As some of you have found out I’m a quite heavy user of using my phone as a camera, but this was a true surprise. Seamus McGarvey, the man behind the movie “The Avengers” now reveals that some shots in the movie actually was made with… an Iphone!
This is a beautiful video project of John Mayer’s Assassin. In my opinion there’s as much to see in the video as to find in the song.
Hope you enjoy it!
Found this excellent collection of Macro shots thru Twitter. Truly amazing pics!
Previously I’ve posted a pic from the castle where we stayed one year ago. The occasion was some close friends wedding, and what a wedding it was! This photo is taken just outside the castle towards the lake.
I need to go back there sometime and relieve the atmosphere! Can really recommend Ireland if you haven’t been there yet!
After a busy weekend where I almost haven’t had the time to hardly sit down, Sunday was all the opposite. Took a walk at one of Stockholms Castles, Drottningsholms Slott. Unfortunately in the amazing weather I forgot my DSLR, but I took a number of pictures anyway with my phone.
Hope you all have a great ending of this (at least in Sweden) beautiful weekend!
My idea behind this photo was to portrait the difference between the different stages in life – the two girls eating, and the woman and the man sitting on the bench – are in.
I tried to use a different composition where I kept the pole as a separator between the two couples.
Maybe you have tried to capture a golf swing or fast flying object with your mobile cam. I guess you sometimes missed that opportunity due to the (compared to your DSLR) slow camera.
Burst mode is an app that takes multiple shots and you can then choose which one’s you wanna save. Quite handy sometimes.
The app used to cost $2 but now it’s free (for a limited time?). A little app to try out during your weekend walk? (Btw, do you notice the slight optical illusion on the right pic?)
Link to App store – Burst mode
The last few days this blog has been almost all about iPhone and the new iOS5, and almost nothing about photography so I guess it’s time to go back to normal again.
Winter is soon here in Sweden and today we almost had 0 degrees celsius when I woke up. So I thought a picture from a few months ago would help to keep us warm.
This pic is from an amazing summer night in early August. The night was warm, the sky was blue and the sounds from people cheering and toasting was all there. In short, a perfect summer night.
Hope you’ll have a great day.
So, the first 24 hours with the new iOS is coming to an end. At first it seemed to be a lot of struggling but I must say it’s an impressive upgrade! At one hand you hardly can’t see the difference, but on the other hand it’s so much functionality bundled together with your everyday use of the phone that I think it’s hard to go back to the old version.
The main benefits in my opinion so far:
On the negative side I can think of two main things to complain (a little) about:
Attached to this post you’ll find two links to other blogs that talks about how you can prepare for taking those shots that you have waited for.
and…
http://www.photozz.com/fizz/21261993.aspx
Since I’m not a pilot (and never will be) I can hardly understand how they can land in these conditions, I’ve always been fascinated by cross-wind landings. There are numerous videos out there with scenes from some really amazing landings and this is a good collection (if you turn the music off).
I’m really happy that I wasn’t onboard….
Day after upgrading to Apple iOS5; my experiences so far:
After the first 12 hours after upgrading my conclusion it that I would’ve waited a few days to upgrade if I wasn’t REALLY interested in just get some experience with the new iOS and I didn’t mind struggling a bit to get there. I still haven’t succeeded in upgrading my iPad (still get an error message at the end of the upgrade process). I guess I will end up deleting it and then reinstall from my backup. UPDATE: Earlier this morning I finally (3:rd attempt) got things to work (maybe this was due to installing the Lion upgrade before?!) and it works great. The problem with the apps, like I had on the iPhone I’ve on the iPad aswell. Apart from that everything now works fine and I also think that the performance is back.
Tonight was the night when the final release of iOS5 was about to be released. With a cup of coffee in my hand I eagerly waited for the upgrade to reveal itself in iTunes, and suddenly, there it was.
I’m a quite heavy user so my phone is stuffed with things, so I was prepared for a pretty long, timewise, upgrade. After a little more than 1 hour I was finished.
