The gamla stan (old town) of Stockholm is a very interesting place, especially at night. The old cobblestone streets are narrow, cold yet cosy, and deserted. A few confused backpackers like myself, some Swedes hard at work navigating to the right place to party, and… well, solitude. It was just me and my camera, and a whole lot of freedom, as I was sitting on a bench in front of the royal palace, pondering anything and everything, and smoking a fine cigar.
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Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 13:07. 3 comments
I’ve posted a photo topic everyday since Monday, and today will be no different. (Although tomorrow probably will, I can’t afford to spoil you like this. :-P I’m just emptying my photo buffer.)
This was one fine evening out with Jana, though she probably wouldn’t agree — although I was planning to explain everything to her, and make her as involved as possible, it turned out that I had a lot on my plate as it were. Perhaps because it was my first time out with a tripod, I kept tweaking it all the time, while trying to find optimal manual settings for each shot, including the white balance and other pleasantries, so I paid too much attention to all that stuff which likely bored her to death. :-/ Not to mention the timed triggers and repeating some shots multiple times. Sadly, I am a mere man, and real multitasking is something I have yet to learn.
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Posted 1 year, 9 months ago at 23:01. 3 comments
Long time, no photos! Well, I didn’t have too many excuses to go out and shoot recently. However, Ignis Brunensis changed that, so I borrowed a tripod and tried to give it my best shot. As I never photographed fireworks before, and lacked a remote trigger, I am not entirely satisfied, but hey, they are not entirely bad and at least I have learned some lessons for next time.
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Posted 1 year, 9 months ago at 18:58. Add a comment
, (My dearest Obu is advised not to read this one. ;-))
Photography. Greek for the words “light” and “write”. Thus, it comes as a little surprise, that it gets rather tough at night, since there generally is so little light to “write”. This becomes especially difficult if you do not have a tripod, and have to shoot those atrociously long shutter times hand-held. Still being at the honeymoon stage, I took my Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 for a walk. It did not particularly surprise me, that the cannon made it possible to shoot decent pictures at night as well.
The Bean. Famous and often visited, it was a real pain to get this shot off without people standing all around the place. :-) Sometimes the picture itself doesn’t look blurred, but merely soft. Alas, there is no recipe for sharp pictures with long shutter times, other than tedious trial-and-error, or a tripod. This shot would have been much nicer if it was sharper:
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Posted 2 years, 5 months ago at 22:50. 3 comments
