Filed Under (Uncategorized) by henrikj on 09-12-2011
Single shot, no HDR. Canon 17-40/4L at 17 mm on my venerable 5D Mk.I.
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by henrikj on 11-11-2011
In the photo, you can see the the lake Kongsvatnet (kings’s Lake/King’s Water) and Svolvaer, the main city on Lofoten.
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by henrikj on 15-10-2011
This is one of those images, an ordinary view from a hotel window in Atlanta that was transformed into something completely different.
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by henrikj on 11-10-2011
- I’m going out shooting. You want to join me?
- When, where? I’m having dinner right now.
- It’s a secret. I’m picking you up in half an hour.
- Ok.
Thirty minutes later, we’re heading out in his car. To be honest, I’m quite impressed with myself since I’ve both managed to gather all of my essential night shooting gear and to put on a couple of extra layers of clothing.
I’m expecting that we’re either heading out in the nature or to some for me unknown overlook. I’m completely wrong. We’re going to the new roundabout that the city just finished building.
I’ve passed the roundabout just a week before, but I only noticed a few stones. Now, the stones are lit by brightly colored lamps and there’s a fountain playing in the middle. And the moon is almost full.
In the photo below, I positioned the moon at the top of the fountain.
ISO100, 28 mm, f/10, 30s.

This May, I got the opportunity to visit Grand Teton National Park during a couple of days. The Teton Range is very impressive and I had really looked forward to photograph them. Unfortunately, we had bad luck with the weather. When it didn’t rain, the sky was usually covered with an uninspiring clouds.
We visited allthe usual places, including the Snake River Overlook made famous by Ansel Adams’ iconic shot “Tetons and the Snake River”. I made a number of shots at this classic location, but the bad light and the clouds resulted in a lot of rather photos.
Fast forward to the post-processing a few days ago. Although I thought it impossible to achieve something possible to show people,I opened up one of the shots and started playing in Lightroom. The light and the clouds made the choice to go black and white very easy. I more or less randomly started to change parameters since I didn’t know where to start working. Somehow I found that a very cold color temperature worked well for this shot, especially for the foreground. However, the clouds were to bright and contained very little detail. The same held true for the mountains. To remedy this, I used a graduated filter with a hefty negative exposure (1,5 steps) together with a reduction in the brightness. I also made general increase in the blackness and added some contrast. After these changes, a few areas lit by sunshine in mountains where to bright, making it necessary to use both the recovery slider and an adjustment brush to darken them. Finally, I added some fill light to bring out the details in the foreground and some clarity to give the whole image a bit more punch.
In my opinion, the resulting photo is quite good, especially when you consider the unprocessed RAW-file below.
