Landskrona Citadell Christmas 2023

Landskrona Citadell looking a bit Christmassy... had to get some photographs of course. 😎

 

Moonrise over Borstahusen

I tried to photograph the sunset over Denmark from Borstahusen yesterday but the sunset failed miserably to produce anything other than grey haze... however when I turned around and saw the moonrise in the opposite direction I was right chuffed!

Nikon D850, 70-300mm lens @ 170mm, hand held and edited in DXO PL 6.

Landskrona Harbour Area Photo Walkabout

 While I was photographing the church and town hall I also took a little walk around the area, so these are some of the other random pics I got on my evening walkabout. Everything looks good when photographed in the right light.

Landskrona Stadshuset (Town Hall)

The town hall in Landskrona is a fairly modern looking building from the mid 70's that just looks a bit out of place (at least to me) amongst the rest of the much older buildings surrounding it down at the harbour area. However on its own it is quite a nice looking design and of course it does look great at sunset and at night when it's lit up.

As in the previous post these were taken hand held with my D850 & 24-120mm VR combination, edited in the excellent DXO PL 6 software.

Sofia Albertina Church - Landskrona

 Really beautiful old church in the heart of Landskrona Sweden, worth a visit if you are ever in the area.

Taken with my Nikon D850 and 24-120mm lens, ISO 8000, low shutter speeds & hand held, VR on, first two at f8.0 and the last at f5.6, processed in DXO PL 6 and their excellent DeepPRIME XD software.

 

 

DXO Photolab 6 DeepPRIME XD

There was a time when I used to go out with my camera after sunset when the light is just magical and of course I would drag along a tripod to keep the camera steady while using longer shutter speeds and low ISO to get the cleanest photographs possible. Those days are now behind me.

With the Nikon D850 I can use higher ISO and combined with a vibration reduction lens still get sharp & reasonably clean photographs that are perfectly usable. It really sets me free to move about as I please and get the shots I need quicker and more efficiently. However when needed I can also step up to ISO 8000 which under closer scrutiny can be quite noisy anyway, still usable but at 100% viewing size it lacks quite a bit. However the folks at DXO have solved this problem.

The following photo was taken under very low light conditions, hand held. It is sharp, nicely exposed & at normal viewing sizes it is very usable. But if I wanted to print it out at a larger size it would not be as clean as I would like. But now DXO Photolab 6 DeepPRIME XD has revolutionized how I shoot, I am free to shoot at very high ISO and still end up with a clean image to print.

First up the original, resized to use online and looking quite good. The next photo though is a 100% crop in the center of the full size image and as you can see it is very noisy. The second is a 100% crop on the DeepPRIME XD cleaned up image. It is sharp, clean and hasn't lost any detail. Very impressive result. The last photo is the full photo, cleaned up and resized to the same size as the first, uncleaned photo.

Make up your own minds but I am going to keep shooting this way because it really works for me. Well done DXO!

 

Oh, and I think that may be a drone above the church. Never even saw it at the time.

Kruger National Park 13-08-2023 (sunset)

 Sunset on day seven: 

Kruger National Park 11-08-2023 (sunset)

 Sunset on day five:

Kruger National Park 10-08-2023 (sunset)

 Sunset on day four:

Kruger National Park 08-08-2023 (sunrise)

 ...and so day two of our Kruger National Park adventure got under way in spectacular fashion.

Kruger National Park 07-08-2023 (sunset)

 Who can resist an African sunset? Not this guy! I moved around a bit and took several.

Sunsets with a telephoto lens are fantastic for zooming in and picking out details in a landscape as well as filling the sensor with those great sunset colours.

Sunset over the Öresund

Sunset Friday 27-01-2023.

Nikon D750 with 50mm f1.8G attached. All hand held, f8.0, highlight-weighted metering, auto iso, edited in RawTherapee on Ubuntu Linux.

Landskrona Energi Building

 The rather eye-catching Landskrona Energi building photographed at night with my Nikon D750 and the very handy 24-120mm lens, handheld at 24mm, iso3200, 1/200s, f5.6 and -1ev. The photo is clean, sharp and has great colour & contrast. Certainly a very capable camera and lens combination.

Street Art in Helsingborg Sweden

Taken early morning in Helsingborg with my trusty Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II and the incredible M.Zuiko 17mm f1.8 lens.

D750 - Shooting in the Dark

 On my early morning walk to work today there was a little mist about and I decided to shoot a few pics. I am not claiming that any of these are any good artistically but what struck me is how good the D750 shoots in the dark at high ISO's. I could get much better results using a tripod and low ISO's but who has time for that on the way to work? 😊

All these were taken hand held, manual mode, 1/40s, f4.0 & ISO3200 and the lens was my spectacular Nikkor 50mm f1.8G "nifty fifty". I ran these briefly through DXO Photolab 3 and these are the results.

Stockholm Old Town

Stockholm Old Town (Gamla Stan) Olympus E-M5 Mk2 & M.Zuiko ED 12-40 f2.8 Pro @ ISO800, 12mm, f2.8, 1/13s, -0.7ev, hand held.

Harbour in Landskrona

Hotel Öresund to the left & boats parked outside.

Nikon D750, Nikkor 50mm f1.8G. Handheld.

Landskrona Stadshuset (cityhall)

One more from my walk Friday evening with my camera and the fantastic Nikon 50mm f1.8G lens. I put that lens on my camera about a year ago and I like it so much I haven't bothered to remove it. It's a lot more versatile than one would imagine and the image quality is simply wonderful!

Small Boat Harbour, Landskrona

Took a little walk with my camera and favourite nifty fifty lens yesterday evening.

Sculpture and Watertower, Landskrona

Took a little walk with my camera and favourite nifty fifty lens yesterday evening.