Edward Karlsen photography

A useless creation

2012-10-15T13:55:00.001-07:00

Hello! I took some portraits of a teacher. When I organized the lamps for the shot I saw something I found interesting. I don't know if everyone loves it. But I did. Please take a look and also visit my Flickr account if you find it interesting!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zystemphoto/

Regards.

Blitz and a reflector

New "firm" witch school class

2012-09-24T10:49:00.001-07:00

Hello world!
The last weeks my class and me have worked a lot with a commercial business called Media Box.
http://www.facebook.com/mediaboxthvs

We do a lot of different work, the page is Norwegian, mostly because we're supposed to make local users happy with us. Please take a look, like and give feedback if you have something relevant to say! :)

The logo of our firm! :)

Long time gone, took a shot of GF

2012-06-07T05:55:00.001-07:00

Hey again!
I just browsed some photos ivve taken of my GF and edited a few of them, my favourite one is this!

I edited it in a "old fashoin" black and white, with high contrasts and a lot of noise.
It fits perfect in this shot, of a sorry girl who sits there and thinks over life.

Please tell me your oppinion :)
Edward

Took a shot to the skyes!

2012-05-16T03:45:00.001-07:00

Hey guys! I just thought I could share something with you.
I took a shot to the skyes today and was really happy with the interesting result.

I just edited a little in camera raw as exposure and blacks.
Also I cropped it to 3:5. 3:5 is one of the harmonical crops we have.
Other can be 5:8 or 8:13

What do you think of this shot? Is it a little interesting? Have a nice day

50mm test shots!

2012-05-14T02:13:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! I recently tested my new 50mm lens! I didden't come up with a lot of pictures for you, but I have choosen 3 of those I took. Well to be honest only the one in the middle is taken with the 50mm. The two others are taken with my sigma 17-70 lens. Since I'm living kinda outside town on the country its not hard to find beautiful nature. You know Norway has beatiful nature :)

I have started saving money for the Canon 70-200mm 2.8 with or without IS. Not sure if I need IS yet, but wish me luck with the saving, going to take a while...

As you see on the 50mm shot the depth of field is awesome!
Shot on f:1.8. I've heard that this lens struggels with the fokus on 1.8, but I'm not sure if my lens has that problem.

If you have any ideas to something I can do different that would be very nice. Thanks for reading my posts

Well anyways this is my ressults! Hope you like them :)

Canon EF 50mm 1.8!

2012-05-10T13:43:00.001-07:00

Hey guys!
Finally I have bought Canons cheap version of the 50mm, the 1.8 version!
On the internet I have been reading a lot of tests of this lens, and many concludes that this is slow on the focus and not always as sharp as its supposed to be. But I have another opinion! I think the lens rocks!
Even though it's cheap doesn't mean it sucks, almost everyone that I know with this interest has this lens. The 1.4 version is probably allot better but I don't think I need that yet anyways:)

I haven't been photographing a lot lately because of work so I don't really have any good pictures that I have taken with the 50mm... yet. But Ill try soon to take some time and use it for just photo!

High res. pic from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canon_EF_50mm_18_II.JPG

Thanks for reading and Ill blog again soon! Hopefully as soon as possible, I'm dying to test my lens for real!

Designing a stand !

2012-05-08T03:45:00.001-07:00

Hello! Today I got a task at school, again! We were supposed to design a stand for a product. I choosed ferrari, don't know why but ferrari is cool as damn. Also after that 3 walled stand, we had to make a "roll up" that should be 2 meters high as the 3 walled stand.
Ferrari Berlinetta was the car I choosed, with a little thing as keyring Ill get the costumers attention!
Also if you buy this keyring your in the random choosing of some people who can try the car at Nurburghring track for free!

So here's my ressult!

Hope you liked it, and if you have some improval tips, then tips me! :)

Rock and water!

2012-05-07T04:58:00.002-07:00

Hello guys!
Some days ago I went to the beach with a friend and shoot this!

Im actually happy with it my self. I cropped it 1-1 because recently Ivve been addicted to 1-1 crops.
Black and white because it really looked wierd with colours...

This was not the longest post, but anyways what do you guys think about it?

Ill blog again soon!

Shots from the scout competition! And a sad news

2012-05-03T04:28:00.004-07:00

Hello again!
I just did some edditing on the shots from this weekend, and made a little series of it!
It's the secound scout thingy I have made and I like doing this!

My old patrol was placed 2'nd! And thats pretty awesome! Last year I placed 4'th!
Also all the patrols from my group was placed good enough for NM, norwegian championship!

