This article is part of the series “2020-10: New in Tromsø”.
Sometimes it’s worth to go out and make photos in the late evening, especially when it’s full moon, some northern lights and one has a room near the Telegrafbukta in Tromsø.
This article is part of the series “2020-10: New in Tromsø”.
Ok everyone, let’s talk about making photos. I say “making” instead of “taking” on purpose. Photos are not lying around just waiting for you to pick up some of them. It’s you yourself that has to create a photo – or as I use to write to “make” it. It’s about two things: Your camera and your choices.
The better your camera equipment the more choices you have. Each piece gives you additional possibilities whether it is a telephoto lens, a flashlight or a sturdy tripod. Sometimes the choices can be overwhelming. Which photos do I want to make today? Landscape? Architecture? Sea birds? Night shots? People waiting at bus stops? Some of them? All of them? Phew!
I want to become a better photographer. To get better you have to practise. For me practising mostly means focussing on a certain aspect of the whole. This weekend I drastically reduced my possibilities. Instead of using my Nikon DSLR (digital single lens reflex camera) I used my new iPhone. Instead of the normal camera app I used an app called Lenka which only takes black and white photos with a fixed focal length (which means you cannot zoom). The only freedom I took was to post-process the photos by changing the contrast and the aspect ratio (and a bit more).
Here are the results. I’ll show the photos without any detailed comments.
I’m not content with the last photo. Maybe it’s because the house lacks three-dimensionality but I’m not sure. Beside from that it was real fun to use my self-set restrictions to get another kind of view on the motives around.
But no practising without a goal! My goal is to use the black-and-white photo app to train finding good motives and even when using my DSLR making full-color photos to be able to imagine how it will look black and white.
And you? What do you think about these photos? Criticism is welcome.
This article is part of the series “2020-10: New in Tromsø”.
This article is part of the series “2020-10: New in Tromsø”.
This article is part of the series “2020-10: New in Tromsø”.
Not the most impressive aurora, not the greatest shot, but I’m satisfied anyway because I know there is more to come.
This morning it drizzled and rained and the summer colours seem to have vanished. So I took it a step further and started to take black and white photos today. I was not the only one outside in this weather. Two professional fishermen cruised in the mouth of the river Umeälven in their open boat followed by a flock of seagulls.
This is the beginning of a “rainy weather” black and white series. Let’s see how often I’ll go out and take photos in rain or storm.
And you? Do you like to take photos in bad weather or do you prefer the sun?
Just 300 km from home – bright sky and temperatures round -25 °C – finally a winter as it should be in Northern Sweden.
I shot theses photos in Solberget tonight. Here I will stay some days and visit the winter market in Jokkmokk.
Do you know those unboxing videos, where people film themselves how they open packages containing the newest camera lens or smartphone? Yesterday I did almost the same.
Since last week it’s possible to order a selection of my photos as fine art prints in sizes up to 75cm×50cm. Of course I was very eager to order a photo for myself to get a look and touch to the Hahnemühle “PhotoRag” paper. On Thursday I picked up the package and yesterday I did some unboxing photos.
The packaging is impressive since the photo is not rolled up but packed flat. In the cardboard there is another stable cardboard. Within this there’s the print, wrapped in tissue paper.
The print and the paper is of a fantastic quality and I’m very happy with the result.
So, now you can order prints. That was the easy part.
Now I have to dedicate myself to the hard part. Marketing! If I want to sell photos, people have to know.
To the photo website >Exactly five years ago I posted an article called “108 free days”. I was still working as an employer but I was on leave for a while with the result of having 108 days on vacation – almost the whole winter!
Yesterday was the last day of a quite tough project I was working on since early August. Today is my first free day and – if I do not change my mind – the start of en even longer period of free time. 116 days I have time for travelling, taking pictures and – finally – writing and publishing an online shop for my photo website.
Hopefully the weather will improve. Instead of the forecasted 6 cm of new snow we had freezing fog today and the last weeks were hardly better.
This weather makes it easier to say goodbye. Today Annika and I will take the night train to Stockholm Arlanda and then fly to Munich where it’s for sure that we won’t have a white Christmas. But after the holidays, when I’m back and want to travel through Northern Norway, Swedish and Finnish Lapland I hope for better weather. And snow more like this:
I’m sitting in the bus to Umeå and the fog has turned into rain. But I don’t care the weather. (Hopefully the bus driver and other car drivers do!) Now it’s visiting family and friends that matters!
Since I probably won’t post anything anymore this year I’ll wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
See you next year – in 2020!
No, Skelleftehamn in the afternoon. The days are short and it’s only four days left until winter solstice. So the bay Kallholmsfjärden is pitch black anyway – or better said, it would if it weren’t for Rönnskär, the industrial peninsula.