Jan Erik Moström

Photos were taken this week, but they were mostly for others. Our department had its graduation ceremony and I was asked to take a few photos for posting to LinkedIn etc. My instructions were to make it hard to identify individuals but show the ceremony. The room where the ceremony takes place isn't the best for photography, so my choices were limited.

I was also went my martial arts club and took a few photos at the graduation tests there. At least some people were happy.

My problem with this location is the color cast, the lighting used to be three different color temperatures but now it's only two. But another problem is the color reflected from the walls and the floor (red, black and green). As you can see, there is red tone in the photo above ... but I was too lazy to fix it.

While I've been walking around trying to find something interesting the number of decent photographs is very low, one to be more precise. I'm hoping for better results next week.

I was definitely in a B&W mood last week. I mainly walked around without a plan, snapping photos of anything in sight. The vast majority was deleted at once.

As you can see I used a "hard B&W" look, I do like when black is actually black, it also works well in the middle of the day. Later in the week I had to go to Lycksele, and I of course brought a camera with me. When I was done with the things I was supposed to do, it took 5 minutes, I walked to "Gammplatsen" and took a few photos. And then back home again.

The week started with a portrait session. There were 10–15 people who needed headshots of themselves. One that came out really well, is of a young boy. He got really surprised when the flash went off, and I managed to catch him with his eyes wide open and a very surprised expression. I made a print and gave it to him and his mother a couple of days later, and both had a good laugh when they saw it.

I’ve taken less photos this week than last week, but I’m still trying to push my edits. Some of the photos below are definitely overdone, but I find it useful to do these experiments.

I’m trying to figure out what kind of edits that give me results I like. Most of my photos this week were taken using my phone, I also attempted to edit in some apps that I don’t usually use: Photometer, Pixelmator Pro, and Darkroom.

During the I walked around a bit, both lunch walks in town and in the village.

This photo isn’t that interesting in itself, but I’ve never used B&W before and that it looks better than in color came as a surprise. I have to remember that.

I liked the texture, but I would like to push my edits even further so that the texture becomes even more apparent.

I just thought this bench looked nice

I’ve always found old abandoned buildings/things fascinating. It’s both fascinating to think about how things were used, but also how they were made. Visually, I like the different patterns and textures that you can see, it’s beautiful.

As you see, I tended to go for B&W for most of the photos. Currently, I’m trying to train myself to see things, and then try to capture of photo of it, and using B&W makes this easier in my opinion. And yes, I’m attempting to find ordinary things to see if I can make them interesting.

This is a photo that frustrates me, I found the light and the contrast fascinating, but unfortunately, I wasn’t able to catch this in a photo. I can’t really figure out what didn’t work … but this means that I have something to think about 😁