Last year, I got some nice photos of the wonderful Copenhagen Pride Parade. So this year I had planned to do it even better. Unfortunately, I did not have time to go through with my intended project, but I still managed to take some photos at the parade. Hopefully I also learned something from last year, being:
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Me and my girlfriend have just been on the week long “Nordic Fjords” cruise with Costa Cruises. I took lots of pictures (obviously), some are already in my flickr feed in the set Costa Cruise Fjordspotting.
More of that to come, but I wanted to dedicate this post to panorama photography. I shot some panorama material, not much that turned out OK, but this one is pretty neat. The dynamic range was huge, so I shot with bracketing in order to be able to do some HDR cheating afterwards. But back with my laptop on the boat, I found out that I did not need to combine the exposures anyways – the middle one was perfect. I prefer to do my stitching in PTGui, but my PTGui beta version did not wanna run, and just told me that I needed to upgrade – pretty frustrating when you have no Internet access. So the job was given to Adobe Photoshop CS3, which did an amazing job.
8 shots, 18mm, 1/3200 sec, ƒ/5.6. Final result is 13456*3890px.
Post processing: Sharpen, crop and some S-curves with masks on sky and select parts of the snow.
As I wrote in my previous post, I was to the Copenhagen Carneval 2009, which took place last weekend. I finally sat down and went through all the photos to find some gems. The photos shown here are taken with D300 and either 85mm AF or 105mm AF VR. Enjoy!
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I must say that the Copenhagen Carnival Parade counts as a real parade! The ear-threatening music and the hot sun contributed well to the devoted dancers in colourful clothing, when I watched the parade this saturday.
I took lots of photos, some incorrectly exposed, some out of focus, but lots of them pretty OK. Christopher, a colleague told me to start doing manual exposure, but I did not dare because I wanted to be able to seize the moment. However I can see from my result that it is just as high a risk to let the D300 measure the light. (That’s my experience at least, maybe if I go for spot measurement I could learn to do it more precisely.) Next time manual exposure. Promise!
Now I will sort again among the >1000 pictures to find some good ones to post. As Homestar would put it – Booowing. But you get a teaser in the meantime. One of the over-exposed shots, which I actually think turned out pretty cool.
Copenhagen Zombie Crawl 2009: I brought the D300, 50mm/1.4 and SB-900 and hoped that I wouldn’t get too much fake blood on them.
