Jan Erik Moström

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 😁

I'm happy to say that I've been out with a camera several times this week, and as usual it has been a mixture of different kinds of photos.
The first photo is from work, my task here was to capture some photos from a small event involving mainly Ph.D. students. The events are usually quite boring (from a photography perspective) so I tried to capture some events not directly related to the presentations

I also took a few lunch walks trying to find something interesting.

And at home

The common theme for these photos is that I've been trying to push my edits. I'm not especially good at editing, but I want to become better. For these photos I've tried to go further in my edits than I usually do, and it looks like I like darker, saturated edits.

I also went out into the forest to see if I could find something "mundane". I first tried some stronger edits

I hope you see the horse I found!! I then dialed back on the editing and made some more "normal" edits.

So a mix of photos and editing styles. I've learned a few things, found a few places to return to, and most interesting is that I went back to a place I've photographed several times before without any decent results. This time was different, in editing I converted the photo to black & white, and this could work. But I need a more interesting sky.