Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Have you ever wondered why some photography are lacking of the “wow”-factor and look flat while other shots may look so great that you drop? Maybe some photos look so amazing that you can’t even believe they’re real. Well that may be just the case…
(click the image for additional info about it)
I’d like to share a series of images where you can see the development of one of my photos (above) from the original file to the image which hopefully does indeed have some of that “woahness”. My post processing starts off with Lightroom’s basic brightness, color and contrast adjustments and after that I do dodging, burning, cloning etc. using Photoshop. It may sound pretty simple – and it is – but I think it really makes the difference!
What do you think?
Tags: 17-40mm, 430EX, Airsoft, Post processing, Softaaja, ST-E2, Strobist
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Got my first umbrella – a silver bounce umbrella – and this is me testing it for my first time. Thanks to lioncat and my lovely sister for hanging around in front of the camera.
Canon EOS 350D, 2x430EX, ST-E2 (see the lighting setup below)
1/200 sec, f/5.0, ISO 100
Tags: 17-40mm, 430EX, Gallery, Jorma, People, Portraiture, ST-E2, Strobist, Umbrella
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
It has been so long since I last time was photographing airsoft so I was very excited about it! Even though there were only Janne, Väinö and I.
This time I was also really inspired by James Nachtwey’s war photography (link) and I tried really hard to archieve somewhat same feeling to some of my shots as he does. I also got to shoot with Väinö’s old film camera which was very exciting too. Those pics will be avaible later though…
Oh, and by the way. Piu piu piu is like pow pow pow in English. 
Canon EOS 350D, EF 17-40mm f/4L, 430EX, ST-E2
Tags: 17-40mm, 430EX, Airsoft, Gallery, ST-E2, Strobist
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Decided to try some extreme panning: APS-C sensor (1.6x factor) + 300mm lens = 480mm. Also tried a post processing method in Lightroom which resembles the Dave Hill look a bit.
Canon EOS 350D, EF 90-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM, shutter speed 1/60 sec, camera on tripod
Tags: 90-300mm, Gallery, Panning, Post processing
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Pitkästä aikaa tuli taas hinku sotkea jotain piirustuspöytäni kautta tietokoneruudulle.
Pottunenää piirtäessä olisin mielelläni pysähtynyt jo luonnosmaiseen viivapiirustukseen… Kehityksen kannalta on kuitenkin olennaista tulla ulos omalta mukavuusalueelta, mikä merkitsi minulle kuvan värittämistä. Ah ja oih tätä luomisen tuskaa!
Tags: Drawing, Graphics tablet, Painting
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