Terje's World trough the lens

I love experimenting with long exposures, sometimes I fail misserably, sometimes it all turns out decent.
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Here are some new photos from another one of my favorite locations.
This location is a place called “Store Erte” a lake in Halden/Norway.

I only recently started visiting this location, but quickly felled in love with it; There is so much to choose from on this location.
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I have been out allot lately and have shot allot of pictures.
Today i was on one of my alltime favorite locations; Dusabukta (Dusa Bay) in Sarpsborg/Norway.
This place is very close to where I spent all of my summers in my youth and I have many good memories from this location, so out I went.

The weather today was exceptional, sun and only -2 Celsius. There was no wind at all and for once no humidity so I brought my fishing gear, photo gear, video camera and my dog and had a lovely time outdoors.

Here are some of todays shots
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A take on life during a season-depression.

The pictures in this album are processed differently from what I usually do, and might from a technical point of view give a pro photographer nightmares related to the post-processing. Some of the images are ether overexposed or underexposed or processed in a way that makes some details go away.

I am trying to tell the story of life and decay in a dark and contrasty way and maybe even a bit depressing way.
I want to tell the story how everything can reflect life.

I’m not even sure I like all of these pictures my selves as I usually go for the more colorful and hopeful pictures, but here it is, my look on life and decay during a small season-depression.
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Ever wished you could learn what Aperture, Shutter and ISO does for your pictures in an easy and illustrated way?

Do you want to learn it the easy way, without having to snap hundreds of shots in order to experience what different settings do?

Well, as they say “There’s an app for that” This time it’s a web app, and you can find it by clicking on the link
The SLR camera explained – SLR Photography Demystified.

Click around in the app, try to change the light to cloudy (top left), etc. And try to change aperture, shutter and iso to really see and experience what the various settings do. This app has learned me allot.

Check out this very nice guide for a post-process of a portrait.
The guide is made by Glyn Dewis, a professional photographer who also writes/makes a lot of useful guides.

Grunge Effect Part 2: Editing Walk Through

FRIDAY, JULY 30, 2010 POSTED IN MISC. ARTICLES, TECHNIQUE, WALK THROUGH, WORKSHOP

Following on from my ‘Grunge in 8 Simple Steps‘ video and post, I got the feeling from some of the feedback that a ‘walk though’ of the tutorial which would go hand in hand with the video would be useful; so, in this post I’ve done exactly that…a ‘walk through’ of each of the 8 steps to edit ‘The Bearded Guy’:

via Grunge Effect Part 2: Editing Walk Through » Glyn Dewis Blog.

Today has been a day of experimentation.

I have been out, experimenting with various filters, light settings and exposure settings.
I had a goal to do stuff that I rarely do, somethings worked well, but other things didn’t work at all, finally some shots did not turn out any differently than they use to do, even with completely different settings on manual. Anyway, here are some of the shots.
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Quick-tip number 1. Video Guides.

Today I would like to tip you about A.J. Wood’s excellent video guides that have thought me a lot of useful stuff for post-processing.

He is very active and releases new guides all the time.

Here is an introduction to A.J. Wood from the about page at http://ajwood.com

As the President of Media Cats, Inc., A.J. Wood has been ranked the #1 Adobe Instructor WORLDWIDE more than once. In 2009, he was selected to join the ranks of recognized Adobe Community Professionals (formerly known as Adobe Community Experts). A.J. is best known for his straightforward teaching style, and ability to communicate ideas in the simplest of terms.

via About — A.J. Wood – The Adobe Wan.

Make sure to check out he’s excellent video guides, I my self subscribe to he’s YouTube Channel, make sure to do so if you like he’s guides.

Story #1

This is the first article of something I have been thinking about doing for a little while.
The idea is to tell the story of what went on behind some selected shots.
The first picture to get the story told is a shot of the river Tista in Halden/Norway.

When I decided to take this shot it had been raining allot in south of Norway for days, if not weeks. As a consequence there was issued a flood warning for south of Norway; This is nothing new for most parts of Norway as floods are something that happens every 5-10 years or so, sometimes more often, sometimes less often, and sometimes nothing serious while other times with great consequences to both lives and property.
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All next week I will make daily posts about a week-long project starting Monday October 3.

I am constantly trying to evolve as an amateur photographer, and are always searching ways to learn. There are ways that you can train the way you think and plan when you are shooting pictures. There are known mantras you can follow to get better results, as Robert Capa once said, “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” This is true, think about it, if your picture is un-sharp, blurry, full of noise or have to little detail to make out the scene then chances are that you simply are not close enough to the scene you are trying to capture.
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