Life in colours

Posted on 2011-10-22 by Jon Leirdal

Fotovideo is one of the better photography shops in Norway. Among maybe having the largest selection of photography accessories, they also arrange workshops and training in everything photography. On Thursday they arranged a quick intro to macro photography with one of their instructors, Roger Brendhagen. I was lucky enough to get one of the spots available. We started with a quick intro and tips and tricks before we went to Oslo Reptilpark (a small zoo specializing in snakes, lizards and other slightly scary creatures.

As usual I mainly add photos to this blog, so below you will find some of my attempts at nature photography.

Life in colours

Redbeard

Tasting the world

Climbing the glass window

Not that big, but big enough

Not a tiger

Textured colours

Slick texture

Textured in brown

Posted from Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Summer on the west coast of Norway

Posted on 2011-07-20 by Jon Leirdal

Earlier this summer NRK had one of the most talked about live shows ever in Norway. They had a Minute by Minute live stream while a ship sailed from Bergen to Kirkenes (5 days of sailing). The stream is available here.
Some of the areas that had a lot of interest was Geiranger and the fjords of Norway. We recently drove trough that area and I got a few nice pictures.

Geiranger in summer sun

Waterfall in Geiranger

Geiranger

Rindal is part of Trollheimen (one of several mountain areas in Norway)

Summer in Rindal

In addition to this I have been playing around with my macro lens and capturing some of the wildlife in Rindalen.

Spying spider

Bumble bee

Bumble bee 2

Posted from Møre og Romsdal, Norway.

Grater macro images

Posted on 2011-02-21 by Jon Leirdal

During the weekend I was playing around with cameras, flash-lights, reflectors and a lot of other things. Part of my experimenting happened while using a ring flash and macro lens. I had a lot of fun taking these images. I am not sure if you will enjoy them as much, but hey, it’s my blog.

Macro of grater

Macro of grater - into the sun

The painful side of the grater

Raindrops keep falling

Posted on 2009-05-07 by Jon Leirdal

Raindrops on my umbrella

It has been quite mixed weather in Oslo today. It rained in the morning, then we had a few hours with beautiful sunshine. Then some thunder and lightning with heavy rain. And now the sun shines again. Kind of weird.
On my way to work I took a few pictures of my umbrella using my Canon G9 camera. I converted them to grayscale and then to duotone with a dark blue colour. There is another picture here.

Macro images

Posted on 2009-03-23 by Jon Leirdal

Test of 100mm macro lens

I recently purchased a 100mm macro lens for my camera. I’ve not been able to test it in a great scale yet, but watch this space when life starts popping up outdoors in the next few weeks. While we are waiting you might like to have a look at these two as well. Leaf 2, leaf 3 (with extension ring).