My photo on the cover of KFAK’s program

I’m a member of the Copenhagen based photo club KFAK (Københavns Fotografiska Amatør Klub). I was so lucky that my photo of an escalator at Copenhagen Central Station won the monthly competition of march 2009. KFAK has a nice habit of using the winning photos in their program brochure, which is now out for the autumn season, and mine made the cover! There are lots of great photos in this brochure, check it out. If you live in or outside Copenhagen you should learn about KFAK. It’s a nice photo club with lots of activities and competitions. It’s got its own dark room too.

And here’s the brochure, with my photo on the cover:

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Zombie competition – the results

Some of my readers remember my post-process competition “They’re coming!“. I was not sure if anyone would participate, but I am happy to announce that I’ve had 11 participants!

I’ve carefully and closely looked them through in order to give you a final verdict on which picture is the best. I’ve also tried to include a comment on what was good and what can be improved. Here are the results!
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UN Millennium Campaign publishes my photo

This is pretty neat. My photo of the US election followers has been included in a publication* by the organisation “UN Millennium Campaign”. Please see the URL at the bottom of this post.

Election counting followers
November 5, 2008 at Times Square, NYC.
McCain has just held a beautiful speech declaring Obama the winner of the election.

* Campaigning for the MDGs: Making Votes and Voices Count in Elections

Panorama of Geiranger, Norway

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.

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Panoramic view at Geiranger

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.

Photos from the Carneval!

Blue queen

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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