Back into colour

Eerste sneeuw 2 2_, originally uploaded by Me (?).

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Test Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0

Yesterday I downloaded the 30 day trail of Adobe’s Lightroom 1.0 to give it a try.I have to say that the software is pretty good and it’s easy and intuitive too.
Perhaps the price is a bit too high, as 149€ (199$) is quite a lot for a software that does the same as other free [...]

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Agifold, English folding cameras (1,2 and 3)

I recently finnished a series of 3 articles in my new blog About Photography. The fact is that I wanted to try this iWeb thingy… it’s quite nice, so I will surely use it to publish some more stuff. Anyway, Blogger is much more convenient and creates lighter and faster loading blogs.
However, the important [...]

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Mamiya C220 1, maart 16, 2008

Mamiya C220 1, maart 16, 2008 Originally uploaded by Enric Martinez
My new “Godzilla”, the Mamiya C220.
I wanted to have another quality MF camera as a complement to the Kiev 88. This one, the C220 seemed quite appealing as it is relatively inexpensive (about 100€) and also relatively modern. [...]

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I am a noisy photographer

Originally uploaded by Enric Martinez
This is another preset, I called this Silver 02. The effect tries to suggest (more than imitate) antique silver oxide tinted prints (“sepia”), but I’m not trying to make them pass for old photos. The omnipresent iso-noise gives it a dream-likes (or [...]

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Lightroom 1.3 sharpening and noise removal

Spoorweg set 03 – misc 2 maart 06, 2008 Originally uploaded by Enric Martinez
I have been playing around a bit, testing how the noise reduction and sharpening functions in Lightroom 1.3. I specially wanted to know how the exported results look like.
On this I wanted [...]

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Unmounting the Moskva-5

Viewfinder prism
Finally I have had time to work on the Moskva-5. I was trying to figure out how the camera works, as I was unable to release the shutter, thus I thought that I was missing some point and was even going to write emails to all the [...]

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New Gear: Kiev 88

Kiev-88 -1 Originally uploaded by runlevel0
As I already commented, I am planning to jump to medium format. I have already the soviet cameras I bought: A Moskva-5 bellow camera for 6×9 format, a Lomo and the Kiev-88 a kind of Soviet copy of the Hasselblads.
I have [...]

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Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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On Style and setting targets

I have definitely to decide for a style.
U have already been touching most of the fields of photography, except portrait, which is something I still have to learn but for what I lack subjects.
I have a good hand with nature photography and I manage to get more or less appealing results with macro… But although [...]

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