Even though I’m not into watching sports, I do enjoy a great picture of athletes doing their job.
On the Boston Globe webpage, there is a gallery of the 2010 Winter Olympics currently held in Vancouver, Canada, and you should really consider stopping by for some truly amazing pictures.
Tags: athlete, getty images, olympics, portraits, shooting, skiing
Dansk
English I will now continue my story on my first 10 years, if you have not read the first part you can read it here:
My 10 years with digital photography – Part One
When I got my camera phone
In 2006 I got my first camera phone – And my first thought about camera phones, was that it not good for anything. But the camera in the Sony Ericsson W800i was 2 megapixels, so it was actually just as many megapixels as my old camera that did not work any more.
So it was a nice transition to using mobile phones to take pictures, and now I take a few pictures a day with my cell phone, especially the children when they make fun or you are out and about, because you usually got your phone nearby.
But after a few months where I only had a cell phone to take pictures with, we bought a Nikon L11 at 6 megapixels. It is a very nice pocket camera that we still have, and especially my wife is happy that she can have it. It is okay to bring along when you visit family or friends. I always enjoy looking back at pictures, especially 2-3 years after.
So I used it as my main camera for awhile, nothing serious but for various snapshots.
But my big dream has always been to take portraits, of my family and friends – but also of amateur models. But to arrange a photo session, and then show up with a pocket camera and then try to instruct the model, that’s not serious enough. You must have a proper camera, so you also for the models shows that it is serious. It is fine to have family and friends to pose in front of a small camera but a digital SLR radiates just believed it.
A Nikon D70 for loan
In march 2008, I got the opportunity to borrow a camera, a Nikon D70 DSLR. It was a really good beginners camera, and since I already in mid-2007 had decided to go for a Nikon DSLR, this was a nice opportunity.
And that was despite the fact that I already had (and still have) a Canon SLR camera, not digital but an old analog camera. But when investing in new equipment, would I still buy new lenses for the camera.
When buying gadgets and gear, it’s nice to get a little 3D focus and a little ding and a little pow, I do not just need a camera that tells me when I can take the picture or not, or where everything is controlled manually – it may well have some features, I don’t mind.
And back then it was the Nikon D300 DSLR that looked like the best one at that time, and had the cool stuff. So I aimed for that.
The ability to borrow the Nikon D70, was also a great opportunity to get a knowledge of Nikon’s menu system. I had tried some friends of Canon cameras, an EOS 30D, an EOS 400 and EOS 450, and miscellaneous pocket cameras.
During the same period I began following David Hobby’s blog – Strobist.com on how to work with light, and his angle to move the flash from the top of the camera to an angle that makes the pictures even more exciting.
When using a flash, whether it is built into the camera or put on top of the camera, it gives a very flat light. And angling the flash upward to bounce off the ceiling doesn’t always do to job properly. That’s what David preaches.
But after following his blog and playing around with the D70, I found a group on flickr called Copenhagen Strobist. They had in April 2008 a meeting in Valby Kulturhus (the local cultural community centre), but unfortunately I was unable to attend.
So I began to keep an eye on the group and in May 2008, there was another meeting. This time, a place where one would not pay to participate, so it was open to all who wanted to participate. I wrote to one of the organizers, if it was okay to attended even if you only had a camera. And not all all these fancy things like remote triggers or flash with stand and umbrella, it was.
The first portrait of a stranger
So sometime in May 2008, I went to my first meeting, Copenhagen Strobist Meetup 02 – As it was named.
And there I met some of those who founded the group, and it was damn exciting. Partly because it was professionals, and also people who have photography as a serious hobby. And it was just what I wanted with my hobby, I want to have it as a serious hobby, and make it exciting. I do not need to turn it into a revenue source, but rather have it as a hobby I can immerse myself in.
I met the others and was first tried it there to meet a strange girl, and then take some pictures of her. It may seem cross first time, it is to stand up and then just take some pictures of a person you do not know. But the meeting was regelsat and there was a model contract and good help from the other photographers, so my first portrait pictures were taken that day.
And as the evening progressed, I was allowed to try some of the other equipment. What I tried a little remote shutter release as I had to bring up my blitzsko, and with it I could remotely control his 2 flash bulbs.
All good things come in threes
My third meeting with Copenhagen Strobist was in August 2008 at Mosede Fort in Greve. I brought 2 camera tripods, and used the direct flash to illuminate the models, it’s okay for lighting – but I’ll immediately emphasize that an umbrella does wonders to soften the light.
But after taking some good pictures which I also really pleased that it took some time, the winter session was upon us, and the Danish climate is unfortunately not always great for outdoor portraits. Therefore it took some time before I got back to shooting pictures, it’s a little bad – because I can feel that if the sessions are too far apart, I loose the sense of instructing the models, which is something I still need to work on.
Next post will be about 2009, a year that gave me a lot of new equipment and experience.
Tags: D70, Gear, Nikon, Photography, Strobist
I have a photo session this weekend, and I’m looking forward to it – Expect more images saturday or sunday, including a full review.
