My girl friend makes these small toy figures (they are a combination of man and animal). She sends them out into the world with people she knows, I had a couple of them with me on My recent trip to Utah, USA. Where I made a bunch of photos, this one is from Archers National Park.
Find out more about the figures on her website (it’s in Danish) here: www.lisastroander.dk
Another one from My miniature photo fun day.
Came back from Germany yesterday and tomorrow I’m heading for Jutland for three days to help out My younger brother, with a photo assignment, consisting of making photos of all the city zoo shops in the country. Gonna be a lot of fun.
Well, Today’s the day where I’m gonna have My very first photo exhibition, and it’s also the day of the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
And that’s what My exhibition is about, is all photos from the ghost town of Pripyat, a city that was built in the early 70ties for the people who worked on the power plant, in 1986 there where living around 43.000 people in the city, they where all evacuated three days after the disaster, never to return again.
This is one of the photos from the exhibition.
This is a 5 RAW exposure HDR made in Photomatrix, afterwards I did some adjustments in Photoshop, I toned down the green on the trees in the background, I also desaturated the photo quiet a bit, and added the brown/yellow tone with the OnOne PS Plugin.
Are you familiarized with a photo viewer called Xnview? If not I will incurred you to head over to their website and check it out – it’s FREE and pretty damn cool.
Walking around the streets of Rishikesh, India, I can by this man playing with a plastic toy camera (one of those cameras containing a few stills from around the world, you know like the “great wall” and “The Statue of Liberty” and so on) and of course I couldn’t resist make a photo of him.
I used the dodge tool to lighten he’s eyes a bit, and added sharpen, contrast and a slight crop in Photoshop.
A month ago I was at a concert with Yoav here in Denmark. have you ever heard of him? If not you should definitely go check him out, his this cool – and a bit nerdy – musician from London.
He’s music it really great, and I can only recommend him so much.
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The photo is from Bornholm (a small island in the Baltic sea, here’s another one from the same trip) I was there to do some work in spring 2007, but I also had some spare time that I spendt doing some photography around the island, it’s only 588 km2, So you’ll quickly get from one end to the other.
I can only recomend that if you plan on going to Bornholm, then do it in spring time cause that when it’s most beautyful, if you ask me.
This photo isen’t my best but I kind of like it anyway, I don’t know what it is…… maybe it’s the story behind the old used toy, I wonder how many kids have had the pleasure of playing with this little car.
The post process is very simple all done in Lightroom I added some contrast and a vignette, and finished of with a color adjustment, that’s it.