We had a lot of fun during the weekend! When the kids did the competition the leaders (me) had some time to play volleyball, eat and sleep:)

This is some pictures from the competition and the fun:

Also, in the patrol that won... The patrol leader died in hospital this sunday. Rest in peace, you will be missed.

Tulipaner for sale!

2012-05-03T03:44:00.003-07:00

Hey guys! For the first time Im forced to put something on my blog... A wierd flower add for papers or websites. A local flowershop is advertising with 17.may pricecut (Norwegian nationalday) on tulips!

We used Indesign to make the design and make a small file PDF then opened the PDF in PS to save for web and devises.

This is the ressult! The pink area that you can see through was needed for this task.

Well, Im gonna blog again soon!

Long time! Been busy working and scouting!

2012-04-27T07:07:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! I haven't got the time to blog for a whole week now... And I can't do it this weekend either... Because I'm going to a scouting competition this weekend! I'll be one of those who sits on the posts and check how the different teams is doing their part.
The reason I'm telling you this is because I'll try my best to take some photos this weekend! I dont really know how much time I'll have, but I will try!

It's a long time since my last post, thats because I have been so busy working and preparing for this trip we're having this weekend.

Thought I could share some photos from earlier scout trips with you!

This is a little taste of what scouting is about! Not nearby the half of it, but still something!

So I will see what I can take of pictures this weekend, check out agian sunday night! I'll also tell you with place our scout groups managed to take! Have a good weekend! :)

Mathilde lightleak portrait!

2012-04-21T06:23:00.000-07:00

Hey fellas!
Since I'm at my girlfriend this weekend I tried out a portrait of her. I don't know if any of you has struggeled with photos of girls before? But if you haven't you will have a hard time getting them happy with the ressult, just sayin!

I tried out something called light leak, I have never done that before, but my ressult was impressing I think.
This site : http://abduzeedo.com/photoshop-quick-tips-light-leaks-photography-video showed my an easy and good way to do this! He tells you all you need to know and have a video tutourial where he showes you! Check him out :)

So anyways! This is my ressult, what do you think? :)

She's the perfect girlfriend to be honest.

Well, I'll post again tomorrow!

HIgh speed water droplets!

2012-04-20T08:56:00.001-07:00

Hey again guys!

Today I thought I could show you how to take pictures of water droplets falling into water.
So, probably you have seen this a thousand times from young photographers. This is one of them thousand.

What you do:
-Get a bowl of water.
-Hang a little something filled with water over the bowl.
-Make a tiny hole in the the little something filled with water. Use something small as a needle
-Use a pen for example and put exactly where the drops fall.

-Have a long shutter speed and use a handheld blitz to lighten the drops while they fall down.

Ofcourse you can use backgrounds to get different colours and so, but I did it the easy way.

This is my ressults!

Nr.1 Two drops

Nr.2 One high

Well, I hope you liked my little inspirational post here! Thanks for reading and I'll post again tomorrow.

Kid portrait!

2012-04-19T13:59:00.001-07:00

Hello!

I just did some editing on some photos I took this weekend. Of my stepfather's kid, my step brother.
It's really not easy to take photos of kids, theyre just so fokused of everything else, really hard to capture the moment! But I did my best and I hope you like it!

You know, how hard it is to get someone so young to be consentrated of helping you out if you have a big DSLR aming at them.
So I actually found some good stuff to help me with this on the web, something on this site is pretty obvious but a lot was helping me!:
http://www.photoble.com/photography-tips-tricks/10-tips-on-how-to-photograph-children

Well, this is my ressult! Hope you liked it.

My step little brother. Charming kid with his first tooth lost.

I'll blog again tommorrow, good night!

The hand!

2012-04-19T00:09:00.000-07:00

Hey guys!

I tried some black and white photographying! This is mainly a shot of my own hand, but also a lot of work!
I used my 30D and speedlite to take this. I used my wardrobe which is totally white and perfect as a location for my own hand.

If anyone wonders, I use handlotion everyday, morning and night.
So just take a look at this picture!

This is my hand! What do you think?

So tell me what you think? I'll post some more tomorrow! :)

Long exposure in Sandefjord!

2012-04-18T01:12:00.000-07:00

Hello guys!
I shot a long exposure on a bridge over Sandefjord's biggest road!
I'm really happy with the ressult! I really recommend to shoot like this! It's really easy and everyone can do it!

All you have to do is getting a tripod and maybe a remote controll for your camera. Set up and select bulb, sometimes you can do it with 30"... But i often use bulb and remote.
After you have taken a few shots, and failed with the exposure a coupple of times the fun starts and cool pictures comes!

Try this your self, you dont need a expensive DSLR, you can do it with one that costs half of the 7D.

