I love the little love story between father and son being expressed through these snapshots. I love the “casual” feeling… and the light that day gave the pictures an extra “snap”

Not sure if the expression on the little one in the lower right photo is caused by something really exciting… or if it’s just a yawn due to a boring photographer

This little ballerina had her first performance together with the rest of the girls in her dance group in front of more than 800 spectators in Olavshallen this weekend … it was a amazing experience, both for the little one and her parents! And being allowed to wear make-up seemed to make her day

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Just as we were wrapping up the studio session, Maria suggest we got out in the cold again… I think she wanted to get some kind of last shot with the sunset. It was quite cloudy, and it was almost getting dark… but utilizing my off-camera flash, shooting it into a studio umbrella, we managed to get this shot, that I think became kind of cool

Thanks to Erlend’s best man for being my human umbrella stand!

Maria and Erlend; I am really happy that I got the chance to photograph your wedding. And it was such a bliss getting to know you!

Hm.. is all this “reflection of my life” a result of getting older?

Below are some captures from their big day. Enjoy!

Q: How do you sharpen your images?

A: To me, sharpening is the last step of my photoshop editing workflow. There are lots of ways of doing sharpening in PS, but I prefer the High Pass Filter way of sharpening my images.

1: Open and edit your photo in Photoshop.
2: For simplicity in this tutorial, flatten your image (if you have several layers) by selecting menu “Layer” and “Flatten Image”
3: Create a copy of the background layer by e.g. dragging the background layer down to the “new layer” button, so that you end up having a copy of your background layer:

4: Select the new background copy layer, add High Pass Filter from menu “Filter” – “Other” – “High Pass”. Select a pixel radius where the underlying image BARELY can be shown, like in the example below, and select OK:



5: And here’s the trick; various blending-modes work with a “high passed” filtered layer. Personally I usually prefer “Linear Light” (see black ring in image below), but try out other blending modes like e.g. Overlay, Soft Light or Hard Light. Try it out and find out what you like If the sharpening effect is too harsh, reduce Opacity on the high passed layer.

6: And the final result might look like this:

Now you can try it out on your favorite image

More photos will come in a blog post later on.

Enjoy

This photo is taken in the afternoon, and the light from the setting sun is reflected from the mountain tops.