Kategori: foto
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I am normally a very un-analytical person. Things just are the way they are, analysing them always makes me depressed because there’s so much I can’t change and I don’t need the headache. Put this in a small scale and I think I have figured out why I want to take the kind of photographs…
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The other day on my favourite photo critique forum a photographer posted an image which to me seemed like some improvements could be made. Someone else had the same thoughts as I did and beat me to it, but the photog was not happy – he had taken an image in the spirit of an…
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One of the most important lessons I learned in the early stages of my photography is that you should try remove distracting elements from your image. Just simply keep changing the composition to remove elements that do not contribute to your motif until all that remains is exactly what you want to show with the…
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One of my biggest failings as a photographer is that I don’t have a distinguishable style. I have a common nominator in many of my images, for example in my flower images I try to shoot the flower with extremely blurred background so that the only recognisable element is just the flower. But that is…
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The other week I came across some orchids just barely in the bloom. Without hesitation I pulled out my big gun, attached a 31mm extension tube and set to work. In the viewfinder and on the LCD display everything seemed to be just fine, I was brimming with expectations when I downloaded the images to…
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m just a little bit too critical about my photographs. Every single picture I take, there always seems to be at least one detail I’m not happy about, whether it’s the exposure, the DOF, the composition, a distracting element in the picture… heck, sometimes I don’t know why I took the…
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1 av 60 toppar i Funäsfjällen Hamrafjället var min första 60 toppar topp, fast på den tiden visste jag ingenting 60 toppar. Jag var alldeles ny i fjällvandring överhuvudtaget, hittills hade jag nöjt mig med att fota nära bilen men jag insåg fort att om jag vill nå bra fotoställen, då måste jag gå. Efter…