Shutter-life|Adaptive photography and more, by Henrik Johansson

This is a shot from the Monterey Bay Aquarium with some sort of herring (I think). The fish tank was small and cylindrical in shape. The water inside the tank was made to rotate, simulating a current. This made the herring school to decrease the power needed to withstand the current.

As you can see in the original below, the shot is a bit blurry and the blue tones dominte heavily. I used a preset in Lightroom that mimics an IR effect, hence the heavy green tint. I also dropped the color temperature, increased the clarity and the saturation and played with the tone curve to increase the contrast. The blue tones was made a bit darker. All of these changes made the photo grainy but I think the grain works nice here. I cropped the photo heavily and also made a small rotation to induce more movement in the photo.

This is a yet another sunset photo. The lake is called Torasjärvi and it’s located in Lappland, Sweden, above the artic circle. At the shores of the lake is a remote old village that shares the name of the lake. Today, less than twenty people still live in the village. In the 1950s, the population was at least a couple of hundred. The father of one of my best friends was born in this village and they still owe the house that his family build when he was young. Today, they use it as a summer house. I visited the village in August and was immediately struck by the complete silence and serenity of the surroundings. I only stayed for two nights, but still felt completely rested when I left.

I will not dwell much into the post-processing of this photo, I applied the usual changes to saturation, contrast, clarity and color temperature. I will try to post a bit more often, at the expense of exhaustive descriptions of the post-processing. The post-processing posts will not dissapear, but they will become more infrequent.