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There’s an interesting discussion over at NPN about ”fixing” your subject, i.e. manipulation before pressing the shutter (as opposed to manipulation in post-processing). If any manipulation needs to be done, I prefer to do mine before I take the picture. I just like the idea of getting it right in the camera. But the dilemma…
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If I thought that yesterday was windy, then today was hopeless. All I could do was to scout, so I was all the more happier when I discovered some long-lost flowers nearby. I was actually looking for the round-leaved wintergreens (Pyrola rotundifolia) and found one (count them, o-n-e) where they were plentiful last year. At…
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Midsummer’s Eve is traditionally a half day off here in Sweden, but at some workplaces you get the whole day free. My workplace is one of them. Looking at the weather forecast, it was going to be the usual midsummer weather – rain. Only problem was that it was not raining in the afternoon like…
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Somehow I’ve managed to avoid seeing any cranberry flowers until two years ago. Since then, I’ve somehow managed to avoid shooting them, but I was really hoping to correct that mistake this summer. It figures that when you’re looking for them, they’re nowhere to be found… So I stopped looking, and suddenly found a whole…
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I’m proud to present my first photo exhibition this summer! My loosfoto.se site that is dedicated to this little village of ours has gained some momentum and I was asked if I’d be interested in exhibiting some of the photos in the local library. I thought that it would be a great opportunity to reach…
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My goal (wish) for this summer was that I could find two new species of orchid. This region is favourable to many orchid species and we even have some rarities, although naturally not even close to the extent that is found on Gotland (big island off the south-east coast of Sweden). But, I’ll happily settle…
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Or as the Swedes would say it, Humleblomster och en humla. I was just setting up the rig when this bumblebee showed up. Knowing that it will not wait for me to finish setting up things, I fired the shutter and hoped that I got the exposure, sharpness and composition. Exposure, yes. Sharpness – good…
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When I was aching for the 300mm lens, it was not only for the smooth backgrounds but also for the smooth foregrounds. An experienced photographer can quickly pick the subjects and backgrounds. I can pick them, slowly. But then you have this thing about foreground, and now suddenly you have three things to worry about:…
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In some respects, May felt like a cooler month than April. April had a warm spell that lured us into thinking that summer was around the corner, then when May was being typically May (we had roughly normal temperatures most of the month), we thought it was really cold. What was not normal about May…
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This is in response to Michael Brown’s call for self critique posts. * * * The calypso orchid is very rare and a protected species that likes mossy conifer forests. We have a location where this flower grows a few miles from where I live but I only found the place recently, and the whole…