Tor-Ivar Hals Photography » black and white http://torivarhals.com/blog The Tor-Ivar Hals Photo blog Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:44:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Monochrome Weekly // Portrait http://torivarhals.com/blog/2010/03/20/monochrome-weekly-portrait/ http://torivarhals.com/blog/2010/03/20/monochrome-weekly-portrait/#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:30:01 +0000 Tor-Ivar http://torivarhals.com/blog/?p=1191 The following post is a contribution to the Monochrome Weekly blog :) Enjoy!

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Just wanted to share one of the results from this little personal challenge :)

]]> http://torivarhals.com/blog/2010/02/07/personal-finding-new-ways/feed/ 1 Glowing in the golden hour… http://torivarhals.com/blog/2009/07/22/glowing-in-the-evening-sun/ http://torivarhals.com/blog/2009/07/22/glowing-in-the-evening-sun/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:08:43 +0000 Tor-Ivar http://torivarhals.com/blog/?p=736 henriette_resizedThis is a portrait of another great friend of mine. The photo was taken “by accident” at an restaurant we went to one evening in Spain this summer.
I think the natural evening sun gave her a really beautiful glow :)

Taken with Canon 5D, 85mm f1.8 at some relatively large aperture.

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"Mystic River" – Nidelva, Trondheim, originally uploaded by Tor-Ivar.

I took this shot during a short photo session in december. It was EXTREMELY cold, especially for photographing without any gloves :-) Drove down to Nidelva, the river flowing through Trondheim, my home town, and captured this one… The cold but dry weather made the river foggy.

I like the kind of mystic feel this picture have…

Taken with 450D and my lovely 70-200L f4 (it’s my sharpest lens… by far :-) )

The image is processed with Exposure 2 in Photoshop.

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