Wedding Photography in Dominican Republic.
“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.” Jodi Picoult
Borrowed the quote above from @pagep on Instagram. If you haven’t seen that feed, check it out
As mentioned in yesterday’s post I visited Dominican Republic last week. During the trip we played four courses, Casa de Campo (Teeth of the Dog), Punta Espada Cap Cana and Corales; and they are all truly amazing! This short “photo guide” is from Corales, which is an amazing course! The finish, the layout and the atmosphere are great, and the views are truly spectacular. If it were all about finish, this IS the best course I’ve ever played.
The course is quite young compared to others, but I guess with names like Oscar De La Renta and Julio Iglesias as partners, and designed by Tom Fazio the possibilities for great economy and resources are all there. If you have the chance to play this course, don’t miss it!
The camera used for taking these photos is a Sony RX-100.
External link to the golf course: Corales Golf
Since we tried to maximize our days we always started early. Rise and shine between four and five (this day at five), pick up breakfast in the lobby and then going straight to the club. This day started a little different when we met two other cars in OUR lane on the Highway. It all went well, but I guess we all were quite awake after that.
When entering the golf course we were greeted by an amazing sunrise.
On hole 1 and 2 it were all about focus to try to get the game going. I didn’t play good golf during the day, but the views almost me forget about it completely. This is a photo from hole 3, with the green in the background.
There is always time for some Photo-nerd stuff 🙂
Hole 7 – A Par 5 towards the Sea, with some spectacular views when entering the green. This is a view towards tee, after the tee-shot
…and towards the green (this photo is a bit blurry)
Some trouble on the way (same hole)
Breathtaking views from tee shots 8 and 9. This is at 8. Click on the image to see all the details. Spectacular view!
From fairway hole 9, towards green hole 8
Fairway Hole 10 – Not much to complain about here
Hole 11 – A lengthy Par 3. 265 yards from back tee! Glad we didn’t play it from that tee that day. Amazing nature around the hole!
Mushrooms on the 12
Towards green 13
Fairway on 17. Can it be better?
Fairway on 18. After the tee-shot, towards the tee. How brave are you?
To summarize the day. One of the best courses I’ve ever played.
I’ve spent the last week in Dominican Republic for work, but also got time for some joyous moment in that incredible environment.
I still have some problems in getting good Lightroom-quality for smaller pics, so click on the image for better result.
This is a truly awesome collection of beautiful photos of abandoned places around the globe. Click on any of the images to go to the full album.
During the time of this blog I’ve now and then written reviews about best photo apps for iPhone / iPad. Some of the apps have been about the editing part, while others have been filter apps and so on. There haven’t been one app that has it all.
Now we’re close to that; the new version of Photo Toaster brings together almost all of my apps into one.
The apps that I’ve used most frequent has been Photoshop Express, for reducing noise, and handling levels like exposure, temp, tint, saturation and so on. 645 Pro for B/W. Snapseed and Photo Editor for harder effects and so on. All these features are now available in one single app – Photo Toaster.
Even though I think that Photoshop Express still is better at reducing the noise, Photo Toaster is “good enough”, and I guess I can say that about all those features. The benefit of keeping all of those features into one app is higher than the workflow of using several apps.
And on the topic of workflow. I really like that shortcut to the “recent edits”. Great small feature which saves a lot of time.
The app is currently priced at $2.99 and I think that it may be your best $2.99 investment at the moment.
Since my on/off button is broken which leaves my out of an easy way to take screen dumps, I’ve just attached the app’s own preview.
Best wishes for Saturday
A good comparison between the iPhone 5S and the Nexus 5. There is a part in the beginning that’s about the speed of the processor, but after that it’s a good comparison between the cameras.
(Found on Feber, source: iTwe4kz on youtube)
…about the greatness of our “home”, the earth.
The video starts at 0:45
This clip is a great mix of so many skills! Awesome bike stunts by the athlete Danny MacAskill (artist name I suppose 🙂 ), great artistry in bringing a toy world to the real world, great footage and to wrap it up… great music, “Houston” with Runaway.
For those interested in Photography, don’t miss out on the behind the scenes clip (link at the end of the video)
Enjoy!
This great song and music-video is filmed with a Nikon D7100 and a Nikon D800.
Great footage with pretty standard DSLR:s, or what do you think? To get a “behind the scenes” footage, click here
Stockholms Museum of Photography – Fotografiska – currently holds an exhibition with Art Wolfe. This exhibition is about animals hiding in nature, and I must say that in some of the photos I haven’t even found them yet!
Interesting technology / Kickstarter-project for Light Painting
Releasedate 5:th of November
More info here
This is a really great and spooky collection of photos. Not in the “just a scary shot”-category, but in a more photographic / arty way.
Happy haunting
This is a quite an amazing footage by Ole C. Salomonsen, of the “Hurtigrutt”; a cruise line located on the shores of the Norwegian Cost.
For more information about Ole and his work, visit:
I’ve previously posted a link to Paul Caddens amazing photorealistic art.
Here you find some more of those amazing artists that can make their art look like amazing photos.
Enjoy
Two examples. Link to full article at the bottom
During the last days almost all the major brands have released new camera models. What they all have in common is that the size of the camera houses are getting significantly smaller.
Sony released the tiny A7 with full frame sensor, and yet changeable lenses. A camera that I think looks really interesting. Review here
Panasonic released their GX7. Once again, a tiny camera with a really impressive specification. In this case a Micro Four Third sensor. Full review here
Also Nikon release a new model of their smallest DSLR, the D5300. Now with WiFi, GPS and enhanced ISO-performance.
They all have one thing in common, the demand for smaller cameras are increasing. Can you imagine watching a photographer in the year of 2020 with a 40 cm lens? Neither can I.
What I think may drive the camera manufacturers might be the increasing quality in our everyday smartphones. For every day they are getting more and more traction, and I guess the smallest pocket cameras have a really tough battle to fight against the phones.
If you haven’t seen any images from the new iPhone 5S, that is one of the opponents of the traditional pocket cameras, I can recommend this good article.
This is a repost, but I think this quote is helpful when I sometimes face tough decisions.
It’s so easy to worry for things that are out of our control. Today many people worry about the new economic times, some are worrying about their kids and maybe some are walking away from great new possibilities – a great new life, just because of worry.
I think this quote is good to think about when I’m struggling with a decision, both in my personal and professional life, or just being in a worrying mode.
“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”
– E. Joseph Cossman
This last weekend we had marvelous weather here in Sweden. Blue Skies, 12-16 degrees and bright autumn colors everywhere. Unfortunately there seems to be some problem with my camera at the moment, so I only got out a few that I think came out well.
I hope you all get a great start of the week.
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