Heavy rain, Lake Hörken

July 17th, 2008 Peter Korkala

On my way to Grängesberg today I drived  by Lake Hörken. It was raining very much at the moment, so I didn’t want to step out of the car. The picture is taken from inside the car (yes, I stopped at a safe place first).

Here’s a photo I took a couple of minutes ago (about 10:30pm), when I was walking one of our two dogs. It’s not perfect in any way, the sky is overexponated and the trees to the left are unsharp. But it will serve as a first photo taken in the dusk. I will have to practice more, and probably bring the tripod (but not when I’m walking the dog). And as you see the weather got better during the evening.

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Panned photos

July 16th, 2008 Peter Korkala

I tried an interesting technique with my new camera today: panning.

My old camera was too slow to manage this, but the EOS 450 is able to take 3.5 photos/sec and that’s really good. A lot of the photos were blurred all over, but some of them were pretty good (photos linked from my Swedish blog):

1/80, F11, ISO200, 25 mm

The same photo, but I cropped it down a bit:

Another one:

1/80, F7.1, ISO200, 51 mm

And the last one for today:

1/125, F7.1, ISO200, 42 mm.

I almost filled up my 2 GB card today - lucky me that I ordered a 8 GB SDHC yesterday! The files are very big, between 15-20 MB each (I’m saving them in RAW-format), and my 2 GB card can only hold around 120 photos. The new 8 GB card can hold between 550 and 600 RAW-photos, and with the 2 GB card as a backup in my (new!) photobag I think it’ll be enough - but you’ll never know…

I have a lot to learn about the camera, but it’s very fun! And I love the thought of getting additional lenses some day. I would love to have a 300 mm zoom lens, and a wide angle lens (maybe 10-15 mm). And then I would like to have a very light sensitive lens to take photos of the moon and the stars, but they’re very expensive.

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PhotoHunt

June 12th, 2008 Peter Korkala

Today I saw this PhotoHunt thing on Tokyo-Toms website. It sounds fun, and I may participate in the next one (on Saturday).

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Anholt from a plane

April 13th, 2008 Peter Korkala

I took this photo when my plane from Stockholm to Amsterdam passed the Danish island Anholt between Denmark and Sweden:

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