Evil Eye
Local camera club bought some old background canvases. We were finishing the installation and took some test pictures. I usually make backgrounds in Photoshop and even though we had background ready this time I ended up colouring it.
 
3rd Taichung International Exhibition of Photography
This seems to be award delivery week since Salon Bronze for “Broken” and HMs for “The Individual” and “Looking at the Moon” also arrived.
 
Welsh International Salon
Highly Commented award for Peeks came from Wales, GB.
 
1st International Salon of Photography “MNE OPEN 2013”
Salon Bronze for Men from Montenegro.
 
How Much Can You Crop?
Nowadays cameras have high megapixel sensors and you can crop images pretty heavily and still get usable images. In Nikon D800 you can shoot in DX mode (APS-C mode) and get 15.4MPix images. If your target is web you can go even further and ‘digitally zoom’ to only small part of the image.
 
50000 views
Jetpack statistics show that my blog has over 50000 views. Country list shows 149 rows so views have come from all over the world.
 
Separated
One for the theme ‘separated’. I used boom and magic arm to raise the camera to the ceiling. Magic arm was used so I could level the camera. Flashes were used without any modifiers and I used walls and ceiling to bounce light. Room was too small (well it might have been big enough but...
 
Worldwide Photo Walk
Worldwide Photo Walk was once again in Kuopio. This time I wanted to go light on carrying so I only took Fuji X-E1 with 35mm lens with me. Again camera proved to be solid performer and I think I got home with some nice shots.
 
Taking a Dump
…or as we Finnish call it “Paskalla”. There is an underlying theme of corporate power and money coming first, everything else second. But I think there is still much humour in the pictures. Water tank of our toilet seat was leaking and had to be replaced. I saved the old seat and thought that it...