Restarting Photography

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  • Tilt Lens Photography: Enhancing Composition with Selective Blurring

    After spending time practicing my photography skills, Here I reflect on employing the Tilt lens to blur backgrounds and highlight subjects. Although challenging, I practice how selective blurring can enhance a scene or story when used in moderation. This lens allows for capturing different perspectives at the same location and demands more time and preparation…

  • Perspective and Golden Ratio – Photographic walks with a topic

    I have earlier been practicing specific skills during walks with focus on one technique at a time, aiming for one skill per outing. This reflection covers the use of perspective and the golden ratio, with examples and analysis of photographs taken with a Nikon Z6 camera and Nikkor Z 24-200/4-6.3 VR lens. I describe challenges,…

  • Trying out my new Nikkor Z 24-200/4-6.3 VR

    So, this is the final lens for restarting. I wanted to have a general purpose, sufficiantly sensitive wide range zoom that should be quick enough for street photography. Here are some pictures from my first two walks with it. It was a beautiful day, so I wanted to have a subject with both deep shadow…

  • Trying out the TTArtisan 50mm Tilt on the Z6

    I got my next lens, recently. The quite affordable Tilt lens from TTArtisan. I’ve been interested in trying out Tilt photography for quite a while now. Both for miniature effect, but even more for selective focus and adding even more diffusion in portraits. So since this lens is quite affordable, I got my hands on…

  • Revisit my old work – Stockholm Light: Yellow

    This is a quick view in one of my older projects. I made these pictures almost 25 years ago, fully analogue, no digital editing. I had just moved to the city of Stockholm and set up a project to take at least one night time stroll a month with camera and tri-pod. It was quite…

  • Testing the 40mm / 2 lens

    I am still in the process of testing my new gear, taking the camera with me and taking a number of test shots. Sooner or later, I will be going on more dedicated photo-walks. Actually looking forward to plan my shots for a long while and maybe even taking my tri-pod with me. I have…

  • Compare JPG versus RAW / Testing my new gear

    Now I got the opportunity to take my new camera for a test drive. I didn’t have a lot of time, but I managed to find some situations where I could test different aspects of their performance. I need to keep in mind, that I am still shooting with a DX (APS-C) lens on a…

  • Revisit my old work – Contrast

    As a part of getting back into photyography, I want to revisit som older pictures of mine. I want to try to have fresh look at them and reason about what I like about them, their composition ans so on. This will be an ongoing series with 2 – 4 images each around different topics.…

  • Got a new (used) Nikon Z6

    After deciding what camera I would want to check, I found some interesting offers on a secondhand site. There I found a kit consisting of I was okay with the price, so now I have a new camera. One of my old UV filters fitted the zoom, so now I need to go shopping for…

  • Training my eyes and perspective

    Even if I have not selected new gear yet, I can still try to rekindle my passion for photography. One thing is that I am sure I need to work on my ability to see perspectives, colors and images woth shooting. But that can easily be done using my phone. Even if the results probably…