My initial reactions so far:
– I notice a slight decrease in speed performance due to the heavier OS but I’m not sure yet whether this is because I still have a lot of things to handle before everything’s up or if it just me searching for differences
– The upgrade process was pretty sleek, no bigger worries but on my iPad I’m actually still struggling. Keeps getting an upgrade error. But as always with Apple products it’s just to start all over again
– iCloud really feels like a bigger thing than I initially thought it would be. It’s actually pretty nice to have all your photos (for instance) instantly uploaded to your iPad and iMac when you have taken them
– I’ve always had some problems with “me.com” but now when the services are all pulled together, it seems like those problems have been resolved with the iCloud-solution
– The biggest problem I’ve had so far is that a large portion of my 400 app’s (yes I know it’s a little bit weird) doesn’t get installed so I need to manually press the “iCloud”-button to install those that aren’t there already. With the iCloud-button i mean the service that Apple released during the summer where all your apps are synced between your iTunes-account, your phone and iPad. Quite neat and it works perfectly. Even though the service works perfectly it’s quite time consuming to enter that button, go to the screen where the icon is, go back to iTunes and click the next one.. and do this for all my apps.
– The new reminder-app seems really good at first glance. Haven’t for obvious reasons been able to try it so much yet.
If you’ve upgraded and wan’t to share your thought’s I’m really curious about how things went.
When I was in my late teens one of my favourite artists was Richard Marx. Today I stumbled over some new songs from him. Corny, yes! But it sure reminds me about “those days back then”…
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
Quote by – Walt Whitman
It is still beautiful to feel the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body – Tomas Tranströmer
This looks truly amazing! Adobe demonstrates a new function for deblurring a blurred image, in the next release of Adobe Photoshop. Think about all the pictures you’ve taken that now can be saved. This looks really interesting!
If you’re into Nature Photography maybe this competition can be something for you. If you aren’t interested in competing you’ll probably like this site anyway.. there are some truly amazing pics there (scroll down a bit on the linked page).
Keane – Everybody’s changing
iExposure
If you’re new to shooting in PASM-mode, you probably are interested in getting the right manual values for your shutter-speed, aperture and so on and at the same time learn how these things work together.
With this app you will get a great introduction to all of that and also get som handy tips for different conditions. The app usually costs $1 but is now free.
Börjar mer och mer upptäcka Tomas Tranströmer, årets Nobelpristagare i litteratur. Har tidigare år haft svårt för att uppskatta pristagarna som jag ofta upplevt som alltför pretentiösa; med Tomas Tranströmer är det tvärtom.
Läste det här citat av honom som jag tyckte passade bra med en bild jag tog i Milano i Januari i år.
“Den här kvinnan köper och köper saker för att kasta i gapet på tomrummen som smyger bakom henne.”
Kommer uppdatera med källhänvisningar senare idag.
So, after a great weekend a new week is here again. I’ll continue to try to bring some famous words for each day but I’ll guess it will be harder for each day to find good famous words. Do you have a favourite wording that you’d like to share together with one of my pictures (maybe you also have an idea what the picture should look like), don’t hesitate to send it to me.
Hope you have a great start on this week.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
(c) Pedro Hansson – Nikon D7000 – 35 mm
Did Apple just introduce their “light” model due to the fact that Steve Jobs just had days left? I don’t think that it’s impossible.
Apple is one of the Worlds best companies when it comes to marketing and PR and it wasn’t hard to predict that the sad news about Jobs would outstand the news around the new model. At the same time the new CEO really needs something to “deliver” to get him moving in his new role.
So… I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ll see the new iPhone around Christmas time (or before) when the sad news about Jobs have calmed down a little.
Just a thought…
I’m not sure whether or not I will be able to deliver this every week-day (especially since I’ll try to combine the words with my own pictures), but I’ll try.
Hope you’ll have a great day!
(c) Pedro Hansson – pic taken at home
World Press Photo have gathered over 100.000 pictures and now sorted out 160 of them to a show in one of Stockholms Shopping Malls, Gallerian. Among those they have also picked some winners and I must say they are impressive!
After the jump you’ll find the best pictures in each class.
National Geography has put together what they belive to be the best picnic spots in the world. My personal favourite of the listed places… Haleakala National Park, Hawaii. What a sky! Which one is yours?
I’m not sure whether or not I will be able to deliver this every day (especially since I’ll try to combine the words with my own pictures), but I’ll try.
Hope you’ll have a great day!
Saarimner.com 