White balance is a common problem for the amateur photographer. The modern camera can often focus and even expose photos quite correctly, but white balance i still something you can’t completely trust the camera to do if you want perfect results. So what is white balance? Well to put it simple, it’s the temperature of the photo. The scale goes from blue to red much like your water tap, and the temperature is messured in kelvin. A cold...

Shooting small birds in cold weather is always a challenge. Today was especially hard due to bad light, and lots of disturbance. I live along a rather busy street with lots of people passing quite close to the feeders. My iPhone shut it self of and even the birds seemed a bit frozen, but the 1d Mark III didn’t miss a beat, although the view finder fogged up repeatedly. After 35 minutes I gave up because of the bad light and slow shutter...

This is a very discussed topic among photographers and the funny thing is, It’s impossible to contact Facebook to get clarification. Well, in this post I will be voicing my interpretation of these terms and why I believe them to be correct. First of all, the terms I will discuss is the copyright of photos, art, apps etc. as it’s the part I care for most. Facebook’s terms of agreement are easily found if you scroll to the...

After a four day workshop with Canon Ambassadeur Brutus Östling in Lauvsnes Norway, we are back in Umeå with quite a few ideas and a lot of inspiration. The whole workshop was a fantastic experience with eagle-photography as main goal. That meant early mornings and days spent in hiding. Shooting from a hide is a must if you want to get really close to eagles although it also work’s really well for smaller birds. You have to be fairly...

Exposure part 2: This time we are going to focus on noise and high ISO shooting. Our human eyes are fantastic and can perceive details in pretty low light adjusting automatically  (of course nothing like a cat or an owls’s). The camera however will need help. Shooting in little or almost no light is quite a challenge for most cameras (except perhaps for the Canon 1Dx, or Nikon D4, which are ridiculously good). What ever camera you have...