So take a look at this:

Long exposure, over the road at night!

Hope you liked my picture! I'll post some more tomorrow.

Photatofari!

2012-04-17T13:39:00.002-07:00

Hey guys!
A dude, who does the same kind of thing as me called Photatofari.blogspot.com, you should check him out! He has some cool photos!

This is just some of them! :

3D animated text

Pro on HDR

Long exposure in PTF!

2012-04-17T06:33:00.001-07:00

Hey guys!
Today Im going to show you one of my favourites! Thats a long exposure shot!
This gives me a really wierd old feeling, a little bit frightening.

This photo was taken with high ISO with purpose to get this old time feeling over it! I really things this works.
I used really long exposure here, it was so very dark.

This photo is taken in Mølen, Larvik, Norway. If someone lives nearby you should take a visit, really beautiful place!

One of my favourite photos from my PTF project!

Tomorow I will post a picture that is really simple but also cool, atleast I think so! Its out of balance

New logo !

2012-04-16T01:09:00.001-07:00

Hello friends!

Yeah, so today I have worked with the logo for my blog! And I really liked the ressult! I used a long time on that camera in the logo, just sayin!

Ofcourse we make our logos in Adobe Illustrator!
The logo's "name" is Edward Karlsen photography, even though I do other things sometimes! But mostly photo so thats why :)

Check it out!

Maybe I post some more if it gets any better, please say your oppinion!

Fun with water and balloons!

2012-04-15T12:13:00.003-07:00

Hey! Im going to show you a photo I took i while ago! I'ts a balloon filled with water that gets caught in the moment it breaks by a sharp needle! This is called high speed photography!

I filled the balloon with water, then I hang it up in the roof in the studio, with a fishing line! Then a sat up the camera on the tripod. When everything was set and done with the fokus, I used a long exposure. About 2 secounds. I used the speedlite to flash the balloon in the perfect moment at the same time as it got broken by the needle! Since the room was dark it was no other light in the picture than the blitz flash!
You have to try this! It takes a lot of tries but totaly worth it!

This picture is also in my PTF project!

Tomorrow im going to work with a logo, for this blog! Edward Karlsen photography is the "name" of this blog! I'll post my favourite logo from tomorrow sometime at school! So please check again tomorrow to see if you like it!

Food colour sky!

2012-04-14T09:25:00.002-07:00

Hey! Today I took a new picture for my PTF project, with a friend. For you who did not read the start of my blog PTF is a project I have at school, about photography, my theme is water and trying to catch water in so many different ways as possible!
Since water is my theme I thought I could try some food colour skyes in water in a bowl of glass.

I have simply filled up a glass bowl with water and set up a background what was white. Fokused in the middle of the bowl and lightened up the background with a hard blitz and lightened the colour spreading in the water with a soft blitz.
I used Canon EOS 7D, Speedlite 340 EX, Sigma 17-70 to take this photo! :)

Smoke in the water.

Im gonna blog again tomorow, then you can read about high speed photography!

Advertising photography!

2012-04-13T02:08:00.002-07:00

Hey again! I thougt I could show you a picture i took a while ago! This was though as a advertising photo.
I placed the bottle in the from and the box in the back to get the box defused. I have an nice wardobe at home thats all white inside, perfect for adphotos!
This is thought for a poster or something for Ralph Lauren, I got the white space for text or logo!

Ralph Lauren perfume

Thanks for reading! Keep checking for more posts!

Pictures from my PTF from earlier this year

2012-04-12T01:00:00.003-07:00

This is a couple of pictures that is in my PTF! As I wrote last my theme is water and to capture it in different ways! So heres to of kinda the same thing! Water droplets!

I can fast tell you about the gear I used when I took these photos!
I have a Canon EOS 7D, Sigma 17-70, Speedlite 430 EX II and some other things. But i used a Canon EOS 30D as i used couple of weeks ago!

If someone have something to say about my photos or blog just do it!
Take a look!

This is candey reflecting in waterdroplets

Droplets on a straw, in great morning light

Thanks for reading! :)

First post on this blog!

2012-04-11T08:57:00.003-07:00

This is my first post on this blog!
I'll post things I make at school, mostly pictures! But also other things i make!

As I said you can expect mostly pictures, because at the school Im going to media and communication we have an PTF project, that is a subject you get deepen in. Obviously I have photo! My theme is water, trying to show water from many different angles! This is my first year at Thor Heyerdahl school in Larvik, Norway

Here's a picture i took some weeks ago, I sent it to a papers photocompetition and I got most thumbs up and most votes! So I won 5 cinema tickets!

This is also in my PTF, water as life

Thanks for reading this post, I'll blog again tomorow!