Happy Holidays and a Happy 2012

And again we're here, Christmas!

I'd like to wish my followers and friends a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2012.

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Simon Carter, you're the man!

Did some browsing tonight and found this fantastic behind the scenes video of rock climbing photographer Simon Carter.

This is some impressive stuff. This guy has some nerves of steel. Really opened my eyes to how much work you need to put in to get some fantastic results.

Really enjoyed the part where he talked about his rope setup that enables him to adjust his position while hanging way up in the air. I'm totally gobsmacked by this.

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Time to print

The sad thing about digital photography is that your local photo store is starting to loose business. I remember the excitement when you went down to the store to pick up your newly developed slides or negatives, fun times, and some times expensive times.

But, one by one the traditional photo store that focused on developing film have gone belly-up. That is true for my hometown also. The last shop closed it's doors this fall.

So what to do?

Well, the answer is easy; hand over a lot of cash and start printing yourself, and I mean, real printing, and real big.

Since early summer I've been working with the Epson Stylus Pro 7890, a beast of a printer. It is an amazing beast, it's fast, super quiet, and the print quality is awesome to say the least. This is way more printer than one really need. But hey, it's a fun process to be envolved with, and a first as well. I love it!

So now all my printing is done by yours truly. I use it for album prints and big prints.

I use Lighroom for everything photo related. So it was quite natural to implement Lightroom in the printing workflow. First thing I did when starting to print proper prints (after initial trial and error) was to make a printing template in Lightroom. The template shown below I use to print normal album prints for albums that I keep in my living room.

This is how it prints, pretty happy with this.

And of course we need to print big as well. Here is some pictures from wonderful Norway. From left you see Gjuratinden and Mardalsfossen, both which are located in Nesset. Printed on 24x30 Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl glossy paper. Awesome results. These two where shot with a Nikon D200 and the AF-S 70-200 f2.8 VR lens.

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Kicking it back...

Allrighty!, it's time to relax for a few days. Work tomorrow is just a few hours, and after that I'll relax and enjoy Christmas.

Got an early 'gift' from B&H Photo Video today. Nothing is like a good book for Christmas.

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Gel's for small speedlights, Part Deux

Back in October 2010 I did a small post on cutting your Roscolux gels to fit the SB-900. I actually put some effort into it back then and made a simple template for the SB-900 that I'd use to cut the gel sheets into the proper size so that the filters would fit the SB-900 perfectly. But obviously the year that has passed brought with it some technological advances.

I am now aware of that with the launch of the Nikon SB-910, Nikon actually made the tungsten and fluorescent  filters in hard plastic, so no more fiddling with the CTO sheet and filter holder, you just snap on the hard plastic filter, BAM!, all set. Brilliant, and I guess you could add a CTO filter if you'd like to push more colour into your exposure. Wonder how that would work, hm.

Anyway, this is what it looks like by itself.

And here it is mounted on the SB-910, it looks awesome (that's the geek talking).

Obviously this filter thing is what I'm buying (among other things), maybe even a SB-910, and a huge octa-thingy.

The one thing that bothers me a bit about the SB-910 though is that it still has IR control for CLS, this should be radio now I think. That is the future. But hey, I guess it is an awesome flash anyway. :)

More to come I guess.