A small teaser – location is at Hotel Fox, a very stylish hotel in Copenhagen with 61 individual designed rooms.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.6.1 skulle være den præcist samme som den Lightroom 2.6 der blev frigivet for nyligt, som tilføjede understøttelse til en række kameraer fra Canon, Nikon og andre, samt at rette nogle problemer på PowerPC baserede Mac OS maskiner. Men den seneste opdatering er kun til Leica M9 brugere, alle andre bør ikke opgradere og bare blive ved med at benytte 2.6.
Problemet opstod når man behandlede billeder fra Leica M9, og dette opstod i Lightroom version 2.6, da Adobe udførte ændringer for at forbedre billedekvaliteten basseret på kundernes tilbagemeldinger.
Lightroom 2.6.1 kan hentes til både Windows og Mac OS.
Og hvis du endnu ikke har opdateret din ældre Lightroom til 2.6 kan du hente den til Windows og Mac OS.
The first to two years I took digital photos, my meta data was messed up by my camera software, due to this I store the first couple of years as folders named by who’s on the pictures.
Since 2003 I store my images in the following structure:
{Year}
{Month}
{Day} (And then in some cases a description)
This is how my folder for December 2009 looks like:
2009
12
02
05, A trip to Sweden
17, Circus at school
20, Visiting Uffe and Maj-Britt
24, Christmas
27
28, At the Zoo
How do you store your images?
Tags: How to store images, Image library, Library, Pictures, Store
Januar er gerne måneden hvor diverse hjemmesider og TV stationer kommer med top 10 lister, og her i januar har medierne haft en tendens til at finde højdepunkterne ved de sidste 10 år i nullerne. Så jeg har besluttet mig for at bruge muligheden for at fortælle om mine første 10 år med fotografering, specielt digitalt.
Du skal være velkommen til at kommentere med dine egne oplevelser.
Jeg har altid været fascineret af billeder, specielt portrætter men i mange år manglede jeg udstyret til at forfølge min drøm om at kunne tage rigtigt gode portrætter. Jeg forsøgte engang i 95′-96′ at begive mig ind på spejlrefleks markedet med et gammelt Zenith kamera til 50,- men der var for mange ting jeg vidste for lidt om, f.eks. at lukkerens hastighed kan faktisk være for hurtig til en blitz. Så der røg mange ruller film på den konto.
Men i 2000 bevægede jeg mig ind i den vidunderlige verden af digitale kameraer, familiens første kamera var et Canon S10 på 2.11MP som vi fik i bryllupsgave i Juli 2000. Det medfølgende 8MB Compact Flash kort brugte jeg i 1½ år inden jeg fik mig et 64MB kort, det er lidt ærgerligt at jeg på det tidspunkt vidste så lidt billedernes størrelse at jeg gik på kompromis med det.
På det tidspunkt kunne jeg sagtens finde på at sætte opløsningen ned til 800×600 for at få plads til mere. Bestemt ikke noget jeg kunne finde på nu, hvor det helst skal være så stort som muligt – Og kun i RAW.
En anden ting jeg kan ærgre mig lidt over at jeg så sent fandt ud af værdien i at have meta data i billederne, hvornår det er taget, hvilken brændvidde det er taget ved, om der er blitz mm. Problemet var bare at jeg i langt tid brugte Canon’s eget program ZoomBrowser, til at overføre billederne fra kameraet til computeren. Og hvis man på kameraet roterede billederne, så portrætter stod på højkant når man overførte billeder fra kameraet. Så ødelagde man meta data, men det fandt jeg først ud af efter et par år.
Så i langt tid, de første 2 år tror jeg, har jeg kun meta data på halvdelen af mine billeder, den anden halvdel mangler jeg den information.
Kameraet fungerede godt frem til 2004, hvor det begyndte at blive lidt ustabilt. Der var nogle gange man skulle tage kortet ud og sætte det ind igen. Og batteriet var efterhånden ret smadret, det var af typen NiMH som har problemer med at blive opladt hvis der stadig er spænding. det er ikke ligesom de nye batterier der kan klare at blive ladt halvt op.
Man kunne lige tænde kameraet og taget et par billeder så slukkede det igen, så jeg købte nogle nye batterier og det holdt et halvt år længere, til sidst holdt kameraet helt op med at virke.
I september 2004 købte jeg et brugt Canon EOS650 på Lauritz.com, igen prøvede jeg mig med et spejlreflekskamera. Og det var klart bedre at have et kamera der havde noget automatik frem for mit Zenith kamera, men stadigvæk så syntes jeg ikke at jeg lærte noget ved at tage billeder med kameraet. Det blev gerne til en masse ruller film, som så sagtens kunne ligge i nogle måneder før de blev fremkaldt. Og så kunne jeg alligevel ikke huske ved hvilke indstillinger jeg tog billederne.
Men jeg har da fået fremkaldt de fleste ruller.
Da vores Canon S10 kamera var stået af, og at vi kun havde et analogt kamera i 2005, gør at jeg ikke har så mange billeder i digital form fra 2005, kun omkring 200 billeder er det blevet til.
