Various photos
I generally try to gather photos according to some kind of theme, but.. except maybe for two of these, it was tricky to make something out of it, so I just bunch them all together..

Taken at various times the last couple of days, when out walking..



I shot several photos, trying to get the maze of trees and shadows, without getting a completely noisy backdrop as well, which is tricky since it's a small thing in the middle of the city, with streets, houses, a square etc surrounding it... Even if I generally like it, there's so many wishes too. It would have been nicer if the shadows had been darker, but it was tricky to get that without losing all details.. Always the compromises..




This is a, fairly, small statue that stands in the middle of the city, and I've tried getting some images of it every now and then, but never really figured out a good way of shooting it. I'm far from happy with this, but I think I'm on the right track, which of course make me slightly satisfied with it. I both hate and love the background. It's an ugly background, but unless I go out one night and move the statue, I guess I have to live with that (It would have been better, actually, if the statue had been turned another way). The good thing is that the sign, if not entirely visible, says "Handelsbanken" (not gonna translate that.. it's the name of a bank, but Handel means market), and the statue shows a man showing off a horse at some horse market, trying to convince the customer how good the horse is. I guess.. with my next attempt, I'll move slightly to the left (now I was concentrating too much of getting the eye of the seller), and still get only "Handel" of the sign. Maybe with shorter depth of focus as well.




I don't know how many shots I did of this.. Trying to get it "right".. A couple with extremly short depth of focus, some with focus only on the statue with the church a blur in the background, some with the church in focus etc. The main problem was that the statue is in the middle of the trees and completely in the shadow, while the church is entirely in the sunlight, meaning that if I wanted the statue to be ok, the church was widely overexposed, or the other way around. Some Dogde and Burn helped out, trying to get a balance. For sure an image that would've been helped by having my Polarazing filter with me.




Nothing much to say about this. I like the way you have some mistiness in the image. Make it feel cold.




The Baptist Church, which actually is next to that little statue of the Horse seller, and I did went and shot this before I shot the statue. Already when I did take this image, I knew I wanted it in Black & White. I was lacking a longer zoom. Not entirely sure if making it closer had been better, but it would have been nice to have some options.
And.. Geez how hard it is to not feel stupid while photographing. It feels like everybody passing is staring at you, wondering what the heck you're doing etc. And at times I feel like turning to a lot of people explaining what I'm doing, describing exactly what I'm trying to photograph and why etc. What I imagine the photo to look like.. All that.. I so hate being the center of attention!!




Well.. winter.. Almost fairy tale winter, even if it's in the middle of modern houses etc, but I think this comes close to showing the beauty I see in winter. How cozy it looks, when there's a lot of snow embedding everything, shrinking areas etc..
I'm not sure if I actually enhanced this feeling or not.. The image looked more or less as it does now, but I guess I wanted a slightly more.. "fairy tale" sense, so I added some noise to the image, as well as some Diffuse filter on the bright areas, which gives that slightl painted look to it (if you look closely).