29Oct/100
Interview on Somethingwelike.com
"What do you think about the Internet and how it is affecting our lifestyle?
The internet is my only source of living, promotion, getting out there. It’s the absolute most vital piece of gear I have to work with."
A while back, I was contacted by the person in charge of the photo/graphics blog somethingwelike.com and asked to do an interview.
Today, this interview was released, and if I wasn't me, I would read it - it some quite interesting questions in it.
9Oct/100
Video: Understanding sync speed with studio lights
Surfing the web has proven to be good idea time and time again for me at least.
My latest discovery is these very well executed videos on photography. Do yourself a favour and watch it.
7Oct/100
Video tutorial: Portrait of Kasper Købke
Earlier this summer I did a photo shoot with danish upcoming artist Kasper Købke, an amazing artist who does drawings in huge proportions as you can see HERE.
A reader of the blog asked me how I did this specific image in the postprocessing, so I decided to show it in this walkthrough video - enjoy:
link to HD version
1Oct/101
Photoshop: selection and extraction techniques
Photoshop can be used for many things regarding retouching and image optimization, but when it comes to photo manipulations, extracting parts of images and making composites plays quite a big role.
As with everything in photoshop, there are many ways to make selections and do background extractions.
You might know the old extraction tool which has been excluded in cs 4 and 5.
You might know magic wand tool and it's successor quick selection tool.
But there are also things like color range - using channels - background eraser tool.
Here's a quite useful link going in-depth with the different ways to make selections and extract along with guides to the specific tools used.
27Sep/100
How to instruct your model
Photography is not only equipment, exposure and framing. When shooting people, it's also about interaction between you and the subject - it's about psychology and it's about those little tips to make it all go a bit smoother. I've done some teaching on the subject, but I still get inspired and learn new stuff when i stumble over videoes like these.
First we have danish Yuri Acurs - the world renown stock photographer:
And Erin Manning:
15Sep/100
When Photoshop teases
I found this website some days ago and instantly remembered how many times I've sat with Photoshop and not understanding WHY the cursor was a Hand all the time, or WHY I couldn't paint on the selected layer.
What Laurie McCanna has done, is to give quick answers to all of those things We all trip over while using Photoshop.
Enjoy her words of wisom right HERE
28Aug/100
Wikipedia of Photography and Photoshop
I guess it's not all true to call this site the Wikipedia of Photography and Photoshop, but looking down the list of guides on countless subjects regarding Photoshop and Photography, I almost feel inclined to rename it to that - the freaking Wikipedia of said.
Where you might ask? Right Here.
23Aug/100
Database of useful stuff for Photoshop and Photography
I rediscovered StumbleUpon a few days ago, and I stumbled upen this fantastic place which has a very extensive database of useful information about photography and Photoshop.
There are small articles explaining everything from Levels to sharpening to making panorama shots.
12Aug/100
Stock lens flares – from me to you
Have you ever been sitting editing a photo and all you needed was that final lense flare in the glasses to make the image PERFECT?
Well, so have I, and for ages I've used flare brushes, but non of them seem to do it that great.
So I decided to make stock lenses which I and everyone else are free to use as they please.
Below you can see an example, and it's quite easy to make your own if you have a flash.
What i did was to place it my livingroom (daytime) turned up my aperture to around f20 (to get the starlike shape) and shot some images with the room darkened through camera settings.
If you did it correct, you'll end up with a shot like this one (I've added some contrast to my final images).
Now to use them in photoshop - import them to an image and set the blending mode of this layer to SCREEN in order to exclude all the black.
Download the Flare Pack
5Aug/101
DIY – the steadycam Copenhagen style
Yesterday I met Michael Rygaard for the first time, and today we initiated a DIY (Do it yourself) project together. We had talked a bit about cheap modifiers for the canon 5d mk2 so that the HD video could be utilized more effecient, and this morning I got back from workout to a facebook message saying - I've looked around the internet - wanna build this? Since I had nothing else planned today, I said, hell yeah.
4 hours later and a bargain at a keymakers shop which ended with us buying them beer for letting us use some of their tools, we had ourselves a Steadycam. Michael has it every second week.
The mount for the camera
Stabilizing weight.
This is the project we got inspired by - thanks to david for reminding me to post this.
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