com

Also look at the amazing HDRI made by Mapgoblin on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/mapgoblin/142350388/

editing.

Im editing the pictures from the shoot. Ill have to get a permit to post them.
Kind of hard browsing through 350 images of the same thing to select the best one.
One turned out to a nice HDR image.

I love working with HDR. Really sets your creativity free. Its just the thing about noise..
Got some noise removing software yesterday called Noise Ninja. Its a real timesaver.

Ill post some tutorials for HDR later on.

Working hard

Today i have to do a photoshoot for a nationwide company and i also have to do some regular working at max.

Tomorrow Mom and Dad are coming to visit with my sister so tomorrow will be the first layed back day in ages.

I need to go try out some tripods next week. I need a new one that can hold my gear without falling over.

Ive mostly been looking at this one because the price is sooo low.
http://www.cyberphoto.se/info.php?article=2841P

tell me if you had any experience with that one. They tell me its stabile for gear up to 4 kilos.

Some pics from a Trip to kåddis

Too slow uploading on this connection.. More landscaping tonight when i get home!

Tamron 17-50 Review by Bob Atkins

http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/reviews/tamron_17-50_review.html

I bought a new HP 550 notebook today with 4 gb of ram so i hope to get some editing done this week..

Ill upload som fresh pictures tomorrow.

el festo del skellefteå

Long time since my last post. Ive been busy working on my portfolio.. Soon done..

Im currently in skellefteå at skellefteåfestivalen.. Sort of hungover today but ill live.

Goin out tonight aswell Just need to sleep a little more..

Got the lens and the flash today

Allright so i got the Tamron 17-50mm f2,8 today. Its great. ill post a full review once used it in field. Also the flash seems nice. havent got the i-TTL kontroll to work. but it works fine with TTL. (through the lens) review later on that too.

Ive decided on the lens

Ive decided to go with the tamron lens cause it seems much sharper then the sigma lens
the price is about 4200 Swedish kronor. Complete with the flash and some filters it comes to
6000 kronor.



hope this works out!

Old skate and snowboardshots from the D60

Ironicly this is the best one and its 10 years old from my Canon powershot A10 Compact.

Le testshots from makinon 28mm F2,8 with Nikon D2X

Testing out the closerange sharpness. Looks fine even at F2,8

This is totally unedited. Love the Saturation. A little vignetting but i can live with that.

This shot is a little dark. But still proof of a well functioning lens.

New Lens. Makinon 28mm F2,8

I Always been sceptical about lenses that are stuck on one focal lenght. I always though a zoomlens is better to buy because of the good focalrange you can get out of them. Tis was not the case with this lens. I tested it for a few hours today and its great. Probebly thes sharpest lens i ever had.

The bad stuff: Aparture only goes to f16
Its totally manual

If you need a full review on the lens. Just send me email,

Ill post some testshots from my d2x with this lens later tonight.

what lense to go for ?

Tamron AF SP 17-50mm F2,8 XR Di II LD


Sigma EX 18-50mm f2,8 DC Macro HSM

They seem to be basicly the same. ive read some stuff about both of them that are good and less good. The sharpness seems to e quite close to canon L series lenses.

Anyone who can decide for me cause im having a hard time!

New Camera and lens.

Ok i just got my ordered Nikon D2X Camera.

Some of its featues are a 12,4mpixel Cmos sensor with a 1,5x focallengt multiplier.
Highspeedmode with 8 exposures per second. Iso High = 3200 Iso low = 100 Its pretty smooth.
For Canon nerds its a mix between eos 1ds mark 2 and 1d mark 2 since its high resolution and highspeed abilities.


I also orderd a wide angle Makinon 28mm f2,8 lens to start out with.I will get a zoom in the range of 17 - 50mm and a 8 mm Fisheye. Also a couple of flashguns to go with it. Ill start out with http://www.cyberphoto.se/info.php?article=DAF42N that one (swedish site) seems to keep up with the much more expensive nikonflashes.!

Pics from the old kit and some kit specs.

First post! Welcome!

In the sample pics below i used a Nikon D60 with an AF-S DX VR NIKKOR 18‒55mm f3.5with a Sunpak pf30x flash and a backup 55-200mm Tamron lens.

This kit worked out pretty good to start with but i decided to get a new one so now im using a nikon D2X Camera Ill post kit updates later!

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