Pictures

Using LED lamps to heighten your photo»

I was shooting some photo on my wifes new tulips and got the idea to place an LED lamp inside the tulips and let that be the only light. ISO was therefor quite high around 800 so the photo was quite grainy. I edit it with G’Mic and Gimp using Anisotropic Smoothing. You will find [...]

Pictures

Photo your food»

Writing a little about photograph the food. I think many are trying to make it a little too advanced. It is difficult to photograph the food if you really want to get it good. I think that it is often smarter to ensure that something happens on your photo, as in the picture, where someone [...]

Pictures

Using an old Lens to create a new photo»

Creating a new picture using an old lens. This is taken with my OM Macro 50mm/3.8 and is a quite useful lens with the E-3. The composition let the eye stuck on the bokeh creating a gradient contrast to the sharpness of the motif. You eye will lead towards the gradient though you want to [...]

Camera and equipment

Canon 50mm: 1.8 – good sharpness with cheap lenses»

My second camera is Canon and i have it borrowed out to my brother. Taking photos show that a new world opens up with the fixed lens at 50mm: 1.8 and I have been a little hard to see why they insist on passing a crude zoom lens with startup packages. I can take [...]

Camera and equipment

Build a light table for product photos with tray from Ikea»

Build a light table so that you get information from below you can easily fix with the plate “Smula” (15 S Krona) from Ikea. There are those who use Ikea laundry bag as photo tent, which works fine. Previously I have written about how easy it is to build a small light tent. Now I [...]

Camera and equipment

How do you clean your lenses? Vodka?»

What are you using to clean your lenses? After reading about the use of Vodka from Justin Low, I took and searched around for alternatives. Remember that you always follow the advice on the Internet at their own risk and it is probably a good idea to check this stuff both one and two times [...]

Photo Editing

Scoble interviews Marc Levoy about the future of photo processing»

This is an old interview but its nice to have in mind that digital photo and editing is always developing. Even though you should stay clear of being to technical and think more of the picture than having the right equipment.
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Robert Scoble interviews [...]

Photo Editing

Aviary have been set free for you to start editing online»

Aviary is an online editing service that now is free to use. They have taken a step forward to make the service greater and for you to use online. I think they are having difficulties with lots of competers like Fotoflexer, Pixlr and at least Photoshop. All want a piece of the cake.
Aviary are taking [...]

Photo Editing

Making you own photo to an Andy Warhol»

Use Gimp and G’mic to warholize your own photo. I took my photo and used the filters in G’mic to make it like this. Using G’Mic is both fun and can be useful. I use it both to get rid of noise and sharpen my images, but of course you can have fun with alot [...]

Photography

DSLR Tips – a site for beginners in digital SLR»

DSLR Tips is a site for people who just bought a digital SLR and want to learn the basics. It is really the basics for beginners. It is Gordon Laing from Camera Labs, which are in hand and it bodes well for the future. There are few good beginner’s pages. I recommend you also that [...]

Photography

Food photographer Edward Cownas says …»

Photo food is a difficult art, and it includes a lot of which you may not think of. In this movie gives you a quick insight into Edward Cownas everyday as food photographer.

Photography

Focus on something when you photo nature»

When I am out and shooting in nature so I usually try to find a focus that I can concentrate on. One day I was out and took a long trip in Tyresta (english version) . Today’s focus had to be fungi and they do adapt to their environment and weather conditions. I think that [...]

Photo Services

How do get your free pictures on the blog?»

You can always use the Creative Commons search to find images that you may use. I’ve also a page where you can find more pictures for free even some public domain. You may not actually use the images you find through Google’s image search anyway. They are Copyrighted.

Foto: wstryder

You will of course also get the [...]

Photo Services

Publish your photobook with Issuu to help your photography»

You start your photography carrier with almost nothing. Two empty hands and a camera. There is ways to help you out starting a photoblog is one. There is service that can help you as a photographer or artist.
You start publishing something with help of Open Office that is open source and free. You save [...]

Photo Services

Scrapbooking – as a webservice for you´re use Scrapblog»

Scrapblog is a Web service, but I feel like any program you have on your computer. It is easy to create your work. You can choose to use a ready-made theme or start with a blank page. There are lots of functions and features to make your pages like that Web 2.0-controlling, or if you [...]

Miscellaneous

Why you should start shooting in Raw instead of jpg?»

Why should you fuss with using Raw format? There are a few compact cameras with Raw otherwise it is most SLRs, which use it. There are several reasons to use raw format, but there are also reasons to use .jpg . You have to ask yourself what you value most in your photography and what [...]

Miscellaneous

How to use the site Photo and pictures»

I though it would be helpful to describe the site and help you get the most out of Photo and pictures. The first might be obvious to everyone the featured post is often the first you come to. There is also a random post down in the magazine that let you easy search the site [...]

Miscellaneous

Make a magic photocube this weekend»

Make magazine have as a weekend project a magically photo cube. Its easy to make and probably be your pride on your desktop. You surely find more weekends project that may just up your ally. Don’t let your photos sit useless on your harddrive. Let them work on your desktop instead or why not do [...]