Det kunne være man skulle få skannet dem ind.
Tags: Canon EOS650, Canon S10, compact flash, Fotografering, Lauritz.com, Lister, Looking back, meta data, RAW, Top 10, ZoomBrowser
I dag har Nikon frigivet en firmware opgradering til mit Nikon D700 kamera.
Her er ændringerne:
- Den automatiske indstilling af hvidbalancen er blevet forbedret.
- Der er blevet tilføjet understøttelse af 64 GB-hukommelseskort.
- Når ISO sensitivity settings>ISO sensitivity auto control (ISO-følsomhedsindstillinger – Automatisk styring af ISO-følsomhed) er indstillet til On (Til), kan indstillingenMaximum sensitivity (Største følsomhed) nu angives i trin på 1/3 EV, 1/2 EV eller 1 EV i henhold til brugerindstillingen b1ISO sensitivity step value (Værdi for ISO-følsomhedstrin).
- Den tid, kameraet venter, før det justerer fokus i henhold til pludselige ændringer i afstanden til motivet, kan nu indstilles til 5 (Long), 4, 3 (Normal), 2 og 1 (Short) (5 [Lang], 4, 3 [Normal], 2 og 1 [Kort]) i brugerindstillingen a4 Focustracking with lock-on (Fokus-tracking med Lock-On). Takket være det øgede antal indstillinger for brugerindstillingen a4 Focus tracking with lock-on (Fokus-tracking med Lock-On) indstilles dette punkt til 3 (Normal) efter firmwareopgraderingen. Juster indstillingen efter behov.
- Skærmen slukkes, når der trykkes på knappen AF-ON, og der kan nu vælges et fokuspunkt ved hjælp af multivælgeren.
- Når der trykkes på knappen MB-D10 AF-ON (med AF-ON valgt for brugerindstillingen a10 AF-ON for MB-D10 [AF-ON til MB-D10]), slukkes skærmen nu, og der kan vælges et fokuspunkt ved hjælp af multivælgeren.
- Punktet Use GPS to set camera clock (Brug GPS til at indstille kameraets ur) er blevet føjet til punktet GPS i opsætningsmenuen. Når Yes (Ja) er valgt, bruges dato- og tidsinformation, der er indhentet via forbindelse til en GPS-enhed, til at indstille kameraets indbyggede ur. Når du har valgt Yes (Ja) første gang, skal du slukke kameraet og tænde det igen for at hente GPS-data igen.
- Når Enable (Aktiver) er valgt for GPS>Auto meter off (GPS – Automatisk lysmålerafbrydelse) i opsætningsmenuen, forlænges den tid, der går, før lysmåleren slås fra, med op til et minut, så kameraet kan indhente GPS-data lige efter, at kameraet tændes, og lige efter lysmåleren tændes. (kun med GPS-enheden GP-1)
- Når On (Til) er valgt for Long exp.NR (Lang eksp. NR), opstod der problemer ved optagelse med lukkertider, der var længere end 1 sekund, men kortere eller lig med 8 sekunder. Dette problem er blevet løst.
- Et problem, der forhindrede visning af fokuspunktet under visning af billeder taget med kontinuerlig optagelse, er blevet løst.
- Når den virtuelle horisont blev vist under live view-optagelse med stativ, og live view derefter blev annulleret, var det ikke muligt at flytte det fokuspunkt, der blev vist i søgeren. Dette problem er blevet løst.
- Da visse hukommelseskort blev indsat i kameraet, blev teksten “CHA” vist i det øverste kontrolpanel, og det var ikke muligt at tage billeder. Dette problem er blevet løst.
- Når eksponeringsindstillingen [M] blev brugt til live view-optagelse via Camera Control Pro 2, virkede den elektroniske, analoge eksponeringsvisning ikke. Dette problem er blevet løst.
Nikon D700 firmware 1.02 – Windows
Nikon D700 firmware 1.02 – Mac
Tags: Firmware, Nikon, Nikon D700
Yesterday Scott Kelby announced the return of D-Town TV, but this time it will be a show dedicated to all DSLR’s – Not just those from Nikon.
The show will air on January 7th 2010.
Tags: D-Town TV, Nikon D-Town, Scott Kelby
Professional photographer Mark Wallace has created a distance demo of the PocketWizard Mini and Flex.
Please PocketWizard – Begin shipping the Nikon version!
YouTube – Distance demo with PocketWizard Mini and Flex.
Tags: AC5 Soft Shield, Canon, Flex, Mark Wallace, Mini, PocketWizard, Remote Trigger, Snapfactory
Fotografen Joey L har lavet en ganske morsom video som hedder “Nikon Girl” og hvis du lige har 4 minutter bør du se den, du skal nok komme til at more dig!
Eller kig forbi Joey Lawrence | The Blog – The Photo Club, my alter ego is born.
Fundet via Nikon Rumors for Nikon entusiaster.
Tags: Canon, Hip-Hop, Joey L, Joey Lawrence, Nikon, Nikon D200, Nikon Girl, Rap
